Research & Background Reading

Guidebooks:

• Fodor’s Israel, 7th Edition
• Lonely Planet: Israel and the Palestinian Territories
• Frommer’s Israel

Hiking Israel:

• Israel National Parks and Nature Reserves – Azaria Alon
• Hike the land of Israel – Jacob Saar
• Hiking in Israel – Ya’akov Shkolnik

Pilgrimage:

• Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades – John Wilkinson
• Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage – Craig Bartholomew
• Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage – Christian George
• The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred – Phil Cousineau
• Travel as a Political Act – Rick Steves

Hebrew and Arabic Language Study:

• Colloquial Hebrew – Zippi Lyttleton
• Let’s Speak Arabic; a Course in Colloquial Jerusalem Arabic for Beginners – Omar Othman

Recent History:

• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East – Sandy Tolan
• Blood Brothers – Elias Chacour
• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land – David K. Shipler
• Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses – Bruce Feiler