Chapter 8 – Dunrobin Farm

Dubrovin Farm near Yesod Hama’la

Fields with windbreaks of trees

Dubrovin farm was assisted with Christadelphian funds in the 1800s. It has been reconstructed and made into a museum.

We watched a movie of the history of the farm. Our guide Shraga Hecht met an old lover here. He was quite disconcerted about it.We couldn’t get any sense out of him for a whilel

Wed 17/2/93- The old blacksmith shop on Dunrovin farm. Life was very hard here.

Jeff Berry videoing the old farm equipment at Dunrovin farm,

The Horse is real and not a stuffed exhibit.

Wednesday 17/2/93 Schraga telling Jim and Colleen His philosophical view of the history of Dunrovin Farm;

Shraga is a top-grade guide and we were lucky to have him. If we had had to pay for his services it would have cost us $165 a day plus food and accommodation. Pottery and craft produced on Dunrovin Farm

Beautiful, beautiful Mt Hermon – coming close to the “good fence” between Lebanon and Israel.

Snow capped Mt Hermon

“The Good Fence” the border post between Lebanon and Israel. Flag of Lebanon and flag of Israel. Jim and Colleen and Jeff Berry.

Here Lebanese workers are given visas to come over and work in Israel.

I wrote postcards and sent them from here because Shraga told me they would be stamped as being sent from Lebanon.

17/2/93 – Border between Lebanon and Israel – workers cross over from Lebanon to Israel.

What a sinister looking place. A border guard watches as I take photos. 200 yards from here there is a war going on and the United Nations spend most of their time on operation “ground Hog.” Bombed out Buildings over the border in Lebanon

The familiar Jewish watch tower broods over the scene.

The Jews are optimistic that Isaiah’s words may one day be fulfilled.

The cost of maintaining such an incredibly large army must be huge!

I am convinced that all Israeli’s are chain smokers, and if they are not they chew gum.They say it is the stress.

Isaiah’s prophecy will be fulfilled

Glorious Hermon with a Jewish village in the foreground

Hermon clothed in white.

We drove up into the hills on the Lebanon border. We could see Jewis settlement right up to the tree line. After that it was Lebanon. Beyond the border the land is all made up of little fields because the inheritances keep getting smaller and smaller.

Barbed wire fences separate Israel from Lebanon. We drove on past Arab villages on the hillside.

Climbing up the hillside along the Lebanese border.

Hills of Moab in the background.

Drove to the Hoffman Ethiopian Youth village where we were to stay overnight. We were met by the director who presented me with a cushion cover made for me by the children. Baruch Levi is the Director of the Youth Village.