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Safety in Israel

April 11, 2020 by Joel Thornton

 Obviously, until we are passed COVID-19 nobody is going to Israel. So, this information is for when those days are behind us, which they soon will be.

As we promote our Israel trips, I have a lot of people rightly concerned about their safety if they travel to Israel with us. I have been in Israel the last three years and I can start by telling you that tourists are extremely safe in Israel.

The first thing to remember is that the bombs exploding on buses and in restaurants in Israel were all before the walls were built, walls that are doing a remarkable job of keeping terrorist from the Palestinian Controlled Territories out of Israel. The bombings have stopped.

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Filed Under: Tour Israel, Tour Planning, Travel planning Tagged With: Bethlehem, Church of the Nativity, COVID-19, Israel, Israeli Air Force, Jericho, Palestinian Controlled Terriitories, President Trump, Shilo, Virginia, Virginia Beach

Shilo, Alone with God

April 10, 2020 by Joel Thornton

Shilo is a place that all Christians are familiar with, even though you might not realize the significance of the area. We grew up hearing about it. We know that it was important to Israel, but we might not know why. We even sang hymns about it.

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Filed Under: Tour Israel Tagged With: Ark of the Covenant, Christian, Egypt, Israel, Israelites, Jew, Olive Oil, Olive Orchards, Promised Land, Prophet Samuel, Shilo

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