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iblatt Says: This is an ancient Byzantine ruin found in the Angels' Forest (see my tip) near Kiryat Gat.The origin of the name is Arabic: Kh'arua means castor-oil plant.The whole area around Kiryat Gat was quite densely populated in the Byzantine period (4th to early 7th century AD). In...
Angels' Forest (Shachariya Forest)
iblatt Says: This 7000 dunam pine forest was planted by the JNF in the 1950s, as part of the forest development plan in the new State of Israel. Pine trees were chosen because the grew fast and created large shaded areas. The disadvantages of planting a single kind of tree were not...
Monument for the 87 Fallen Soldiers
iblatt Says: One of the bloodiest battles of Israel's 1948 War of Independence took place in what is today Qiryat Gat. This was the site of the fortified police station of Iraq-el-Manshiya, built by the British in the late 1930s, and occupied by an Egyptian brigade throughout most of the...
Havat Phillip (Phillip's farm): Labaneh and Lafa (flat bread)
Martin_S. Says: This is what we stop at Phillip's for, the Labaneh and Lafa....ask for it with za'atar and olive oil.
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This is what we stop at Phillip's for, the Labaneh and Lafa....ask for it with za'atar and olive oil.
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Kiryat Gat, not quite a visit yet ...
Well we cannot say we visited Kiryat Gat, it was our "turnover point" where Avi, who had taken Michele to visit Jerusalem, "gave" her to us to bring to Arad... we met Avi halfway so that Michele would...
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