Please meet Lisa Aiken, who brings her very eclectic background and love of Israel into her tour guiding. She has been a licensed Israeli tour guide since 2004, is a part-time clinical psychologist who does individual and couples therapy, and is a renowned speaker on Jewish topics who has given lectures…
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Ido Garfinkel
Please meet Ido Garfinkel – Tour Guide Living area: Talpiot, Jerusalem Mobile: +972-54-7323488 Email: idogarfinkel@hotmail.com Speaks Hebrew, English and German. Education: 2011- Geography and Bible studies at the Hebrew University 20089–the Tour Guides Course – University of Haifa (Jerusalem branch). Completion – license received: February 2010. Specialty: -Jerusalem: many tours within…
Haya Heineberg- Kraus
Please meet Haya Heineberg- Kraus, a veteran licensed tour-guide of Israel. Haya has former experience with both groups as well as individual tourists. Haya specializes in Christianity and Judaism studies, as well as in the city and history of Jerusalem. Haya combines visual and musical effects that are related to…
Einav Ayalon
Please meet Einav Ayalon, an Israeli licensed and experienced tour guide; since 1999. “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen”. I replayed: ” yes; that is so.” And, without saying anything more, I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us…
“Hagar”
Yochi Brandes, is an Israeli author who grew up in an orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem. She usually writes with a profound mastery of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. Her recent books have dealt with Biblical stories, which she had woven, with a masterful hand into stories of what…
The Israel Trail
The travel/hiking trail is a path that links north, center and south of the land; offering unique tastes, cultures, adventures and experiences for those who hike it. It is a taste of Israel. The trail had been marked with the assistance of the Society for the Protection of Nature in…
Tzova/Tzuba
Tzova, also known as “Tzuba”, is a kibbutz near Jerusalem situated in the Judean Hills. Ancient Tzova is named “Tel-Tsova”, nowadays an archaeological site of the Jewish settlement in the days of King David , based on the Bible (Samuel). In 1170 it had been built into a Crusader fortress,…
Kochav-Hayarden/Belvoir
The national Reserve, Kochav-Hayarden, is situated on the slopes of the Jordan Valley, in Eastern Israel; overlooking the marvelous view of the Jordan valley and of the far away Gilad-mountains. In ancient times it had been called “Belvoir” (beautiful view). The site is a Crusaders’ castle, initially built in 1140…
Atlit – a former detainee camp
The detention camp was established at the end of the 1930’s, by the British Mandate authorities- during the time period when they had governed Palestine. It is located some 20 kilometers south of the city of Haifa– in the North West par of Israel. The camp had been established in order…
Jesus
The general belief is that Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph, in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, while staying overnight at the stables. The belief is that he had been placed (to sleep) in a manger, directly after his birth. The town of Bethlehem is situated in the…