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	<title>Fun Joel's Israel</title>
	
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		<title>Israel Mystery Photo #20</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Time for another of my Israel Mystery Photo posts &#8212; a series of photos in which you as tourists try to recognize where in Israel each photo was taken, and I as tour guide explain and give more information on the previous mystery photo! I knew the last one would be a bit tough, since [...]<br/>
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		<title>Visiting the Israeli Air Force Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 01:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ahead of next week&#8217;s Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) holidays, I thought a post about the Israeli Air Force Museum would be appropriate. The Air Force Museum is located at Hatzerim Air Force Base, just southwest of the Negev city of Beersheva. Though many people know about and visit [...]<br/>
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		<title>Spring is Springing in Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culinary Israel]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about food in Israel is that almost all of our produce is grown locally and is only available when it is in season. While I sometimes miss being able to make any dish at any time of year, like I could in the States, I know this is more environmentally [...]<br/>
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		<title>Israel Mystery Photo #19</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Now that the new website is up and running, I have been able to get back to posting on a more frequent basis. And in so doing, I want to finally get back to the Israel Mystery Photo posts I started a while back! To refresh your memory, these are a series of pictures I&#8217;ve [...]<br/>
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		<title>Exploring Herod’s Tomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Herod the Great is a tour guide&#8217;s dream. He is such a colorful and complex character that he offers as many good stories as amazing sites to marvel at. He was an unparalleled builder, a bloodthirsty madman who killed many members of his own family, an egotist with major insecurities, a paranoid who suspected both [...]<br/>
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		<title>Welcome to My Updated Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have been working for a long time now to upgrade this website. Before I received my Israel tour guide license, I mainly maintained this site as a blog, focused both on Israeli tourism and on the tour guide course I was taking. The plan all along was that once I began officially working, I [...]<br/>
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		<title>Jerusalem From The Inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Of all the annual cultural events, festivals and public spectacles in Jerusalem, Batim MiBifnim/Houses From Within stands alone. To those lovers of Jerusalem who have been before, it is one of the most anticipated events of the year, while to many others it remains one of the most overlooked treasures in the city&#8217;s cultural calendar. [...]<br/>
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		<title>Why You Should Hire a Tour Guide in Israel – Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israeli Tourism]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Part 1 of this post, I highlighted two of my top five reasons you should hire a tour guide for your visit to Israel. I spoke about a tour guide&#8217;s ability to take you to places off the beaten track &#8212; places you would probably never have visited on your own, but which were [...]<br/>
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		<title>Why You Should Hire a Tour Guide in Israel – Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[A lot of people travel all over the world and explore new places on their own, planning their trips with the help of guide books, websites and friends&#8217; advice. So why should you hire a professional licensed tour guide for your trip to Israel? Certainly a tour guide is an expense that could bump your [...]<br/>
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		<title>Israel: Land of Diversity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fun Joel</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just finished guiding an American family for the past two weeks, and we traveled all over Israel. We left out the Negev (south) because it is too hot in the middle of August, but beyond that, we pretty much hit the rest of the country and got at least a taste of all of [...]<br/>
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