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		<title>Berko Park, aka ancient Tiberias</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[King Herod Antipas unwittingly built Tiberias directly over a Jewish cemetery. Luckily, some 130 years later, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai decided to purify the place After the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE, the Romans who ruled the Land of Israel granted the Galilee to his son Antipas. In the middle of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Land of Ancient Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruins from over 90 synagogues have been uncovered in Israel — some restored, some barely ever visited. Here are five awe-inspiring trips through the sites of Sabbath past From a distance, it looks like just another pile of basalt rocks. Get a bit closer, however, and you are in for a surprise: those stones once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restored Train Station Now Open In Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 14:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1892, the first train from Jaffa to the Holy City reached the new train station in Jerusalem. One hundred and six years later, the last train pulled away &#8211; and the station closed its doors. Years went by, and the train station began to fall apart. Fortunately, following the wildly successful restoration of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christian followers of a hermit named Mar Maroun have refused to abandon their faith. Sound familiar? While browsing the Internet for information on the Galilee town of Gush Halav, we found these words on a site linked to the Ministry of Tourism: “The Arab village of Gush Halav [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between east and west: Jerusalem’s No-Man’s Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November of ’48, Moshe Dayan and his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah a-Tal marked up a map. They didn’t intend to divide the city in two One day in 1954, a patient leaning out of the window of Jerusalem’s French Hospital coughed so hard that her false teeth flew out of her mouth and landed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High and mighty: a trip to the Israel Air Force Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; From Avengers and Mirages and Spitfires to blind spots and crash landings, the aircraft on display tell the incredible tale of a young nation’s survival Shortly after Israel declared her independence, a column of Egyptian forces invaded Israel from the south and advanced towards Tel Aviv. Israel’s meager ground forces were unable to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting discovery in Jerusalem!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Temple Period Quarry and Iron Key discovered in Jerusalem! During excavations that took place while preparing a new highway in northern Jerusalem, archeologists discovered a huge quarry that dates back to the Second Temple period. And in the quarry, they found a large, unusual key that probably opened a public building from the times. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pre-state struggle remembered at the Underground Prisoners’ Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prison garb was brown for regular prisoners, black if you’d tried to escape, and red for those condemned to hang… This Jerusalem museum makes for a particularly appropriate visit around Independence Day One Friday evening in 1946, British guards dragged 16-year-old Benjamin Kimchi from his cell in Jerusalem’s Central Prison and lashed him 18 times. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masada, tragic fortress in the sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three brave years, the freedom fighters on this rocky plateau — known as the Zealots — managed to hold back 10,000 Roman troops armed with every contemporary siege weapon. Finally, a battering ram breached the wall. When you glance at it from the highway, Masada looks much like any other mountain in the Judean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A German colony in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persecuted and excommunicated, the Templers believed the Day of Judgment was near. Naturally, they headed for the Holy Land “It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Refaim.” (Isaiah 17:5) In 1868, a large [...]]]></description>
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