Holy Land Tour

Northern Israel

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Here is an Israeli Army lookout hill facing Syria.
There are all kinds of listening devices on the summit.
I planted a tree in Israel, and I wonder how tall it has grown?
I am standing at the Israeli/Lebanese border.
Caesarea Philippi was a center of pagan worship. Beginning in the third century B.C., sacrifices were cast into the cave as offerings to the god, Pan.
Caesarea Philippi is at the base of Mt. Hermon.

Megiddo

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Megiddo overlooks the valley named after it: Armaggeddon.
Megiddo has been occupied 26 times.
This site features a huge, stone altar
Looking south
A stone manger
In the ninth century B.C., King Ahab constructed a massive system with a 30-meter-deep shaft and a 70-meter-long tunnel.
I had no idea that it went down so deep.