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Looking back at Tel Aviv from Yafo (aka Jaffa or Joppa)
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The itinerary that we follow on our tours to Israel<\/a> invariably takes us to Tel Aviv on the first night. \u00a0We stay in the Dan Panorama Hotel \u2014 great name, no? \u2014 which is right across the street from the park and the beach that you can see (in the distance, across the water) in the photo above. \u00a0(Please click on the image to enlarge it. \u00a0The Dan Panorama Hotel is in that first cluster of high-rises toward the right of the photograph.)<\/p>\n

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My wife and I prefer, when possible, to arrive a day early. \u00a0That way, we get a bit of extra sleep \u2014 I like to be less jet-lagged than my tour group, if I can \u2014 and have the next day to walk in the sun, which is a good thing to do in order to overcome jet-lag. \u00a0We always do an easy stroll, and invite others who may have arrived a bit early to join us, along the beach to Yafo, which is also known as Jaffa or, in the New Testament, as Joppa.<\/p>\n

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Joppa is one of the oldest cities in the Near East, while Tel Aviv , which is far larger, was only established in the twentieth century. \u00a0Joppa is also very pretty, situated on a slightly elevated promontory that juts out into the Mediterranean. \u00a0It\u2019s something of an arts center today, shared by both Jews and Arabs.<\/p>\n

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It was from Joppa, according to the Old Testament, that the prophet Jonah set out, seeking to escape the Lord\u2019s call for him to preach in Nineveh. \u00a0And it was in Joppa, in the house of Simon the Tanner, that the apostle Peter received his vision of the clean and unclean beasts, which paved the way for taking the Gospel to the gentiles. \u00a0According to Greek mythology, it was also at Joppa that Andromeda<\/a> was chained to a rock as an offering to the sea monster Cetus, from which she was saved by the hero Perseus \u2014 one of the earliest surviving \u201cprincess and the dragon\u201d stories.<\/p>\n

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