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Almost since its inception, Israel has been in conflict. What role does war play in shaping the Jewish states’ identity?
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I’m on a bus in Israel leaving the airport. It’s very early in the morning. The day is already so hot you can see waves of heat shimmering off the highway.
It??s hard not to love David Farley.
He??s the poster-child of a Walking Party travel writer. He eloped to Italy with fellow travel writer Jessie Sholl. He watched a pig get slaughtered outside of Prague and used that for his contribution to Traveler??s Tales Prague (which he also co-edited with Sholl).
More recently he has become a sort of Indiana Jones for the Gen-X set (his current book is on the search for Jesus Christ??s foreskin which, up until 1983, was allegedly preserved in the Italian hill-town of Calcata).
Churches, temples, mosques, synagogues ?? whatever faith they belong to, and wherever they are in the world, these holy places almost always make it onto the tourist’s itinerary.
We come out of curiosity about another country’s religious traditions, or to see the incredible artistic and architectural creations, or simply to soak in that solemn, reverential vibe so strikingly absent from almost all other aspects of modern life.
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