Going into Edomite caves
In the caves
Ethan the archeologist
Joy and me digging
Olive oil press
Richard, Claire, Michael and me outside of Jaffa
A square in Jaffa
A street in Jaffa
The door to the house of Simon the tanner
A sign outside the first Jewish synagogue in Jaffa
A suspended tree!
A new way of dealing with Ethan...
Claire, Ethan and me with a view of Tel Aviv in the background
Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean
Taking a break from all that walking
Claire lounging
Ethan trying his best to get wet
A picture of the history of Tel Aviv
Underground bullet factory where kibbutz members made bullets prior to the British leaving
Pictures of the kibbutniks making bullets
Hiding the bullets in gas trucks
Entrance to the bullet factory (it was under a washing machine)
The entrance from below
Rabin square, where Yithak Rabin was assassinated
Memorial to Yithak Rabin
The other part of the memorial
Annoying my dad while he was trying to take a picture of us
and again...
that's better
Maddie and me on the bus
Singing at the kibbutz museum
Joy, Claire, Ethan and me at a craft fair at a kibbutz
Richard playing drums with Adlers and Schechters
Michael playing drums
Dad, Aunt Lori and Sandy
Dad and Maddie on the bus
Ancient mosaics at Tsippori
Ruins at Tsippori
Giant mosaic from the synagogue at Tsippori
Hehe
Joy, Michael, Richard and Claire with the family they visited for the home hospitality dinner
Spitting square in Safed
Old synagogue in Safed
Ark in the synagogue - it was too tall for the building, so they bent it at the top to fit
Walking through the Hulu valley nature reserve
Izzy, our tour guide, showing us a diagram of the Jordan river
Ethan imitating Richard imitating Michael
Old flour mill
Golan heights
View of Lebanon from the Golan Heights
Dad in a bunker in the Golan Heights
Minefield in the Golan Heights
Sculptures outside of Cessarea
Cessarea
Amphitheater at Cessarea
Ethan waiting to run down the staircase
The staircase - Ethan took about two steps before he lost his footing and fell down the rest of it
Me showing my sympathy for Ethan after the fall by asking him whether his ears acted as a parachute and slowed him down
The hippodrome at Cessarea, where chariot races and gladiator fights took place
Helping a little boy make an art project at PACT in Netalya
Two Ethiopian Jews telling us their Aliyah story
The gift Ethan made for Neta
Our first view of Jerusalem - the Mount of Olives
The old city and Dome of the Rock
More of Jerusalem
Ethan in his New Years Eve hat
Ethan and me ready for the hat contest (we left too early to find out who won)
Dad and Linda
The boys in their hats
This is an Ethiopian hip hop group that is apparently very popular in Israel right now
Linda dancing
Ethan and Maddie enjoying the music
Out with the Adlers and the Schechters on New Years Eve
Me with my brothers
Little Jody drinking
One of the gates to the old city (I think this is Zion gate)
The Davidson Center - and archeological site sponsored by Bill Davidson, who owns the Pistons
Old street in the Davidson Center
Ethan after he stole Zoe's sweatshirt and Izzy's coat
The Western Wall
The boys at the Western Wall
Claire and me at the Western Wall
Joy at the Western Wall
Shops at the Davidson Center
Ethan trying to keep warm
A mikvah at the Davidson Center - the men would walk down one side of it and back up the other side
Notes in the wall
The Western wall
The remains of a wall from the first temple period
Izzy explaining a recreation of a mosaic of a map of Jerusalem. The original in in Jordan
Hebrew Union College, where the b'nai mitvah took place
Oh Ethan
Michael and Richard foiling Joy's plan to get a picture of them
They rolled out the entire Torah because the b'nai mitvot were reading from all different parts of it
Yad Vashem
Avenue of the Righteous at Yad Vashem
Model of what the second temple looked like - it had moving parts to show how the area surrounding the temple changed.
The Western Wall tunnels
This brick weighs 570 tons!
Aunt Lori in the tunnels
A reservoir at the end of the tunnels
The Western Wall at night
A fresco at Masada
Dad at Masada
The view of Jordan from Masada
Ethan at Masada
Izzy trying to get Neta to sing
A bath at Masada - it had a heated floor that was created by sending hot air under the floor through these columns
This is how they heated the walls in the bath
Remains of a Roman Camp at Masada
Another Roman camp - this was the Roman headquarters
The dead sea
Michael floating
Schechters and Adlers getting muddy before they get into the dead sea
Me floating in the dead sea
Richard putting on mud
and helping Michael put on mud
Richard covered in mud - he added vertical stripes to the mud, too!
Richard and Claire covered in mud
Ethan with some mud
Dad at the dead sea
Ethan forgot his bathing suit
Pumelos!!!
Family picture!
Our last day:(
Outside the old city
Joy's windmill (this was in the first neighborhood built outside of the old city)
David's tomb...supposedly
The tomb
The room where the last supper took place
Another view of the room where the last supper took place
The roof of the building with David's tomb and the last supper room - this is where religious Jews would come to pray when Jordan controlled the old city from 1948-1967
A golden menorah that belongs to a group that advocates the building of a third temple
View of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock
We put this water bottle in Michael's sweatshirt, and he didn't notice for about 15 minutes!
The Armenian quarter (this one is for Shant)
Sign marking the entrance to the Jewish quarter of the old city
