This morning, after a delicious breakfast with Ben's omelet and cheeses from Ilana and Rani, the four of us started out for the Golan Heights. First we went to a shop called Tamar Bakefar, which means dates in the village. It was a great shop that all kinds of herbs and spices and dried fruits and all different kinds of dates from date palms! We bought dried pears that were delicious!
Then we went up on the Golan Heights on the east side of Lake Kinneret (Lake Galilee), and we went to Kefar Haruv, which is a viewpoint called Peace looking out over the Lake. It was quite beautiful though it was a bit hazy. The important thing that Rani and Ilana wanted us to understand is how the Golan Heights under Syrian control allowed the Syrians to bomb and kill Israelis all around the Lake and in all their Kibbutzim.
Then we went to see a spring of mineral water called Mey Eden. The place was called Salukia, and it was quite lovely with water flowing over rocks into little fountains within wonderful bushes and flowers. We walked all around and enjoyed it a great deal.
After the springs we headed for Mt. Bental and Coffee Anan (Anan is cloud in hebrew), which is a play on words obviously. This mountain had on top of it, besides the coffee shop, an Israeli bunker for fighting the Syrians. We actually went through the bunker - that was very scary. There were recorded devices that told the story of the 6 day war and the Yom Kippur war in 1973. It was so beautiful to look out over all the cultivated fields of grapes and other fruits and olive trees. From the top of the mountain you could look down on Kibbutz Merom Golan, which was developed after the 6 day war and then had to be evacuated during the Yom Kippur war. After our visit to the mountain, we went down to Merom Golan, because Ben's other cousin, Ahuva, and her husband, Tato, live there!
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