When wandering around Hatikva Market (Shuk Hatikva) it is amazing that you start to take on a degustation tasting menu of the history of the waves of immigration to Israel through the years. Hatikva means hope (also the name of the national anthem), and it was on this site in the 1850's that Clorinda Minor an American Evangelical founded a small settlement called Mount Hope. Unfortunately due to malaria and attacks by bedouins this dream was abandoned by its founders includin

Israel is fast becoming a beacon for wine lovers with over 250 different boutique wineries all over the country from the desert to the mountains the variety of soil provides winemakers with various challenges but also to consumers a variety of different of different palates to sample. The volanic soil in the Golan Heights in combination with the cool winters that sometimes bring snow after which the grapes yield an even amount of sugar between each crop has proved to be succe

The Madaba Map is the oldest existing graphic representation of Jerusalem that exists. It is found on the floor of the Church of St George in Madaba Jordan. The modern day Church sits on top of the remains of a Byzantine Church dating to around the mid 6th cent AD. For centuries it lay hidden until in 1884 the surviving fragments were uncovered when Christians once again came to live in Madaba following tensions with the Muslim community in Al-Karak. The detail of the map is