Jaffa
Jaffa, the mysterious and ancient city lying just south of Tel Aviv, is a place that I have visited on…
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The Road to Jerusalem in 1948
Having concluded our study of Israel’s wars in class, we were now to go out into the field to get…
Jerusalem in the British Mandate Period
As part of our series of trips exploring the development of the modern city of Jerusalem (i.e. outside of the…
Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem
Today was another catch-up trip, this time focusing on Jerusalem in the Roman and Byzantine periods, i.e. from the 1st…
Leaving the Old City walls of Jerusalem
While last week’s trip was focussed on the first buildings outside of the Old City walls by the Christian European…
The European Powers in Jerusalem
We returned to Jerusalem for a trip themed around the arrival of the European powers in the city. Over the…
The Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem
We have visited sites in the Jewish Quarter before, as part of our tours of Jerusalem in the First Temple…
Yad Vashem and Mt Herzl
Today began in a sombre atmosphere as we visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s official museum to the Shoah (the Holocaust). As…
Jerusalem Institutions
An interesting trip today as we visited ‘institutions in Jerusalem’, based around the area of Givat Ram where you can…
Settlements of the Judean Coastal Plain
As we move more and more into the modern period today’s trip was focused around a group of more modern…