Trips

Mon., 1/30/23 - Jerusalem and Abu Ghosh
Today was our OAT “Day in the Life…” at the Arab-Israeli village of Abu Ghosh. We were hosted by the past mayor of the village who is a well educated and traveled man who has lectured at universities across the US.

Helpful signs

 

Chords Bridge also called the Bridge of Strings - Lite rail

 

Abu Ghosh - electric tower

 

Abu Ghosh - this is designed to keep people from climbing the electric tower

 

Road signs

 

Abu Ghosh - looking out over the town

 

Abu Ghosh - Statue of Mary and Jesus atop the Church of the Apparition

 

Abu Ghosh - Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque

 

Abu Ghosh - Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque - Sign: Put shoes in designated places

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque - Sign - sort out rows in mosque for prayer

 

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque - ceiling design

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque

 

Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque - ceiling design

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

Pantry Packers experience - packed boxes ready for delivery

 

Pantry Packers experience

 

Pantry Packers experience - places served in Israel

 

Pantry Packers experience - labels for bags

 

Pantry Packers experience - Green coffee beans go into the hopper

 

Pantry Packers experience - Bag is filled with coffee beans

 

Pantry Packers experience - Bag is sealed

 

Road signs

 

Sign on a market

 

 

Tues., 1/31/23 - Jerusalem
We took the day off today. The group went to the Holocaust Museum, listened to a survivor (she was two years old in WWII) and looked at the 12 Chagall glass windows each an abstract

 

 

Jaffa Gate

 

YMCA building

 

King David Hotel

 

 

Wed., 2/1/23 - Jerusalem, and the Herodion and Ein Karem

 

 

 

On the way to Herodium

 

Minaret on the way to Herodium

 

Views from Heriodium

 

Herodium

 

Model of Heriodium

 

Model of Heriodium showing Herod's Tomb and
surrounding structures

Herodium - Model - Staircase to Herod's Tomb

 

Balistic balls

 

 

 

Herodium - Roman garden and pool with colonades - Old Byzantine village in foreground

 

Herodium - Bathhouse

 

View from Herodium

 

Herodium - Model of the site

 

Herodium - Drawing of the site

 

Herodium - Overview

 

Herodium - Remains of the eastern round tower

 

 

Capitals

 

Capitals

 

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