And as Israel is the ‘start-up nation’, expect to have an even more pleasant stay thanks to the various apps that will help you to find your way and get the best of this small and amazing country, even though you prefer to travel by yourself. 

Here it is an article about the must have apps while on the road in Israel: you will be able to know everything about currency rates, best taxi deals, translation, free communication, walking tours. 

Enjoy your trip!

A very nice place to shop in Agadir is called Le Medina d’Agadir Cocco Polizzi. It was built by an Italian architect who felt that Agadir should have a medina after the entire city was destroyed in an earthquake in the early 1960′s. The medina has a bus that goes to the major hotels and transports you to the medina which is located about 10 minutes from the downtown area. You are buying products from the actual people who are making them. You can watch craftsmen make leather shoes, loom scarfs, wooden boxes, stone carvings, etc.  The prices are generally fixed, most of the shop owners give discounts if asked. Again, what you find here is very genuine (unlike in a lot of the other shops in town where it looks genuine, but in many cases isn’t even made in Morocco). The medina also has a lovely snack bar run by two Moroccan women who will provide you a lunch for a very reasonable price. The medina charges a small entry fee (about 2 euros) which ensures that local hasslers stay out. It was built for tourists and offers some of the cutest boutiques in the country for shopping.  Just ask at your hotel for the Medina of Cocco Polizzi. They’ll know how to get to it.

There are also family-friendly restaurants along the terrace, where the kids can get ice cream cones, or everyone can try their taste buds at some traditional Moroccan cuisine. Find a cafe chair or bench along the terrace and people-watch in the early evening, or make new friends. If you are a couple, then it should be OK to sit and “make new friends”. However, if you are single, then, those new friends are likely to be the ones who are paid hourly for their services! The abundance of tourists to this location appears to have attracted prostitutes (of both sexes) to the area, hoping to service the toursist’s every need!

Downtown Agadir has its share of nightspots, too, but these tend to be on the higher end of the cover-charge scale. Overall, there is no dress code among night visitors, as a high premium is placed on comfort and relaxation. Sportsbars feature popular evening football matches on their big screens.

Oftentimes, the very hotel you’re staying at offers nightime diversion, with traditional Moroccan music and festive dancers in colors and bangles. Be brave and try a few steps along with them.

“Circle Zion, take her measure, count her fortress peaks, gaze long at her sloping bulwark, climb her citadel heights—then you can tell the next generation detail by detail the story of God, our God forever, who guides us till the end of time” (Psalm 48: 12-14, The Message).

Announcing Life

The nooks and crannies

between and around

the Holy City’s

ancient stones

are packed with

soil, sprinkled with

seeds, and watered

by hopeful, eternal

hearts. Once empty

spaces producing

color, and every

crevice announcing,

life,

“Life from the dead.”

© Bonnie Saul Wilks

all rights reserved

Jerusalem, Israel

May 14, 2012

Honestly, I think after reading in general — most of life in real time seems “smaller.” Books plus imagination equals grandiose thoughts, ideas, images, and plans.

God gave us such marvelous imaginations. We have this fantastic ability to dream, a gift straight from the mind and heart of our Creator because we are fashioned from His own image. It is such a quicken thought to imagine Jesus Himself as a dreamer.

I am constantly disappointed by what I see in reality because of the verve and creativity bumping around in my head. Creativity does make the world go round.

With that said, the Son Man — who is also the Son of God, Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew — does not disappoint. The love toward humankind, miracles, outstretched hands of compassion that He showed on the banks of the Galilee are bigger than life and better than anyone could imagine.

One of the towns on the shores of the Kinnert is Capernaum, used by Yeshua for His public ministry in the region and later cursed by Him for not receiving His teachings and miracles. In Hebrew, it means simply town of Nahum; although it is not considered to be named after the prophet Nahum. The old fishing village sets on the north of the Sea of Galilee, serene in location, and is saturated  with glorious sunlight during the day. The ancient stony, carved ruins gleam with illumination on many levels — leading us to the significant events of yesteryear.

Standing among Capernaum’s rubble, it is easy to imagine Jesus walking arm-in-arm with Peter and Andrew along  dusty, rocky pathways. Several disciples came from this place and knew it well. It is natural to envision the Master standing in the local synagogue of the day, expounding on truths that prick the hearts of modern men who flock to its ruins from around the world to inspect the fallen, broken stones and hear the old stories of the ancient town of miracles.

Although just a ruin, Capernaum is still called the town of Jesus.

The Gospels tell us that after Jesus returned from His temptation in the wilderness,
Capernaum was the first place that He taught. The people were astounded at His impartation and authority. It was here that Peter’s mother-in-law was healed from a fever, the centurion’s child delivered from an illness by Jesus’ word alone, the paralytic lowered through the roof to be touched by the Master; and from here, Jesus climbed into a simple fishing boat to calm the seas and winds of a sudden storm.

It is intriguing that among Capernaum’s ruins were found Stars of David engraved in stone as well as a seven-branched menorahs and an image of the Ark of the Covenant. It shows these important Jewish symbols are indeed very ancient and will continue to be significant in the days ahead to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see the Jesus, the Jewish Messiah. The carvings on the ancient stones are the fingerprints of Jesus. He left them there to help us believe, to show us the way.

These dead relics still radiate the heat and power of His life force that could not be left in the ground, but burst open in life on the third day after His unjust and cruel crucifixion on Golgotha. He went there willing, yet it was unjust. His blood still cries from the ground. And one day, he will even the score. Not with flesh and blood; but with the enemies of God.

Star of David

Carved seven-branched menorah

4th-Century Synagogue*

The ruins of a 4th-Century synagogue  are bleached brilliantly white by constant over-exposure to the Mediterranean sunshine and are made of ornately carved, limestone. In its day, the luminescent stone contrasted severely with the rest of the village which was made of black basalt stone, layered and fitted together without mortar.

It is very significant that the ruins beneath these gleaming white ones of the synagogue are black basalt stone as well and probably date back to the time period of Jesus. Many scholars agree that Jesus probably taught from this very place. In fact, some suggest that possible four or five synagogues have rested on this same spot through the centuries. One may have been converted for use by early Christians, who were indeed Jews by birth, lifestyle, and practice.

Columns line the synagogue.

I wrote the following short poem while on a visit to Capernaum.

Cursed Capernaum

The town of Jesus

Capernaum

dusty rubble and

raw rudiments

standing square,

gleaming brilliantly

in the Middle Eastern sunshine,

underscoring, remarking

in feelingless facts

that a Jew lived

and left

a legacy of proofs

etched hot in cold stones.

Even this old fishing village

cursed by Jesus

for unbelief –

of miracle after miracle –

now dead in broken relics

breathes living

hope for me and

for all who hear

the stones shouting

the stones shouting

silently

shouting.

© Bonnie Saul Wilks

all rights reserved

*(photo courtesy Wikepedia: Capernaum)

Having never gone to Israel before, I talked to people for advice. I heard comments ranging from – ‘I hope you’re packing a Kevlar Vest.’ to ‘You get to breathe in the same air as Jesus? What I wouldn’t do to be able to experience that.’

Although we will not be trying to walk on water or reenact the Jonah story, we will get to swim with dolphins, float in the Dead Sea, hike, shoot arrows in the desert, hike some more and take a Camel trek. All good, clean fun in the Promise Land.

Stay tuned for daily reports of Adventures in Israel…

Nephi and the Brass Plates has just been remastered and released for its 25th anniversary. Will you tell us about how you came to create these animated films?

When talking about our animated films we have to mention our first ten years. The beginning of Living Scriptures started with selling audio dramatized cassettes. Two years prior to Orrin Hatch becoming senator, we licensed the rights from him for a series on the Old Testament, but I was never satisfied with their quality. As time went on with that dissatisfaction we finally decided to create a whole new library of dramatized productions. We worked on seven series for 10 years, and they are still products loved by people. Little did we know that the process of developing these dramatizations was preparing us for creating the animated movies.

In 1985, we realized people were turning toward buying videos, and it was difficult to figure out how to get into that because the production cost was over 70 times that of the dramatizations. The first films we did was a tour of Israel with the great Mormon scholar,  W. Cleon Skousen, who passed away five years ago.

After we did the Visit Israel films, a man from Hanna-Barbera approached an individual in the Church’s audio/video department to sell the Hanna-Barbera bible stories they had recently animated. That individual said the Church couldn’t really help him, but that he should talk to the president of Living Scriptures. So he sent them to me. After we started working with them to sell the Hanna-Barbera products we found that the Latter-day Saints really liked them, but I felt the biblical accuracy was poor, just like before with the dramatized tapes we first licensed. I didn’t like how they combined fiction and time travel with the scriptures; they just didn’t have good accuracy. I remember telling Joe Barbera, the head of Hanna-Barbera, that it could be done better than this. They looked at me like, “We’re Hanna-Barbera! We know a little more about this than you do. We have a standard that works and there is no way we’d go outside of that.”

Anyway, that began the discussion with Joe Barbera, who must have been in his 80s, about creating the kind of stories we wanted to be told. When he put the numbers on the table, he wanted $600,000 per episode plus 20% of the sales and wanted to own the asset. We were deflated; there was no way we could make that work. I figured that they were the only company we could use, so we thought the idea was dead. But, my friend Lex de Azevedo, who we’d worked with on several music projects, mentioned to me that a friend of his, Richard Rich, had just left Disney after 14 years there. So I got a hold of Rick Rich and we set up a meeting. This was an afterthought because I figured a feature film animator couldn’t possibly meet the smaller budgets for creating the Animated Book of Mormon. But after meeting with Joe Barbera and hearing his proposal, it was worth a try.

The meeting with Rick left us with enormous questions about how a former Disney Producer with budgets in the tens of millions could meet our budgets in the hundreds of thousands. We couldn’t take such a tremendous gamble on someone who had never even worked with Han Ho, the animation studio in Korea. He couldn’t even guarantee that the budgets would be met.
In the end a lucky thing happened on our way to the airport. I had made up my mind that we weren’t going to do the animations because the questions were too big. Our driver ended up driving past the Burbank studio of Han Ho. As we were going past the studio, Rick says, “By the way that’s the Han Ho studio.” I didn’t realize they had a presence in Burbank.  I say, “Let’s turn around and go in for a tour.” Rick let me know that they wouldn’t let us in because they were working on a feature. I told him, “Let’s go back and see if they’ll let us in.” When we arrived I asked for the head of production, and lo and behold, he’s also LDS.  So he let us in, and that’s when I realized that they had enough assets here that they could carry forth a contract and that we could make our dream happen. Later, I found out that our driver was totally lost. If we hadn’t passed the studio we would have probably got on the airplane and our animations never would have happened.

We made the decision to go forward — which was a huge decision — failure would have meant bankruptcy. As soon as we released the first title, Nephi and the Brass Plates, we thought the market would be much, much more receptive. We were delusional to think we could have sold as many videos as we thought we would. The average production cost was about $500,000 per video or $800–900K for each episode today.

We had also decided to start The Animated New Testament series starting with The King is Born for release at the same time. As a side note about The King is Born: This great classic has been played to millions and the number of languages it’s in is unbelievable. When the Iron Curtain fell, there were people on a Christian TV station, Dayspring, that worked with the 700 Club who took The King is Born and He is Risen into Russia. It was like the first Christian product that had been played there in 70 years and it exposed millions of people in Russia to the stories of Jesus in the New Testament.

So when we started doing the Animated New Testament and Animated Book of Mormon, we initially planned on doing six movies of each. As we started we expected sales to materialize at a fast enough rate to pay for the production costs.  That didn’t happen. As we continued production we were getting more and more in debt—to the tune of about 5 million dollars. At that point no one would loan us more money, and they stopped believing that it was financially working — which it wasn’t. This was a real point of desperation about the end of 1987. I thought the whole thing was going to come apart and we’d be bankrupt.

I was pleading with heaven every day that we could keep things going, and the most amazing thing of my entire life happened: Someone wanted to buy our other company that we had started in 1976, known today as Convergys. Out of the clear blue Cincinnati Bell sought us out for purchase and within six weeks time we went from owing 5 million to having 27 million dollars in our hand. We didn’t even seek the sale; they sought us out. It was beyond amazing. Another thing that was a big factor was my partner from the beginning, Seldon Young, worked out the details and negotiated with them. That funding let us complete what we were creating but also allowed us to do more stories from the Book of Mormon and New Testament. It also allowed us to create a huge library of products including 12 Animated Old Testament and 20 Animated Hero Classics titles. It opened up a huge opportunity.

If there was a country called Palestine and its people Palestinians?, are there any historical and archaeological records or monuments to attest to their existence? See www.al-rassooli.org   for index to all related talks, also http & www.inthenameofallah.org .  Please also visit www.Ummat-al-Kuffar.org    NOTE All their  listeners are free to copy our chapters as long as they are not tampered with in any manner.

Video:  Great and questions and great facts!! THUNBS UP!!

Israel: Bless  and  support  it !!

In the end it just ended up being a monologue on improving our communication blah blah blah…

Later in the day, I was thinking over my reason for not wanting to go Shangri-La (previously known as Zhongdian, China). I made a trip up there when I was about 19, loved the place absolutely for its mishmash of tribal groups, its scenery, rough roads etc. Since then I’ve re-located it to a place in the back of my mind and to the lower ranks of travel destinations.

I dug deeper into my dream vault and I uncovered my longing to go Israel.

Especially more so since this is the Year of the Perfection of the Divine Order. For us, for the people of Israel, and for our work field.

The Bible says that whoever blesses Israel, God will bless back in return. I definitely want to reap that kind of blessings.

In Feb, Ps George Annadorai had invited us missionaries to join him in his Oct 10^th project to bless the survivors of the Holecaust in Israel. I remember clearly him saying that we will see the things that our hands touch thereafter reaping productivity up to 10x as much.

In my heart of hearts, I want, covet and desire that for the nation of Thailand.

That somehow in our elusive task as “envoys” on behalf of Thailand, God will in His benevolence notice and remember us & the untold faceless, nameless people who have toiled in the soils of Thailand. That in these last days, He will pour out His blessings and caused His name to be permanently wedged in the public and social consciousness of the Thai people.

Digressing slightly, I ask myself, what is the span of a person’s life? Maybe 80 if you’re healthy/ blessed. Or perhaps 40, even 60.

It is my hope that my life together with my husband’s, will have a lasting legacy not just for our children but the others to come, even the newer generations of other nations. That they will know that the Lord is good, that He is the reason why we toil so. Amen and amen.

O Lord, let us go to Israel this year!!! Hahaha, so it’s boiled down to this one request. I feel like I’m slightly “manipulating” God, twisting His emotional arm to get what I want.

And look what I found when I was having my devotion this morning?

An old bookmark from Israel a friend had given me. Very rustic feel to it…

There are still places available. Join our tour of Israel. My husband and I will be leading this exciting trip to the Holy Land, Nov. 30-Dec. 8th, “In His Steps.” Follow the steps of Jesus throughout the land, meet nationals–both Arabs and Jews–that are believers, worship on the Sea of Galilee, offer your intercession at the Western Wall, see the wonderful sites of modern and ancient Israel. This is a trip of a life time. Church groups are welcome.

Log on here for details.

Interested in the local social-environmental perspective on israel?  Then a visit to Salon Mazal should definately be on your ‘what to see and do’ list while in Tel Aviv. 

salon mazal library - literature in both english and hebrew is available

Salon Mazal located at 50 salame steet tel aviv (03 6297734) is a non profit registered charity that serves as an information distribution center for social, environmental and political change.  Established in Tel Aviv in 2001 by a group of social-environmental  activists, Salon Mazal functions as a store with books & magazines in both english and hebrew, a selection of fair-trade products, a lending library, artist gallery, vegetarian bar and community center where movie screenings, lectures, workshops and meetings take place.

The centres’ atmosphere is friendly and offers a wonderful opportunity to integrate with the local activist community through their various evenings and events. Whether you just pop in for a fair trade coffee and a browse through the vast and interesting information available in english or decide to join one of their many events or even to volunteer some of your time, your visit to the centre is sure to  be a fun and interesting one.

 Salon Mazal  – Monthly Events list 

6th Oct 19:30  – Community work in south tel-aviv

In Kiryat shalom and Shapira neighborhoods lives a group of young people, working to enhance the local community and build a more sharing and cooperative way of life.

The two will talk about the experience of the group in building and developing a community and about the success and the diverse activities, about the challenges and difficulties and about the connection between living a communal and sharing way, and working for social justice.

7th Oct 19:00   -  “Globalization” by Dov Hanan

Come and meet member of Knesset, Dov Hanin, candidate for Mayor of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, who is coming to Salon Mazal  to present and tell about his book “Globalization”.  
 
Sun 19th Oct 19:30 –  Welcome Night 

There is a group gathering and members of the salon will tell you about the secrets of how the center works and invite you to take part in it. Vegan snacks! 
 

Weds 22nd Oct 19:30 – lecture/discussion on situation of  work   immigrants & their children in Israel

discussions on the future plans of israel authorities to perform a mass deportation plan. Come to give your opinion about what can be done about this situation.   
 
Thurs  23rd Oct 19:00 – How to deal with social & cultural  structuring of body images

Most of us are not happy with our body. We don’t believe that we are beautiful. Its hard for us to look in the mirror. Most of us try to do something about it – diets, body shaping, muscle work, hair removal, makeup and more.

At the workshop we will try to think together – what are the messages that society is giving us about our body? What is political about them? And how can we fight the suppression and learn how to love ourselves?    
 

Mon 27th Oct 20:00 – An evening of social & political  animation   

Screening of a number of short animation movies and “Stop Motion”, dealing with subjects like Ecology, food, organic products, alternative sex and the separation wall around the occupied territories. The screening will be accompanied by some explanations. 

Tues 28th Oct 19:30 – A meeting to join a group forming against deportation of refugees & work immigrants                                        

The authorities plan in the near future is to execute a mass operation that will lead to the deportation of thousands of refugees, many with children.  Come and meet a joint group of Israelis, refugees and work immigrants to hear and think together what we can do.  
 

Weds 29th Oct 19:30 – The struggle against house  demolition in kfar Shalem & Jaffa.                                    

A binational forum about two population groups that are struggling against the authorities and the Real Estate sharks for the right to have a roof over their heads. A meeting with a representative of the people’s council of Ajame and a representative from the citizens’ council of Kfar Shalem.  

Thurs 30th Oct 19:00 – Mini Benefit a tasty night of homemade  vegan cakes & hot  beverages.                                                               

Every participant is asked to bring 30 NIS for the costs and to help Salon Mazal  maintain itself and its activities

Until next time loving tel aviv

Gurdjieff Movements Performance - Osho Meditation Centre

Interested in developing your ability to BE more in the present moment and quieten the constant chatter going on in the mind ?  Then take a few minutes to read on, a wonderful opportunity awaits.

The delightful Jivan Sunder, a highly acclaimed Gurdjieff Movements teacher will be in Israel to lead a Gurdjieff Movements Workshop in the beautiful 4000 year old city of Acre (akko) September 12-13th 2008. The course will be in English.

During the weekend workshop, whilst learning 4-5 of these simple and immensely graceful movements,  participants have an opportunity gain insight into the strategies of their personality.  ‘Personalities are often precisely mirrored in the individuals approach to working with the movements’ says Jivan. ‘Its an interesting and very profound experience to begin to know one self from this perspective.’

‘Working together, we learn to become aware of the energy within us that motivates the movements and can then witness the energy in action.  With a greater sense of presence, feelings of harmony between body mind and emotions are created which naturally enhance ones grace.’ 

Who is Gurdjieff and What are the Movements?  (excerpts from Jivan’s website)

‘Gurdjieff Movements are the work of enlightened Armenian mystical artist and teacher, George Gurdjieff (1870-1949).

Gurdjieff created the Movements as part of his teaching system, basing them on various religious dances and rituals he saw while travelling throughout Asia.

He created each of the movements, of which there are over 150, as exercises to develop in his students what he called ‘presence of being’ – being present –  being completely aware of the present moment & not slave to the unconscious mind.

With the focus on being in the present moment, the movements, unlike most dance forms today which are a purely artistic/aesthetic experience, are more concerned with the spiritual/mystical experience, to bring about a higher state of consciousness and awareness. Hence the dance becomes a meditation’

Gurdjieff Workshop Leader Jivan

Jivan teaches the Gurdjieff Movements throughout the UK and Europe and also leads Gurdjieff Movement Groups in the Osho Meditation Centre in Pune, India. 

The Indian Mystic Osho considered the Armenian mystics dance movements extremely effective  in encouraging a deep movement towards the source, towards the centre of being and towards greater consciousness.

The September workshop is a great opportunity to get away from the hustle and bustle of life for a weekend, learn something new and enjoy the peacefulness and beauty of ancient Acre (akko).

Nestled on a rocky cliff, with stunning views of the north & south coasts, the sea side fishing village atmosphere of Acre‘ is delightful.  Take a morning walk through the old city , visit the markets or take a dip in the ocean, theres a few lovely beaches.  And don’t miss eating at possibly the best  hummus restaurant in the whole of Israel.  Said’s Restaurant is a much loved local favourite. Just ask a local for directions.

Gurdjieff Movements Workshop – Israel 2008

When: 12-13th September  (fri/sat)      Time: 10.00am – 17.30pm daily

Where:  Acre(akko) Theatre Centre, 1 Weizmann Street Acre (edge of the city, near the old Citadel)

Cost: 550 NIS (lunch not included)

Bookings/Information:  lila 0507 432939  Jivan (from 6th sept ) 0524 862125

                                           OR EMAIL Jivan jivansco@hotmail.com

What to wear:  Loose comfortable clothes that allow you to move freely.

How to get there:  National Rail have regular trains to Acre. (Check for friday timetable.)

Accommodation: Is not provided. (link for budget accom details below)

Hostel Accom Link: http://www.hostelpedia.com/countries/israelhostels/akko.html

Israel Travel Iinformation: http://www.aguide2israel.com

Until next time

loving tel aviv

Held over the Rosh Hashana holiday (30/9 – 1/10) and atracting a colourful international crowd, this fabulous Israel Summer Dance Festival is one not to be missed. Known for their great party locations in some of israels most beautiful nature spots, mosksha Sunset to sunset is a wonderful way to celebrate the Jewish new year.

The line up is fantastic and with the usual sweet crowd that Mosksha events seem to attract, it should be another great festival and  the perfect way to close yet another wild and wonderful Israel Summer Season.

On the deck’s from overseas are:

Shpongle (simon posford twisted records, coast to coast Ent UK)

Simply amazing !!!

Union Jack LIVE + DJ Set (platipus records UK)

promising to have you peaking with a special ‘trip down memory lane’
HALLUCINOGEN LIVE (simon posford, twisted records, coast to coast ent UK)

The master of magic…Mr Simon Posford

Andromeda live (Dream vision media, SWEDEN)

Taking you where the smiles dont stop

Chromosome  (dream vision Media, sweden)

Andre (Andromeda) will Perform with all his band plus two additional players for the first time in Israel, definately be on the floor for this one!

Plus the supremely talented Israeli stars: 

Amotz (Peak rec.)  Punkass (Moksha family)  Zombi (Blue tunes)  Huda g (Vertikal rec.)  Triac live (Boshke beats rec.)  Ace ventura LIVE (Iboga rec.)  PTX (Noya rec.) launching new album ‘Colour for your ears’
Quantize LIVE  (Iboga rec.)  Gula-k (Moksha family) One of my favourites!!!   Voice (Moksha family) Loud (Drive rec.)

Presale start Sunday 17/8 @ 170 NIS ticket.  There is limited presale priced tkts so get in quick!! Presale ticket’s are available all over the country. Contact Moksha Project via their myspace page at www.myspace.com/mokshaproject  to get the details on the selling points near you. 

Regular 230 NIS priced tickets will go on sale after presale has sold out.

For more details on Israel, how to get here, what to do while you are here plus the full run down on Tel Aviv the city that never sleeps visit www.aguide2israel.com

It was exactly one of these glorious life surprises that has lead to me living in thriving, vibrant, never sleeping, full power, delicious and never enough moments in the day to do everything TLV!!

Its very exciting to find oneself living in argueably one of the sexiest cities on the planet?  

Tel Aviv is magical. Its incredibly alive & full with outrageousness. Its chic, vibrant, colourful, full on and well… I simply adore it. 

I plan to share tel aviv with you…little by little. As I become more intimate with her, as I learn more of her as I discover her, I will share with you her treasures and unique gifts.   You will come to know her smells, sounds, talents and energy.

But this takes time, for she is mysterious. She is much much more than you can imagine, so much more that you can discover in one  visit or one glance at this blog .   

Tel Aviv is addictive.  Once is never enough.  Tel Aviv will grab you, lure you and entice you and I consider it a great honour to help create your addiction.  I look forward to it.

until your next visit. be well and be happy. 

loving tel aviv

ps: In the meantime, whatever basics you want/need to know about Tel aviv visit www.aguide2israel.com    It has been my life saver.  There is good info on TLV and the other cities in Israel. There are also fab links to the railways buses, national park sites, events info… pretty much all i have needed so far.

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