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Israel and the Sinai Desert
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Middle East (2 discs) DVD $29.95 buy now
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The Holy Lands of Israel and the Sinai
Desert sit at the crossroads three continents
- Asia, Africa and Europe - and three great religions
- Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It's the Jewish
Promised Land, the land of Jesus and where Mohammed
ascended to Heaven.
The fate of Israel has been varied, religious and
political throughout its turbulent past and equally
turbulent present. Two mammoth tasks make Israel unique,
as a gathering of the nation of Jews and the irrigation
of a desert into a homeland.
Israel is a land of contrasts, from ragged deserts
to ripe farmlands, cosmopolitan skylines, from pious
religions and pilgrimages, to a mecca for technology.
It's a nation which mixes the old and the new, from
the cradle of civilisation - where human culture first
developed to modern urban life.
Read the full story -
background and travel essentials
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| Guide written by Susi O'Neill |
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