While traveling to the Golan Heights, we stopped in the town of Safed.   It was the major Jewish settlement after WWI and today it is primarily an artist colony.    The town is built on the side of the mountain, so the sidewalks have lots of steps.

This is not the town for people with weak knees.   The sidewalks are narrow stone staircases.

Our tour guide, Dov, gave a brief history of the town and its’ many synagogues.  Notice that most of the homes in Israel have hot water tanks on their roof and they use solar panels to heat the water.

One of the synagogues that we visited, dated back to the 1600’s.   The synagogue and town was founded by a group of Jewish immigrants from Greece, who were known as Kabbalists.

There were many artist shops.   One shop specialized in candles.   Look at one of their detailed wax candle creations.

Below is the interior to one of the synagogues.   Notice the bullet hole.  During the war of independence in 1948 a stray bullet entered the synagogue.   Miraculously no one was injured because everyone was kneeling in worship at the time.

Heading back to the bus involved more of the continual stone staircases.