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| Titre : | Our Visit to Israel |
| Auteurs : | Emmanuel Dehan, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | New and revised ed. |
| Editeur : | Tel-Aviv [Israel] : Emmanuel Dehan, 1981 |
| Format : | 224 p. / Photos couleurs; cartes couleurs |
| Note générale : | 1st ed. 1974 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | OR/C (Terre Sainte, Israël : cartes et guides de voyage) |
| Résumé : |
PREFACE
Preparing a guidebook to any country is a demanding task; writing one about Israel, with its marked contrasts and obvious contradictions is particularly challenging. Yet works of this nature continue to appear in such number that it would seem there is neither room nor need for new guidebooks to Israel. Unfortunately, however, many of these works do not achieve their aims. Compiled without any sound criteria, many are simply dry catalogues of monuments and names and convey but little to the visitor who is either not specialized in certain studies or is hard pressed for time. During my many years of professional guiding in Israel, I have often noticed tourists in my groups taking notes and writing diaries of their trips as we went along. A few of these persisted with their writing, but more often than not, they abandoned their notes after a few hours or at most after a day or two. It was for those visitors to Israel that I first prepared my summarized itineraries and brief descriptions of the foutes actually travelled, including Biblical references to the places visited. I set out originally to provide visitors to Israel not with a guidebook but with a travel and study butline which they could fill in themselves with the able and imaginative assistance of my friends and colleagues, the tour guides of Israel. In recent editions of Our Visit to Israel, however, I have expanded the text greatly and have added to it a large collection of colour photographs and maps for both the arm-chair explorers of Israel, who study it from afar, and the hurried visitors to Israel, who may wish to recall their experiences in this country when they are far away. This publication has become for me an all encompassing labour of love, continuously fed by the many letters which are sent to me from people the world over. Some of the writers I have had the pleasure and privilege of meeting and showing them through my eyes the wonders of this country. I am particularly indebted to the many thousands who have read my books and those who have inundated me with letters of appreciation. For this reason I have taken the liberty of printing a small selection of them. Throughout my career as a guide in Israel and during the writing of this book, I have attempted to share with those I have guided and with my readers some of the love and enthusiasm I have for this my native land. This book is dedicated to those who, like me, delight in exploring and discovering Israel, for it is indeed, “a good land, a land of... fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills... a land of olive oil and honey.” |
| Note de contenu : |
- Chronological Table
