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Valley Railway

The Valley Railway was an Ottoman-era branch line running from Haifa through the Jezreel Valley towards Damascus, opened in 1905. Discussed here as part of the post on the agricultural settlement of the Jezreel Valley.

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Old train carriage at Kfar Yehoshua Station
North · Galilee

Settlement of the Jezreel Valley

A field trip across the Jezreel Valley tracing the early-Zionist settlement of the area: Tel Yoqneam, the Valley Railway museum, the Templer villages of Bethlehem of Galilee and Waldheim, the Nahalal cemetery, Merhavia and Sejera.

Feb 2014 · 4 minute read
View from Tel Yoqneam Old train carriage at Kfar Yehoshua Station War Memorial at Kfar Yehoshua The Oldest Mt Tavor Oak in Israel! Church at Waldheim/Alonei Abba Grave of Ilan Ramon, Nahalal The Great Courtyard of Merhavia Ancient Mikve at Ilaniya / Sejera
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