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Comment: These are Israeli military bunkers built in one of the wars. Jericho is in the distance. Again here you get a sense of how far down it is to Jericho from the surrounding hills. It would have been quite a trip to march an army up from Jericho to Ai.
This is near the edge of the hills overlooking the Jordan Valley (on the left) facing south toward the Dead Sea. That's my Dad and Daniel.

This is a view overlooking modern Jericho. It's too bad it was hazy but I think this is typical for the summer. I think it's clearer in the Spring.
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This is a shot from down near the plains. It is near Herod's winter palace. I guess this was the Florida of ancient Israel. While Jerusalem got cold in the winter, with the occasional snow fall, the Jordan valley stayed warm all year round.

These are some of the remains of Herod's winter palace.

This is another shot of the excavations of Herod's palace. Notice the interesting diamond shaped bricks.

We met this camel at the Jericho Tel.

The camel was having a breakfast of oranges. He ate the oranges whole, peal and all and after a couple of chomps would reach for another one. Note the Hebrew on the orange box. The word in the lower right corner should be decipherable to any first year Hebrew student.
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This slide show is dedicated to my mother who made possible our summer 2000 visit to Israel.