- I. ISRAEL-HISTORY AND GENERAL SURVEY: Types of Settlement, Temperature Equivalents, Kilometers to Miles, Say it in Hebrew, Time Converter & General Information - II. JERUSALEM - OLD AND NEW: The Old City of Jerusalem, Mt. Zion, The Garden Tomb, Mt. of Olives / The Old City: Jerusalem Within the Walls / Excursion Around the City Walls / The New City of Jerusalem / The Military Cemetery, Mount Herzl, Yad Vashem Memorial / The Kennedy Memorial, the New Hadassah Medical Center / The Chagall Windows at the Hadassah Medical Center / Ein Karem — Birthplace of St. John The Baptist - III. FROM JERUSALEM - SOUTH AND EAST: Bethlehem, Hebron, Bethany, Jericho / The "Bik'ah" — Jordan Valley road from Jericho to Galilee / The Dead Sea, Qumran, En Gedi, Masada / S'dom (Sodom), Shefech Zohar, Arad, Beer-Sheva, the Negev - IV. TO EILAT AND THE RED SEA: From Shefech Zohar & Sodom, Via the New Arabah Road to Eilat / From Beer-Sheva, Via the Old Road to Eilat / To Shivta-Subeita, Nitzana and Kadesh Barnea / Kibbutz S'de Boker in the Negev / Avdat, Mitzpeh Ramon & the Central Negev / Yotvata, King Solomon's Mines, King Solomon's Pillars, Timna / Eilat / From Eilat, Via Nevi'ot & Di-Zahav to Ophira (Sharm E-Sheikh) / From Eilat, via Arabah Road to Sodom & Dead Sea, Petra — the Red Rock - V. SINAI: Peninsula, Geology, Peace Treaty with Egypt, St. Catherine's Monastery, The Bedouins, The Ten Commandments - VI. FROM JERUSALEM TO GALILEE: Through the "West Bank" & Samaria to Jezreel-Esdraelon / Gibeah, Mizpah, Gibeon, Emmaus / Atarot, Ramalla, Beeroth, Bethel, Mt. Ephraim, Shiloh, Lebonah / Jacob's Well, Sychar, Nablus-Shechem, The Samaritans / Samaria-Sebaste / Dothan, Jenin, The Jezreel-Esdraelon Valley, Afula / Nain, En-Dor, Mt. Tabor — Ascent & Visit to Mt. Tabor, Nazareth / From Nazareth to Cana, Tiberias & the Sea of Galilee / Tiberias & the Sea of Galilee / From Tiberias to Tabgha, the Mount of Beatitudes & Capernaum / From Tiberias to the Eastern Bank of the Sea of Galilee, The Jordan / From Kinneret to Mt. Tabor / From Deganya to El-Hamme — Hammat-Gader / Through the Jordan Valley to Belvoir & Beth-She'an / The "Bik'ah" — Jordan Valley Road to Jerusalem, Via Jericho / From Beth-She'an, Via Beth Alfa & Harod Spring to Afula - VII. UPPER GALILEE AND GOLAN HEIGHTS: From Tiberias, Via Rosh-Pina to Zefat-Safed / Through the Huleh Valley to Hazor and Kibbutz Ayelet-Hashahar / The Northern Frontier Road, Metzudat Koah, Kedesh Naphtali, Bir'a Manara, Kiryat Shmonah, Tel-Hai, Kfar-Gil'adi, Metula / From Kiryat Shmonah to the Golan Heights / Sources of the Jordan, Dafna, Dan, Banias, Caesarea Philippi / Kal’at Namrud, Neve Ativ, Mt. Hermon, Birket Ram, Druze Villages / Kuneitra, Road to El-Hamme and Ein Gev / To "Jacob's Daughters Bridge," Gadot, Jordan Park & Arik Bridge - VIII. FROM JERUSALEM TO HAIFA AND THE NORTH: Through the Mountains of Judea to the Sharon Valley / Kiryat-Jearim, Sha'ar Hagai, Shimshon Junction, Ramla / Via Latroun, Ajalon Valley and the New Highway to Tel-Aviv / Ben-Gurion Airport, Petach Tikva, Plain of Sharon / The Coastal Road from Tel-Aviv to Haifa, Via Hadera to Megiddo / Megiddo-Armageddon, From Megiddo to Haifa / Haifa, Mount Carmel & the Surroundings / From Haifa to Acre-Akko / From Acre to Zefat-Safed, Via Karmiel & Meiron / To Nahariya and Rosh Hanikra, From Nahariya to Sasa / From Haifa to Nazareth, Via Beth-Shearim & Nahalal / The Coastal Plain — From Haifa to Tel-Aviv / Ein Hod, Carmel Caves, Zichron Ya'acov, Caesarea / Hadera, Netanya, Kibbutz Shefayim, Herzliya, Tel-Aviv - IX. FROM JERUSALEM TO ASHKELON: From "Samson's Junction" Via Beth-Shemesh to the Valley of Elah / Via Beth Guvrin to the Shephelah & the Lachish Region / Via Kiryat Gat, Negbah & Heletz to Ashkelon / Ashkelon, Kibbutz Yad Mordekhai, Gaza Strip, Ashdod - X. TEL AVIV, JAFFA AND THE SURROUNDINGS: Tel Aviv-Jaffa — History & Places to Visit / Tel Aviv-Jaffa — Suburbs, Neighbouring Towns — Outward Roads / Ben Gurion International Airport / The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Giv'at Brenner, Yavne - Index - Hebrew Songs - Bible References — Trees, Plants & Fruit / The Flowers of Israel - XI. MAPS |
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