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Israel was as culturally diverse as any place I have been. Entering through Tele Aviv, a highly developed urban city, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, it was teeming with beaches, bars and discotheques.

I traveled north to Haifa, and then southward through Nazareth, Jericho and onto Jerusalem. Jerusalem was a virtual melting pot of the worlds major religions and again revealed how culturally diverse and densely populated the region was.

My fascination continued as we traveled again southward, through Beersheba and onto the Negev Desert, where biblical history places Moses and the Hebrew tribes wanderings for 40 years. Unlike any desert I had seen or imagined it was truly the embodiment of wilderness.

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