Take a tour of Israel right in your own home!
Check the map on the "Maps of Israel" page for the locations of many of these places.
Make sure you scroll all the way across the page!

Israel is a land of great contrasts:
From ancient ruins...

...to modern cities.
This is Tel Aviv seen from the air as we are ready to arrive at Ben Guryon Airport

This is Tel Aviv viewed from the ancient seaport of Yafo (Joppa), where Jonah got on a ship to try to get far away from Yahweh had sent him.

Israel has a very long history.
Abraham's son Isaac dug this wel
nearly 4,000 years ago!

The bedouins, some of Abraham's descendants who are neither Arabs nor Jews, still live in tents just like he did.

A typical altar
on which animals were sacrificed.

The Sinai Desert, which the Israelites crossed
after the Exodus from Egypt.

Mount Nebo,
the only place from which Moshe (Moses)
was allowed to view the Promised Land.

The view he had from there before he died.

The Yarden (Jordan) River,
which Yehoshua led Israel across
into the Promised Land.

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Reconstruction of
a typical city wall
at Dan.

Here you can see how Rahav's house
was built right into the city walls.

A model showing how strong
some cities' gates were.
This city is Megiddo.

Towers in the wall of the original city of Jerusalem.
From them hot oil or heavy stones
could be dropped on an attacking enemy.

From this brook David picked up stones
to kill the giant Golyath and his brothers.

En Gedi is where David hid in a cave
and cut off the fringe of King Shaul's garment.

A harp much like the one
King David played.

The elders of a city
had a special seat in the gate
where they would sit as judges.

But the Northern Kingdom
wanted to be just like the other nations
and turned away from serving Yahweh alone.

So Yahweh scattered them into all nations.
This is the Yezreel Valley.
Yezreel means "Yahweh will scatter"
but it can also mean "Yahweh will sow",
because a sown seed later grows up to bear much fruit.
The white cliff across the valley is at Natzereth,
where Y'shua the Messiah grew up.
He came to restore the "Lost Sheep of the House of Israel".

Like His ancestor David,
Y'shua was born at Beth Lehem,
which means "House of Bread".

He lived during the time
the Roman Empire occupied the Land of Israel.

A very well-preserved Roman stadium
built 2,000 years ago.

Y'shua spent much of His time
near the Sea of Galilee.
In Hebrew it is called the Kinnereth,
which means "harp",
because that is what it is shaped like.

A millstone in Israel's Golan Heights.
Y'shua said anyone who caused a child to sin
would do best to have a millstone tied around his neck
and be thrown into the sea.

A model of how the Temple in Jerusalem
looked in Y'shua's time.

Gath-Shmaney, where Y'shua struggled to decide
to obey Yahweh instead of doing what He felt like.
Because of that decision,
the lost tribes of Israel could be
brought back into friendship with Yahweh.

Gulgolethah, where Y'shua
paid the price for us to return.
Can you see why it is called "the place of the skull"?

Because Yahweh raised Y'shua from the dead,
we can celebrate His festivals with joy,
knowing that we have the promise of sharing in His Kingdom
if we have confidence in Him and obey His words.