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Nir > Stock photo of the Greek Orthodox Church at Capernaum, Kefar Nachum, which was a settlement on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750. The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been the home of the apostles Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew. In Matthew 4:13 the town was reported to have been the home of Jesus himself. According to Luke 4:31-44, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum on the sabbath days. In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil and healed a fever in Simon Peter's mother-in-law. According to Matthew 8:5-13, it is also the place where a Roman Centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant. A building which may have been a synagogue of that period has been found beneath the remains of a later synagogue. Shot January 2008.
Nir > Stock photo of a monument erected in memory of 69 Israeli sailors lost at sea on the Israel Navy Ship submarine DAKAR. Purchased in the UK the Dakar was lost at sea in 1968 on its maden voyage to Israel with a crew of 69 sailors. For over 31 years there were no clues of the submarine's whereabouts albeit 25 search operations. In 1999 the Dakar was finally found between Cyprus and Crete at a depth of 2900 meters only 500Km away from Israeli shores. Shot August 2007 at Mt. Hertzel Military Cemetery in Jerusalem Israel.
Nir > Cesarea, Caesarea, Caesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina, a city built by Herod the Great about 13BC. Today, the city lies on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the modern day cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city was described in detail by 1st century Jewish historian Josephus for the massacre of Jews at this place led to the Jewish rebellion and to the Roman war. The civil life of the new city began in 13 BC, when Caesarea was made the civil and military capital of Judaea, and the official residence of the Roman procurators and governors, Pontius Pilatus, praefectus and Antonius Felix. After the Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba, which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, Caesarea became the center of Christianity in Palestine. Shot May 2007.
Nir > Cesarea, Caesarea, Caesarea Maritima , Caesarea Palaestina, a city built by Herod the Great about 13BC. Today, the city lies on the Mediterranean coast of Israel about halfway between the modern day cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city was described in detail by 1st century Jewish historian Josephus for the massacre of Jews at this place led to the Jewish rebellion and to the Roman war. The civil life of the new city began in 13 BC, when Caesarea was made the civil and military capital of Judaea, and the official residence of the Roman procurators and governors, Pontius Pilatus, praefectus and Antonius Felix. After the Jewish revolt led by Simon Bar Kokhba, which ended with the destruction of Jerusalem, Caesarea became the center of Christianity in Palestine. Shot May 2007.
Nir > Stock photo of the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey Dormition of Our Lady Monastery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. Built on the location of the Last Supper according to tradition this is also where Mary lived and died. The land was bought by the German Emperor Wilhelm II from the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1898. The first Benedictine monks arrived in 1906.
Nir > Stock photo of Old City Jerusalem walls and ramparts in early morning sun. Surrounding an area of less than one square kilometer the walls were built in the 16th century by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman.
Nir > Stock photo of the windmill in the neighborhood of Yamin Moshe in Jerusalem. Named after the British Jewish philanthropist, Sir Moses Moshe Montefiorie, who established the first Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem in the 19th century. Shot August 2006.
Nir > Stock photo of the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey Dormition of Our Lady Monastery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. Built on the location of the Last Supper according to tradition this is also where Mary lived and died. The land was bought by the German Emperor Wilhelm II from the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1898. The first Benedictine monks arrived in 1906. In the foreground an Arab candied nut peddler is selling his merchandise to tourists.
Nir > Stock photo of the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey Dormition of Our Lady Monastery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. Built on the location of the Last Supper according to tradition this is also where Mary lived and died. The land was bought by the German Emperor Wilhelm II from the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid in 1898. The first Benedictine monks arrived in 1906. Photo displays a nun standing near the entrance to the abbey.
Stock photo of the Greek Orthodox Church at Capernaum, Kefar Nachum, which was a settlement on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750. The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been the home of the apostles Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew. In Matthew 4:13 the town was reported to have been the home of Jesus himself. According to Luke 4:31-44, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum on the sabbath days. In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil and healed a fever in Simon Peter's mother-in-law. According to Matthew 8:5-13, it is also the place where a Roman Centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant. A building which may have been a synagogue of that period has been found beneath the remains of a later synagogue. Shot January 2008.
Nir > Stock photo of the Greek Orthodox Church at Capernaum, Kefar Nachum, which was a settlement on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750. The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been the home of the apostles Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew. In Matthew 4:13 the town was reported to have been the home of Jesus himself. According to Luke 4:31-44, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum on the sabbath days. In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil and healed a fever in Simon Peter's mother-in-law. According to Matthew 8:5-13, it is also the place where a Roman Centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant. A building which may have been a synagogue of that period has been found beneath the remains of a later synagogue. Shot January 2008.
Stock photo of the Greek Orthodox Church at Capernaum, Kefar Nachum, which was a settlement on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The site is a ruin today, but was inhabited from 150 BC to about AD 750. The town is mentioned in the New Testament: in the Gospel of Luke it was reported to have been the home of the apostles Peter, Andrew, James and John, as well as the tax collector Matthew. In Matthew 4:13 the town was reported to have been the home of Jesus himself. According to Luke 4:31-44, Jesus taught in the synagogue in Capernaum on the sabbath days. In Capernaum also, Jesus allegedly healed a man who had the spirit of an unclean devil and healed a fever in Simon Peter's mother-in-law. According to Matthew 8:5-13, it is also the place where a Roman Centurion asked Jesus to heal his servant. A building which may have been a synagogue of that period has been found beneath the remains of a later synagogue. Shot January 2008.
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