On November 3^rd, we arrived in Tel Aviv (the largest metropolitan area and the technology center), which is located by the Mediterranean Sea.

Behind Suzanna is the Dan Panorama Hotel, where we stayed in Tel Aviv.

From our hotel window we could look out on the Mediterranean Sea.

An Arab mosque was located close to our hotel.

The next morning we took a walk though Neve Zedek (suburb of Tel Aviv).    This was the original settlement from which Tel Aviv was founded.

This unassuming building in Neve Zedek is where Ben Gurion signed the declaration in 1948 that made Israel an independent country.

This monument in Joppa (Jaffa) commemorates the fact that the city is over 4000 years old.   It was from the seaport of Joppa where Jonah tried to run from God, and where Peter had the vision while staying at the house of Simon the Tanner.

In the center of Joppa is a clock tower, which was built by the Ottoman Turks nearly 800 years ago.

St Peters Cathedral in Joppa was the only Christian church that we saw while in Israel.   When we tried to find a church in Tel Aviv, the hotel concierge could only locate one Protestant church in the entire city of Tel Aviv.

After supper in Joppa, we looked at the lights of Tel Aviv across the Mediterranean Sea coast.