ISRAEL TRAVEL & ADVENTURE BLOG

Caesarea of Philip Caesarea Philipi (originally Panias) is situated 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee and at the base of Mt. Hermon, it  is the location of one of the largest springs feeding the Jordan River.  This abundant water supply has made the area very fertile and attractive for religious worship.  Numerous temples...

Caesarea as near Sebastos Caesarea was located on the Mediterranean coast thirty-three miles north of Joppa and sixty miles northwest of Jerusalem. The Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, gave the site to Herod the Great, who constructed his most extensive building project there, a city designed on the Roman model, which was named in honor of...

Jeasus Boat Museum This Roman boat was discovered by accident in the winter of 1986, after a dry season when the lake was very low.  It was found on the muddy shores of the sea of Galilee between Ginnosar and MagdalIa. It was transferred to a special museum in the Yigal Allon center in Kibbutz Ginnosar....

Jaffa is One of the World’s Oldest Cities An Ancient City Jaffa is one of the world’s oldest cities, with a harbor that has been in use since the Bronze Age. The city’s history is connected to a series of successive conquests that rocked Israel through the millennia. In biblical times, Jaffa was ruled by the...

Capernaum fishing village Capernaum was the center of Jesus activities in the Galilee and his town during that time. Jesus taught in the local synagogue. It was also the home town of the apostles Peter, James, Andrew and John, and the tax collector Matthew. In the New Testament, it is stated that Jesus preached at the...

Turned water into wine miracle The Arab village of Kafr Cana in the Lower Galilee is known in Christian tradition as Cana of the Galilee. It was mentioned in the New Testament as a place where Jesus performed his firs miracle, when he went to a wedding of a poor couple and turned water into wine. In the 17th century Kafr...