Christian sites: an option for local tourists

Christian sites: an option for local tourists

Travelling is not that easy this summer due to the pandemic restrictions. Therefore, local tourism has boosted. Israel has not been an exception and this situation has strengthened the trend of Israelis visiting the Christian sites in their country.   Haaretz, a local...
Post-Covid19 tour guide course

Post-Covid19 tour guide course

Wednesday June 10, Saxum Visitor Center staff received a group of tour guides after reopening of museums and similar institutions in Israel was allowed. All of them with masks and keeping the security distance, they had the multimedia tour and a course of the Israeli...
Shavuot and Pentecost

Shavuot and Pentecost

The connections between the two holidays Shavuot is the Jewish feast day which commemorates that God gave the Ten Commandments of the Law to Moses in Mount Sinai, after the people of Israel fled from Egypt. That is why it takes place seven weeks after Passover, the...
The Holy Sepuchre remains silent

The Holy Sepuchre remains silent

It’s Friday, 3.00 pm. The sun heats up the Old City of Jerusalem announcing that the end of spring is close. Under the blue masks your own breathing is like an oven for your face. No wonder why many people wear them under their chin if the place is not very crowded....
Going back to Galilee

Going back to Galilee

When Jesus appeared to the women, he told them: “Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee”. That is why we find Peter and the others fishing in the lake as they used to do before. Galilee is the region in which Jesus lived most of his life, working in Nazareth first,...
Hosanna! Following Jesus To Jerusalem

Hosanna! Following Jesus To Jerusalem

In the footsteps of Jesus’ triumphant entry from Bethphage to the Old City. Ten days after I arrived in Israel, I found myself singing “Hosanna”, along with thousands of Christians, in the ancient village of Bethphage. In Bethphage, there is a church that commemorates...