Hula Nature Reserve location is between the Galilee Mountains and the Golan Heights, this place serves as one of the prime wintering sites for a wide variety of birds in the Middle East.
One day we took a tour on safari (secret) wagon with instructor which showed us thousands of cranes, pelicans and herons seating on the plain sureface of water.
We saw how some of them were coming to those who already found their place. Cranes travel by family groups finding each other by their relative voice. So we saw and heard how they do that.
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North Israel city Nahariya
Israeli sportsman Shahar Tzuberi wins his first Olympic medal in Beijing Olimpic Games after ranking third in men’s RS:X windsurfing sail. He won an Olympic bronze medal Wednesday, after finishing his 10th RS:X windsurfing sail at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in third place. Olympic RS:X gold went to New Zealand’s Tom Ashley, with France taking the silver.
The 19-year-old surfer from Eilat was considered one of the Israeli Olympic team’s best hopes for a medal, Israel News reports. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was among the first to congratulate Tzuberi after his triumph. “You have no idea how excited we all are for you,” he told the 19-year-old.
This is Israel’s third Olympic sailing medal. Israeli sailor Gal Fridman won the bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the gold at the 2004 Athens Games.
Tzuberi’s teammate Maayan Davidovitz finished her 10th and last RS:X windsurfing sail in the sixth place, ranking 10th overall.
There were military operation in Tels Aviv center near Rabin fountain yeasterday. But militarists were fitted with water pistols and other water appurtenances that helped them to throw water on each other. Taking into account water crisis they used water from the fountain.
Walking along Tel Aviv I have never tired. I love this city with it’s narrow and cosy old streets and full of sun, modern new ones, every stone and every twig speeks to you there.
If it’s happen in our days 
There is snow in Israel! I don’t know is it good or not so, climate
changing or something else happened in heaven, but this is wonderful.
Children are happy especially.
Throughout the afternoon I watched them there,
Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky,
Whirling fantastic in the misty air,
Contending fierce for space supremacy.
Every time being in old Jaffa I see this tree. The seeing brings me mixed, hard explained feelings and you maybe guess why but now I’m not about.
Do you know that actually Tel Aviv began as a suburb of Jaffa in 1950 and Jaffa was first established after the Flood by Noah’s son Japheth, from whom the town took its name. Jonah, it is said, was swallowed by a whale after he left the port of Jaffa, and Peter performed the Miracle of Tabitha here. A Hebrew etymology indicates that the city is called Jaffa because of its beauty (yofi in Hebrew). The Hellenist tradition links the name to “Iopeia”, which is Cassiopeia, the mother of Andromeda. However the Hellenist accounting for the name dates from hundreds of years after the original naming. So in mythology, Andromeda was chained to a rock in Jaffa port and till now you can see the rock there.
First inhabited 4,000 years ago, Jaffa was once a Philistine town. Later King Solomon used the port to bring cedars from Lebanon which were used for the great Temple in Jerusalem. Though King Herod built Caesarea to replace Jaffa as his main port, Jaffa became important again under Moslem and Crusader rule. The town then declined until the 19th century, when it began to grow in size and influence.
So crowded did Jaffa become that a group of Jews decided to leave Jaffa’s lively, noisy and dirty environs to create a garden suburb which would become Tel Aviv. They bought uninhabited sand dunes north of Jaffa, formed an association called “Ahuzat Bayit” and divided property into parcels of land by drawing lots. The romantic name Tel Aviv (“Hill of Spring”) was chosen for the new community in 1910 partly because of its associations with rebirth and revitalization, and partly because it recalled the vision of Ezekiel. In the biblical Tel Aviv of Babylon, the exiled prophet saw the vision of animated dry bones, which drew him back to Israel. Yet another association is with Theodor Herzl’s visionary book “Alteneuland”. “Tel Aviv” is the free Hebrew translation of that title.
Last Friday I’d decided to take a walk along old city of Acco with the photo camera in my hands of course. By the way, if you don’t know Acco’s Old City has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is very old city with fantastic rich history. During centuries the city had such different names as Tel ‘Akko, Tell el-Fukhkhar, Tell el-Fukhar, Acca, Accho, Acon, Acre, Acri, Ake, ‘Akka, Antiochenes, Antiochia Ptolemais, Ptolemais Antiochenes, Ocina, St. Jean d’Acre. We can find the record of Acco in the New Testament, at that time Acco was known as Ptolemais, and was one of the stops on Paul’s final return to Jerusalem. Ptolemais was situated on the main sea and land route in ancient times. It served as the main port of the region until Caesarea was built. But now I’m not going to tell you Acco’s history at all just would like to show you results turned out my walking through.
There are a lot of wonderful places you can visit traveling in Israel. First of all this is Jerusalem of course. Without Jerusalem the land of Israel is as a body without a soul, this fascinating place attracts like a magnet with its grandiose ancient past filled with multitude of events. The importance of historical role of Jerusalem can scarcely be exaggerated. Eternity is Jerusalem, but not only. Traveling through Israel again and again you find yourself walking in the exact places where the events of the Bible unfolded, you may hear the Muslim call to prayer competing with the clanging of bells from Christian churches and the prayers of Jews bobbing before the Western Wall. Such geographical names as Bethlehem, Nazareth, Tiberias and others covered with glory Israeli cities names we have heard from childhood.
But at the same time there need be no doubt that Israel is a bustling, noisy, modern country. So, I’m sure if you have not visited Israel yet you are planing to. Searching trough the internet for travel information pay attention on Travel Directory provided resources on travel related websites and pages where you will find links to the most fabulous and informative Israel travel resources and websites that will help you to make right choice.
