It was Jill’s first time in Israel, a trip that she had waited a lifetime to make. After a few days, she kept unintentionally repeating a phrase that became the running joke of our small group- “It just feels like home!” In our experience this is not unusual to hear this or to have someone to exclaim “I could move here!” If you have never been to Israel and later question what they mean, they may have trouble explaining how deep from within that comment came. They may just s

The Bible talks about a time when the Dead Sea will have fresh water and fisherman will fish in it. No one fishes there now because... well, everything is dead. However, in the last several years around the Dead Sea many public beaches have shut down, roads have been closed and rerouted and buildings have been swallowed up by sinkholes. The sinkholes are caused by underground fresh water springs dissolving or diluting the salty geology until the ground caves in. In addition,