No journey to Israel would be complete without going to the places responsible for causing a significant portion of the religious tension in the Middle East – Jerusalem and Bethlehem. We had already explored the religious cornucopia of Jerusalem, so the next logical step was to board a bus and head over the 1948 UN Armistice Line and into the Palestinian territories. This trip was to contain one of the most surreal experiences of my life, as well as one of the most humbling.
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I S R A E L (part 1 – Jerusalem)
Israel was to be our 5th and final country – and a logical place to end the trip, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, budget airlines such as EasyJet and Jet2 provide regular services to the UK from Tel Aviv, reducing the cost of getting home and secondly, whilst you cannot enter Syria or Lebanon with an Israeli stamp in your passport, you are able to enter Israel with a Syria/Lebanon stamp. This sounds straightforward in principle, yet ended up involving interviews with the Israeli Defence Force and almost being strip searched.
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