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Deseret News
April 15, 2018
Our Deseret News team and a group from KSL that includes longtime broadcast journalist Carole Mikita, had planned to report on the president's trip to the Garden Tomb and a highly anticipated visit to the shores of the Sea of Galilee to hear the man revered as a prophet by faithful church members testify ofÃâà...
Aish
April 15, 2018
There are scores of musical festivals in Israel today. Some of the most popular include Jacob's Ladder, a major folk music festival held at Kibbutz Ginosar on the shores of the Sea of Galilee; the annual Guitar Festival, held in the Negev desert; the Red Sea Jazz Festival, held over four days each year in EilatÃâà...
MyAJC
April 14, 2018
Far below, I spy lights edging what I perceive to be the dark Sea of Galilee, the stars twinkling in an inky black sky above. They say Safed is the Holy Land's closest town to the heavens, and I believe it. I can almost reach out and touch them. Then the thought strikes me. What is peace, anyway? A sense ofÃâà...
Victoria Advocate
April 13, 2018
My Lord also loved the sea, as He and his disciples spent many special times by the Sea of Galilee. One favorite time was the beach wood fire that Jesus shared with His followers. They shared smoked fish for their meal. Dear Lord, One day I am going to build a beach wood fire and cook some fresh fishÃâà...
San Diego Jewish World
March 29, 2018
EIN GEV, Israel (Press Release) — Every year during Pesach, hundreds of thousands of people visit the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and Magen David Adom is preparing accordingly by strengthening the forces in the area with an MDA Jet-Ski, which will be in operation from the beginning of the PesachÃâà...
Kittson County Enterprise
March 23, 2018
(Left) Father Vasek on a boat on the Sea of Galilee. Vasek and members of the Diocese of Crookston toured Israel recently on a trip entitled “Footprints of God.” (Right) Earl Karboviak (front) in the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. VeAnn Green is taking a picture of Dawn HolmÃâà...
Plant City Observer
March 22, 2018
Reverend Dean Pfeffer, of Hope Lutheran Church, Liz Pfeffer, Joyce Van Matre and Christine Mansell read the Plant City Observer in the Sea of Galilee, where Pfeffer recently hosted a tour of the Holy Land. Did you take the Observer with you on vacation? Send your pictures to Associate Editor Justin KlineÃâà...
Evesham Observer
March 11, 2018
Of course this reminded me of the two occasions in the New Testament gospels when the disciples of Jesus Christ were in a boat on the Sea of Galilee and horrendous storms broke out. Each time the disciples were very much afraid and feared for their lives even though some of them were seasonedÃâà...
Online Athens
March 11, 2018
They call it the Holy Land and as I wander along the Golan Heights and around the Sea of Galilee, along the West Bank and up to Jerusalem, I am reminded this week of those beautiful pictures from my children's Bible and my Sunday school literature. I am so thankful I had a children's Bible in my houseÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
March 10, 2018
Still, even casting her eyes once more on the Mount of Olives, the Sea of Galilee or the haunting expanses of the Judean Desert will not erase her memories of the snowcapped Wasatch Range. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here. The state is stunningly beautiful, varied in peoples and ideas, andÃâà...
The Times
March 10, 2018
This film presents Mary Magdalene as a young woman who leaves her fishing village on the shore of the Sea of Galilee to join Jesus, who teaches forgiveness and love in his mission to bring about the Kingdom of God. With the disciples she follows Jesus to Jerusalem, where he cleanses the Temple ofÃâà...
White Mountain Independent
March 9, 2018
In geography, we can see similarities when we compare the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. In northern Israel, the Jordan River runs along the border between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. Around the time 20 AD, the area around the Sea of Galilee was abounding with life! The fisheries of thisÃâà...
Haaretz
March 4, 2018
In the Carmel Mountains and the Sharon and Sea of Galilee areas rainfall levels were close to average or above it. In the south, rainfall levels were higher than average in February, and this was most prominent in the arid Negev and Arava regions. The cumulative amounts since the start of the rainy seasonÃâà...
Archaeology
February 14, 2018
While excavating three Byzantine churches in Galilee, archaeologists from Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee uncovered seven intact mosaic inscriptions that are beginning to fill in the story of small-village life in the fifth century A.D. The inscriptions are in Greek, and by virtue of mistakes in theÃâà...
Haaretz
February 12, 2018
Israel's natural water sources remain under threat despite the increased use of desalinated water and purified sewage, a new report said. Moreover, the ecology of the Sea of Galilee is in danger due to its falling water level, according to the state of the environment report, issued by the EnvironmentalÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Mickey Nikolaev, who has been guiding groups from abroad for 20 years, says the situation is most dire near Lake Kinneret (aka the Sea of Galilee) – an obligatory stop on every Christian itinerary. “There haven't been any new hotels built there in ages,” he says. Asked to comment on these complaints,Ãâà...
Epsom Guardian
December 31, 1999
Epsom and Ewell's Sports Personality of the Year is embarking on another rarely-attempted swimming challenge. Mickey Helps will be swimming 22km in the Sea of Galilee, a freshwater lake in Israel, on April 20 to raise cash for the British Heart Foundation. However, open water swimming can beÃâà...
