Israel Welcomes the New Year with Rain and Snow

As Israel said hello to 2018, snow fell on Mt Hermon and rain waters flooded parts of the coastal plain and sent water cascading into waterfalls in other parts of the nation.  Check out the snow in the Hermon region: https://www.facebook.com/ynetenglish/videos/1827916797242795/   More info here.

A Trip to the Galilee

Today (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) was Shabbat, so everything in Israel is pretty much shut down.  Thus, we took the opportunity to make the two hour drive down to Galilee.  "Down" has a different connotation in Israel because, though the Galilee area lies to the north of Jerusalem, one always goes "up" to Jerusalem, …

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