Mount of Olives, Israel
juha loves Mount of Olives because it's a pretty place even for an agnostic like me.
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What is Mount of Olives
. It is named from the olive trees with which its sides are clothed. At the foot of the mountain is the Gardens of Gethsemane where Jesus stayed in Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives is the site of many important Biblical events. Roman soldiers from the 10th Legion camped on the Mount during the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD, which lead to the destruction of the city (...)
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"81 Jerusalem; Yerushalayim pictures 173 Israel pictures."
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"At that point (c. 1000s BCE ), the Israelites ,led by King David ,invaded and conquered the city, expanded it southward, established it as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah (the United Monarchy ), and renamed it to its present-day name of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)."
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"The giant white cloth with word "peace" in several languages is hanging over a large cliff in Abu Tor, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem."
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"During the centuries of the Crusades, Jerusalem was the ethereal vision that moved the armies of Europe and Islam, but for almost 700 years after the Crusades ended, the actual city of Jerusalem existed mostly as a shadowy, forgotten backwater, slowly falling into ruin and decay."
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juha from Finland wrote about Jerusalem one month ago
The old city is obviously the place you want to go. Once you see the ancient walls you just have to be in awe of all the history that has happened in this city. I don't how long you should spend here to see it all. Just an incredible place.
juha from Finland wrote about Western Wall one month ago
Cool history. I especially liked the fact that tho holiest part of the wall was so holy that only a certain high priest can visit it through a cave etc. They tied a rope to him so that if he'd die while in the cave they could pull him out, as the place was so holy that no one else was allowed to visit. Crazy are the things that people do for religion...
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