Golan Heights: Controversial Land On the map of Israel, the Golan Heights (Ramat ha-Golan) is a narrow strip bounded by Lake Kinneret in the west and the Yarmuk River in the southeast. This is a volcanic plateau, Israel owns 1,150 square km with a length of 60 km and an average width of 25 km. [...]
Judean Desert in Holy Land Judean Desert on the map is a narrow flap stretching along the western coast of the Dead Sea. On the view from a very great height, it resembles a huge half-erased page of an ancient manuscript, once written by a non-human hand. In this small and now truly desert kingdom [...]
Mount of Olives Jerusalem The Mount of Olives is a three-headed mountain in Jerusalem. Another name is Jebel az-Zeytun (in Arabic), Har Hazeytim (Hebrew). This is the place where you can bring a person who is absolutely unfamiliar with the history of Christianity, and during a long walk through it, tell him almost everything he [...]
