This Saturday morning, we got up and got ready for the next chapter in our adventure. We first went to the top of Mt. Tavor, which has a church or two on the top and has wonderful views of Kefar Tavor, and the surrounding countryside, filled, of course, with cultivated fields and dotted with villages all around.
After that visit, we went back home, packed our car and then took off in two cars for Rosh Hanikra, which is at the most northern and western part of Israel, just at the border with Lebanon. The stone there is made of chalk and fossils from the sea, and the waves have carved out beautiful caverns that we visited. It was very, very nice. We also saw what is left of the railroad track that was built during the Second World War, when there was a need for a land route from the Middle East to Europe. So volunteers came from all over, including Israeli Jews, before there was an official Israel. They dug through the stone in the cliffs in Rosh Hanikra and built a railroad from Israel to Tripoli all in one year.
From Rosh Hanikra, we drove down the coast to Akko, which has a walled city in its old part that dates back only 4,000 years! It was a city involved in the Crusades, and Napoleon tried but failed to conquer it. It was quite impressive with a very busy port and market. We had another Middle Eastern lunch there - delicious - and then we took off going south. At one point, Rani and Ilana left us to go back home and we continued on to the Ben Gurion Airport to pick up Kristin.
Kristin arrived in good time and looking wonderful, and then we returned to Raquel's home where the family gathering was in full swing. Ben's Aunt Ruthie and Uncle David Goldstein were there. Ben's cousin, Raquel, and her son Avi, his wife Karen, their tw0-year old son, Adam, were there. Raquel's daughter, Vered, was there. Ben's cousin, Ella, and her son, Asi, his wife, Limor, and their one-month old daughter were there. Ella's daughter, Edith, was also there. It was a big, noisy, fun gathering of people speaking, Hebrew, English, Spanish, and French! We had a lovely time!
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