The Holy Land Tour Is a Life Changing Experience.

What does an average person know about Israel? We didn’t know a lot when we lived in Soviet Union. And what we knew was nothing but misinformation. Mass Media, TV, socialist political propaganda did a good job in brain-washing us. Internet with its world wide web was way ahead in future. The iron curtain was very strong. There was absolutely no way to learn the truth. And nevertheless, people managed to dig out separate pieces of information from underground. Bible was prohibited and reading it could bring troubles. People were prosecuted just for possessing the Book or for having foreign connections. And still, the most courageous ones managed to spread the word of truth.

We were not courageous, we were average. We were satisfied with what we had, because we didn’t know anything else. We knew that Israel was a militarized society, and imagination drew a gray colored picture of dusty streets with marching soldiers and running tanks. Little did we know that Israel was a blooming place revived from sands and bogs. Land of milk and honey, Eretz Halav Udvash. I'd wish we had an opportunity to visit Holy Land before.

Now Israeli tours are very popular and there are many different tours of the holy land: Christian holy land tours, Israel vacation packages (that include hotels in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Tiberia and Eilat), Israel tour packages (including car rental in Israel) and also private Holy Land tours.

Holy Land tours can cover anything you are looking for and even more. In any case, visiting Holy Land and touring Israel will be a life changing experience for those who had love for Israel before and for those who didn’t know truth about this Holy Land.

Israel trip can change your vision after you see for yourself the beauty and courage of this land.

In the years of Ottoman Empire occupying Palestine (as Israel was named those days), Turks root out the green woods to make coal. For many years Palestine became an empty land of sand, stones and swamps. When Jews got the Promised Land back they blew a new life into it. It took years of hard work and sweat to make it Eretz Halav Udvash (Land of Milk and Honey) again. Every single tree in Israel is hand planted. The first tree used to die, but roots stayed under the ground. The second tree planted in the same place often times died as well, leaving its roots mingled with the roots of the first tree. And only the third tree usually acclimatized successfully, its roots being strengthened with the roots of previous trees. This is also true about people coming back to live in the land of their ancestors, in the land from where they were driven away so many times. The third generation used to develop deep roots in the country.

Now Israel is blooming, very much with the help of Keren Kayemet Le Israel (The Jewish National Fund), nonprofit corporation which is planting trees and shrubs, cleaning the sites and promoting tourism to the most wonderful land in the Universe.

When we came to USA for the first time, to meet my friend with whom I fell in love over letters and phone talks, we visited Wisconsin, land of lakes and woods. My son, still a child then, said with genuine admiration, “Wow, just to think how much work it took to plant all those woods!”.

When my future husband was planning to visit us in Israel, people around used to tell him, “You must be out of your mind to go to this dangerous place,” for what my husband would answer, “I think it won’t be more life threatening than going to suburbs of metropolitan cities here in the U.S”.

Israel spreads from north to south for 292 miles and from west to east for 84 miles in the widest place. You can cross it in several hours. It has several climate zones, from snow on the Mount Hermon to desert and tropics. When my friends living in Israel got married, they got a book about places to visit in Israel. They were travelling by car every other weekend by the book sites. They are married for 11 years by now. They didn’t cover the entire book yet.

Not to make this hub too long, I will break my story in parts. I will say nothing about political side of the country on purpose, as it is not the point here. I would just like to show Israel, the beautiful land I love.

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