Galilee Pt. 2

 

The beautiful sunset from our beach at the Kibbutz we stayed at called Ein Gev.

Here we have Gamla, which means Camel in Hebrew/Arabic.  A community of Jewish Zealots lived here during the time of the First Revolt against the Romans in the 1st century A.D.  As they became overrun by Romans, 5000 Jews decided they'd rather die than face the penalty of revolting against the Caesar, so they leapt of the edge.

Sepphoris was the Roman capital of Galilee before Tiberias, and later hosted the Sanhedrin which completed the Mishnah.  This is a picture of the "Mona Lisa of Galilee," a beautiful Greco-Roman mosaic.

This next one is of the guys in my class at Qazrin a Jewish Talmudic Village.

In 1850's German Templers began building colonies in Palestine to await the second coming.  In Haifa, there was such a colony and we visited this German Templar Cemetery there.   In 1892, two missionaries were sent to Haifa and baptized two couples (the Graus and the Kegels.  Both Couples and two missionaries from Utah, (Elder Clark's grave seen here) were buried here.  The significance of these 6 graves lies in a later Israeli policy stating that for a Christian denomination to have presence in Israel, they must have at least 6 members that have passed away by some date after Israel became a state.  (This was in response to the many Christian denominations that wanted to setup in the Holy Land).  These people were prepared so that the Church would be able to exist in the Holy Land today.  Both the Elders from Utah died young and in their missionary service in Haifa, and thus the broken column represents a life cut short.