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leon gork tour guide
Dec 22, 20246 min read
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leon gork tour guide
Aug 29, 20243 min read
Christian love of Israel
This is a copy of a letter sent to a Christian friend who loves Israel. I think it could be written to all Christians who love Israel, so...
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 19, 20245 min read
The Path in the Valley
Bandy legs, arms bent at his side, pumping backwards and forwards like the pistons of a heavy truck, I see him wobbling up the hill, as I...
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leon gork tour guide
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Grilled Fish
I was just saying to Ettie as we drove towards Tel Aviv that I’m not going to any expensive restaurants. We get better food and more of...
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Ecce Homo Arch
Hadrian’s building operations in Jerusalem. The Ecce Homo Arch forms the 2nd station of the Cross, commemorating the site where Pontius...
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 1, 20231 min read
The Wailing Wall
The Jewish religion does not leave the two important activities in life, mourning or wailing and rejoicing to chance. The fact is that...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 11, 20211 min read
The Festival of Tisha B'Av
The month of Av is the saddest month of the Jewish year.When the temple was destroyed on the 9th of Av.Which works out to Sunday 18th...
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leon gork tour guide
Jul 8, 20214 min read
Jerusalem a city of many worlds
The two young girls stood inside the gate, awaiting my arrival. I had promised to meet Chloe, who my cousin Margot, who lives in America,...
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leon gork tour guide
May 2, 20212 min read
Breaking the Rule
My search for shortcuts had begun at a very young age. You may think it absurd, but I think it began already when I was a baby sucking on...
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leon gork tour guide
May 1, 20212 min read
The Traffic Jam
The road worker, dressed in an orange protective suit, blocked our way and the way of dozens of other cars behind us. Waving his hands he...
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leon gork tour guide
Dec 5, 20205 min read
Covid Days 1
I wanted to be a writer but constant pressure to make a living, left me without any time to become one. Covid 19 changed that situation. Now
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leon gork tour guide
Nov 16, 20205 min read
Rendezvous with Noga
Dying of starvation, at 12 Ettie asked, am I hungry. The midday meal would be ready in another hour.
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leon gork tour guide
Nov 14, 20204 min read
Tel Aviv journey
Etti lowered her feet from the bed to the floor, slowly as usual. I was in the kitchen, following my routine
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leon gork tour guide
Feb 24, 20201 min read
Plants in the Negev after the rain
Some pictures, I took of plants in the Negev desert and some bits of information about them.
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
Mar 16, 20191 min read
Leon's No Newsletter: The Vanishing Valley
One can only appreciate the name, Vanishing Valley, by going there, carefully, because it starts out at the top of the Barkan, one of the...
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Leon Gork Jerusalem
Sep 13, 20182 min read
The Garden of Gethsemane.
Jesus' suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus presents the world with a new idea, the need to lose the body in order to bring salv
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leon gork tour guide
Mar 12, 20165 min read
Leon's No Newsletter 234
Being forever short of time The tourists have left me in the lurch again and I’ve had to find new ways of amusing myself. I’m rushing...
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