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Rick Steves' Europe
The Best of Israel
Season 8
Episode 805
We start in Jerusalem, alive with religious tradition and passion — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. We then visit cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, with its in-love-with-life beaches; ponder the fortress of Masada; and join pilgrims at biblical sights around the Sea of Galilee. We'll pay our respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, drop into an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, and savor the local cuisine.
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We visit teeming Cairo, straddling the Nile, exploring the back streets on a tuk-tuk.
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