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32 ❯❯ Top 10 Israel and Petra Highlights

Sea of Galilee

Known as the Kinneret in Hebrew, Israel’s largest freshwater lake
is 13 miles (21 km) long, 8 miles (13 km) wide, and about 720 ft
(220 m) below sea level. The largest town on the lakeshore is
Tiberias, famed for its hot springs and tombs of illustrious rabbis.
Along the perimeter are a number of important Jewish and early
Christian sites associated with Jesus. In between are beaches,
protected wetlands, water parks, bike paths, and hiking trails.
Ancient
3
Galilee Boat
A 27-ft (8.2-m) wooden
fishing boat (left) that
sailed the Sea of Galilee
in the 1st century AD,
possibly in the time of
Jesus, is on display near
where it was discovered
in 1986, along with an
Hamat
Kinneret
1 2 explanatory movie.
Cemetery
Tiberias
Mount of
Socialist-Zionist pioneers National Park 4
from the late 19th and A gorgeous zodiac wheel Beatitudes
early 20th centuries, mosaic in a 4th-century Jesus’ Sermon on the
including figures such synagogue is the center- Mount may have been
as Berl Katznelson and piece of this site, which delivered on this hillside,
the poetess Rachel, are also features hot springs which has attracted
buried in this peaceful and an 18th-century Christian pilgrims since
lakeside cemetery. Turkish hammam. the 4th century. Today’s
domed chapel dates
NEED TO KNOW Church of the Primacy of from 1938. Views of
the lake, 394 ft (120 m)
MAP B5–6, C5–6 St. Peter: open 8am–5pm below, are awe-inspiring.
daily
Visitor Information:
HaBanim St, Tiberias; Magdala: open 8am–6pm
(04) 672 5666; www. daily; adm; www.magdala.
goisrael.com org
Hamat Tiberias, Korazim, Mount of Beatitudes: open
and Kursi national parks: 8–11:45am, 2–4:45pm
open 8am–4pm Sat–Thu, daily; parking fee
to 3pm Fri (1 hr later dur­ Capernaum: open 8am–
ing daylight saving), last 5pm
entry 1 hr before closing; Monastery of the Twelve 87
adm; www.parks.org.il
Apostles: open 9am–5pm
Tabgha
Ancient Galilee Boat: Yigal (to 6pm in summer) 5 90 Tabgha
Alon Centre; open 8am– The Church of Ginosar
5pm daily; adm; www. Kinneret Cemetery: Hwy the Multiplication of Sea of
bet­alon.co.il 90, 6 miles (10 km) S of the Loaves and Fishes Galilee
Tiberias 92
Church of the Multiplication (above) and the small Tiberias
of the Loaves and Fishes: • The marked Shvil Sovev Church of the Primacy of Ein Gev
open 8am–5pm Mon–Fri Kinneret trail covers 22 St. Peter mark the spots 90
(to 3pm Sat), Eucharist miles (35 km) of the lake’s where Jesus is believed Ha-On’
9am Sun 37-mile (60-km) perimeter. to have preached and Kinneret
performed miracles. 92
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Eyewitness Travel – Top 10 series LAYERS PRINTED:
Three-column, 8.25pt grid “UK” LAYER
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Date 12th May 2015
Size 100mm x 191mm