Haifa, Israel

Haifa, Israel; 1983

Business trip to Haifa in the summer of 1983, for a little over two weeks. Was doing some work at the Technion University, and as is typical with most business trips there was very little free time for touring. As it was, barely had one free weekend there. Spent one afternoon at a maritime museum in Haifa that was excellent, but apparently I have no pics of that. If I find any, I’ll update the page, because there were a lot of interesting items in the museum. The other free day I had was spent out driving in the country out near the Sea of Galilee. Nevertheless, I had a great time there and have a lot of nice memories of my stay.

View from our Hotel, the Nof Hotel on Mt. Carmel, overlooking Haifa

St. Peters house (obviously). Doubt he had a corrugated metal roof on it when he lived there though.

A couple of my colleagues and friends. Tom Foster with his wife Londi, and Ernie Fretter. We’re out at the Sea of Galilee

Snapshot of the Sea

Driving thru a Druze village

Think this is one of the Druze villages we had driven thru

Haifa

Entrance to the Baha’i Gardens

Baha’i Gardens

Yours truly walking in from the Sea of Galilee. Photo credit: Ernie Fretter

View from my hotel in Tel Aviv. This is all I saw of that city.

Tel Aviv looking the other direction

Was told this was the Golan Heights. Didn’t have a map, so I’m not positive. There were a fair number of military vehicles parked out in the scrubs though. Keep in mind, this was 1983, and thing have changed considerably since then