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29/07/2023

Betlehem - Church of the Nativity - Curch of St. Catherine. This is the church where the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem celebrates Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. Certain customs in this Midnight Mass predate Vatican II, but must be maintained because the Status Quo was legally fixed by a firman (decree) in 1852 under the Ottoman Empire, which is still in force today.

27/07/2023

Cave near Tiberias

26/07/2023

From Biblical times until the present, Jews have been buried on the Mount of Olives. The necropolis on the southern ridge, the location of the modern village of Silwan, was the burial place of Jerusalem's most important citizens in the period of the Biblical kings.

24/07/2023

The Mount of Olives is one of three peaks of a mountain ridge which runs for 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) just east of the Old City across the Kidron Valley, in this area called the Valley of Josaphat.

22/07/2023

Church of St. Catherine - Betlehem
The adjoining Church of St. Catherine is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Catherine of Alexandria, built in a more modern Gothic Revival style. It has been further modernized according to the liturgical trends which followed Vatican II.

This is the church where the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem celebrates Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. Certain customs in this Midnight Mass predate Vatican II, but must be maintained because the Status Quo was legally fixed by a firman (decree) in 1852 under the Ottoman Empire, which is still in force today.

21/07/2023

Mar Saba - Kidron Valley - The monastery, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited in the Christian world, has been a place of learning and has exerted an important influence in doctrinal developments in the Byzantine Church. Important personalities in this regard included Saint Sabbas himself, John of Damascus (676–749), and the brothers Theodorus and Theophanes (770s–840s).

01/07/2023

Jesus is said to have spent time on the mount, teaching and prophesying to his disciples (Matthew 24–25), including the Olivet discourse, returning after each day to rest (Luke 21:37, and John 8:1 in the additional section of John's Gospel known as the Pericope Adulterae), and also coming there on the night of his betrayal. At the foot of the Mount of Olives lies the Garden of Gethsemane. The New Testament tells how Jesus and his disciples sang together – "When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives" Gospel of Matthew 26:30. Jesus ascended to heaven from the Mount of Olives according to Acts 1:9–12.

30/06/2023

The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the oldest and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives has been a traditional Hebrew/Jewish burial location since antiquity, and the main present-day cemetery portion is approximately five centuries old, having been first leased from the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf in the sixteenth century.

27/06/2023

Fauzi Azar - Nazareth
the BEST place to stay, when you visit the Holy Land.

את האירוע חברה הבא שלכם, תעשו בלוקיישן מפתיע בגליל ✨

בית פאוזי עאזר בלב העיר העתיקה של נצרת, הוא בית הארחה בן למעלה מ-200 שנה. המקום משמש כהוסטל לתיירים מכל העולם, והוא חלק מרשת התיירות הותיקה 'אברהם'.

אם אתם מחפשים מקום לאירוע חברה, מפגש עסקי, סמינר, יום גיבוש או יום עיון לעובדי החברה, בואו תראו מה יש לנו להציע לכם!
בית פאוזי עאזר בנצרת, מתאים לאירועי חברה עסקיים קטנים 🥂
נוכל לכלול ארוחת בוקר או ארוחת צהריים גלילית-ערבית מצויינת, סיור מרתק ברחבי העיר העתיקה בנצרת, וכמובן גם את חלל הליוואן (הסלון) והחצר שלנו שמתאימים לכ-40 אנשים. ניתן לתאם גם לינה בפאוזי 🛏
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26/06/2023

Sanctuary of the Flagellation!
At this place is a Roman Catholic church and Christian pilgrimage site located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, near St. Stephen's Gate (also called Lions' Gate). It is part a Franciscan monastery which also includes the Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross.