May 12 and 13, 2013 Kfar Tavor to Harduf Wikiloc Maps: Kfar Tavor to Nazareth Ilit Nazareth Ilit Nazareth Ilit to Ka’abiya Ka’abiyah to Harduf Total mileage these segments: 25.4 (40.8 km) Total mileage since start at Tel Dan: 128.97 (207.5 km) With these two days of hiking I’ve now completed about 1/5 of...
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First of all, I would like to publicly thank Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, called “the spiritual leader of the haredi world.” Rabbi Shteinman gave his blessing to a proposal from United Torah Judaism politicians to bring in busloads of haredi girls to protest against Women of the Wall. As a result there were thousands...
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Today, the 28th of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar, is the day we commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967. Jerusalem today is a city physically united and spiritually divided. The Haredi want to impose their views of Torah on everyone else – no women praying in prayer shawls...
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April 7 and 8, 2013. On these two segments I started at the Swiss Forest, came down to Kibbutz Kinneret, made a detour through Kibbutz Deganya Bet to stop at the Galita Chocolate Shop, climbed back up to Yavna’el, where I spent the night. From Yavna’el picked up the trail again and finished at...
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March 15 and 17, 2013. I completed the first “major” segment of the hike on this trip: from Tel Dan, in the far north on the border with Lebanon, to the Sea of Galilee. Next “destination” is Mt. Carmel near Haifa. I’ve completed about 75 miles on the trail, have about a similar distance...
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US President Barack Obama is here in Israel. Expectations for the visit here are extraordinarily low. The sense is that Obama is here to play tourist and build up his “I suppose Israel” bona fides to earn some political capital back at home. No one expects much of anything significant to come out of...
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