The beautiful Golan Heights...what a place! Sadly it was a rainy day the day I went, so I couldn't see an awful lot of scenery...but it was still absolutely gorgeous! So much has happened just within the Golan Heights! So many lives have been sacrificed just for the land! Like for example, 9000 died at the hands of Romans just in one day at Gamla!
We went to Bethsadia first. It was recently found and it costed $50 million to excavate! Thankfully Israel didn't pay anything at all for this excavation! It's quite the thing! It was Peter, Andrew, Philip, James, and John's home town!!! The water used to come all the way up to the towns edge! But there was an earthquake so that caused the water to no longer exist there. While at Bethsadia you can see were Yeshua Cursed the 3 towns. Chorazin, Bethsadia and Capernim. You can also see Kursi and that's were Yeshua cast the demons out of the man and the demons went into the pigs! Then the pigs were crazy so they ran into the lake and died.
We went to a couple short movies. The first one was about the beautiful scenery. It had mist and wind while watching the movie!! It was so cool!! The second one was about how the Romans killed the Jews living on Gamla. It's sickening knowing that a roman would rather die knowing that he killed a Jew than not! 5000 were killed by the Romans and 4000 ran off the mountain trying to escape. That was all in 1 day!!! The Jews were just living their normal everyday lives one day then the next they were all killed!! That would be scary!! You can go up to Gamla and see the original Synagog from when the Jews lived on Gamla. We didn't go because we didn't have enough time and it was raining.
We also got to go to the Olive Factory! You walk in and you see the tools that were used to press the olives back in the day! You also get to wash your hands with an olive scrub! It's smells amazing!! We also got to taste the different types of olive oils! They were yummy!!
We also went to the original battlefield from the tank wars during the 67 war. They have a memorial site were they have the names of the Israeli soldiers that died there. They also have an original tank from that war! There is something scary about going there though...there are mines still in the ground from that 67 war!! Creepy! WATCH YOUR STEP! lol
Then we went to another memorial site. It's were the Syrians bunkered and shot the Jews living down the hill. They have a list of all the names of the Jews that were killed. Most of the names were from children. SO SAD! The Syrians favorite target was children! Thankfully the Israeli's took action and paratrooped from behind the Syrians and shot them! They won! The Israelis were saved again! It got too dark to see anything so we headed back to the car to head home...but Elijah got lost! We found him and he was SO scared! Well who wouldn't be! It was dark and mom and dad weren't there!! He was fine though. ;) right across the road from the memorial site there is a coffee shop. The coffee shop is owned by a survivor paratrooper! He is still there! We didn't get to meet him though ;)
So that was our fun educational day!
Below are some more pictures from our trip to the Golan. The first one is a origianl roman sword, the second one is 2000 year old earings found at Gamla and the third one is orginal coins found at Gamla.
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We went to Bethsadia first. It was recently found and it costed $50 million to excavate! Thankfully Israel didn't pay anything at all for this excavation! It's quite the thing! It was Peter, Andrew, Philip, James, and John's home town!!! The water used to come all the way up to the towns edge! But there was an earthquake so that caused the water to no longer exist there. While at Bethsadia you can see were Yeshua Cursed the 3 towns. Chorazin, Bethsadia and Capernim. You can also see Kursi and that's were Yeshua cast the demons out of the man and the demons went into the pigs! Then the pigs were crazy so they ran into the lake and died.
We went to a couple short movies. The first one was about the beautiful scenery. It had mist and wind while watching the movie!! It was so cool!! The second one was about how the Romans killed the Jews living on Gamla. It's sickening knowing that a roman would rather die knowing that he killed a Jew than not! 5000 were killed by the Romans and 4000 ran off the mountain trying to escape. That was all in 1 day!!! The Jews were just living their normal everyday lives one day then the next they were all killed!! That would be scary!! You can go up to Gamla and see the original Synagog from when the Jews lived on Gamla. We didn't go because we didn't have enough time and it was raining.
We also got to go to the Olive Factory! You walk in and you see the tools that were used to press the olives back in the day! You also get to wash your hands with an olive scrub! It's smells amazing!! We also got to taste the different types of olive oils! They were yummy!! We also went to the original battlefield from the tank wars during the 67 war. They have a memorial site were they have the names of the Israeli soldiers that died there. They also have an original tank from that war! There is something scary about going there though...there are mines still in the ground from that 67 war!! Creepy! WATCH YOUR STEP! lol
Then we went to another memorial site. It's were the Syrians bunkered and shot the Jews living down the hill. They have a list of all the names of the Jews that were killed. Most of the names were from children. SO SAD! The Syrians favorite target was children! Thankfully the Israeli's took action and paratrooped from behind the Syrians and shot them! They won! The Israelis were saved again! It got too dark to see anything so we headed back to the car to head home...but Elijah got lost! We found him and he was SO scared! Well who wouldn't be! It was dark and mom and dad weren't there!! He was fine though. ;) right across the road from the memorial site there is a coffee shop. The coffee shop is owned by a survivor paratrooper! He is still there! We didn't get to meet him though ;) So that was our fun educational day!
Below are some more pictures from our trip to the Golan. The first one is a origianl roman sword, the second one is 2000 year old earings found at Gamla and the third one is orginal coins found at Gamla.
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