Private tour in Jerusalem Raanan B
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Raanan B.
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I started out my career as a field guide at the Ein Gedi Field Study Center on the shores of the Dead Sea, which I later became the manager of. With time the shores of the Dead Sea have shifted, as have I. I have worked at the Ministry of Environment, at the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, at the Technion Institue and at EU funded projects to promote the protection of nature and the environment. I coordinated the first policy in Israel to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions, the first policy of Sustainable Development and more. If you look at the state of the environment, one might say that I have sort of failed. . . Now, after many years of guiding people as a hobby, I am a certified tour guide who does not aim to compete with other tour guides in remembering dates of events. I compete with them to provide my partners to the tour (you) with an enjoyable experience from which they will come out feeling, knowing and understanding (for example in Jerusalem) much better than when they enterd the Old City several hours earlier, and to make sure that they have had an enjoyable experience. Ceritfied tour guide BSc in Biology (Hebrew University) MPA - Masters in Public Administration (kennedy School of Government, Harvard)
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In a one and a half hour live streaming tour between two churches - Church of Visitation commemorating Mary's visit to Elizabeth, and St. John Ba Harim Church where John the Baptist was born, two churches that comemorate two events that gave Christianity two of the most ancient hymns - The Magnificat or song of Mary, and Benedictus, the song of Zechariah. And in between these two churches we will learn of some unique individuals that came to live in Ein Kerem at the western part of Jerusalem following the charisma of John. These include Saint Marie Alphonsine, Major General Charles Gordon, Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, sister in law of the last Russian Zar, all followed the forerunner's place of birth and where he grew as a child. We will walk through the picturesque alleys of the village that has not changed much during the last 2000 years, imagine him walking beside us and perhaps better understand his childhood. You can see a promo of my live streaming tours at https://youtu.be/j6AzL91UwY8
* Church of Visitation * Walk down to Charles Gordon's 138 year old mulberry tree * Mary's Spring * Yochanan Beharim Church
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
You will be at your home in front of a screen - your computer or phone screen. I will be at the Church of Visitation.
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