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Jerusalem

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2019-09-13 Friday

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+Nancy and Jim travel to Tel Aviv. +

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Jim's plane in SanFrancisco.
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Turkish Airlines staff in San Francisco.
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+Assistance of United staff helped Nancy find how to get to Terminal 5 at O’Hare and reach the plane going to Istanbul. +On the plane, she had the assistance of a Bosnian couple in knowing how to work the various technology at her seat. +Had wanted to watch the movie “The Guernsey Literary…” and it was available for free on this flight. +

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2019-09-14 Saturday

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Terminal in Istanbul.
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+In the Istanbul airport, Nancy had the assistance of a couple from Pakistan living in Indiana in knowing how to read the departure board and establish phone and wifi connection in the airport so she could rendezvous with Jim. +

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The travelers take a selfie on the airplane from Istanbul to TelAviv.
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+As the travelers were entering Jerusalem, they were almost in an accident when the shuttle bus was squeezed between a bus and a bluff. +The shuttle bus dropped the travelers off in Jerusalem at midnight- Damascus gate- about 10 minutes away from the hotel. +The streets were dark and empty. +Use of global app and phone flashlight enabled them to walk to the hotel in the Old City in the dark with their luggage. +Nancy’s main suitcase was still to come. +

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2019-09-15 Sunday

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+Not having connected with the contact person, George Hintlian, the travelers explored the Old City on their own. +Many of the things they saw were seen again in more detail on Monday and Tuesday with George. +

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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+Church of the Holy Sepulchre - believed to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. +Currently occupied by several christian groups: Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic, and to a lesser degree the Coptic Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox. +

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Footprint. Chrysanthus of Bursa [Public domain]
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lunch

+ + +Nancy and Jim enjoyed lunch, but they realized that they were gouged badly when the bill came. +They learned to look at a menu with prices before ordering. +
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Wailing Wall

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Handwashing area for use before approaching the wall.
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+ + +Nancy delivered a prayer from Tamia and left it in the wailing wall. +
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+After viewing the Wailing Wall, the travelers walked back to the hotel to take a nap. +Needed to recover after long trip from USA to Israel. +

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Armenian Quarter & St. James' Cathedral

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Statuary in the courtyard of St. James' Cathedral.
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+ + +Monastery/seminary in the Armenian Quarter +
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+ + +Reminder of the genocide. +
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+ + Street sign indicates that the Patriarchate of the Armenian Orthodox Church resides in this Quarter. +
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dinner, end of day

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+The Travelers ate dinner at Bulghourji Restaurant which served Armenian food. +

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Night view from hotel rooftop.
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2019-09-16 Monday

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morning

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+Monday morning, with help of hotel staff, Nancy's luggage was found. +The day included times when the travelers were with George and times when they were on their own. +

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Dome of the Rock

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+The travelers visited the Dome of the Rock. +Nancy had previously visited in 1969 (50 years prior). +

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Santa Anna Church

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+Next to Bethesda ruins. +

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Bethesda pool

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wall's promenade

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+The travelers walked the rampart wall from Jaffa gate to Zion gate. +

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Armenian cemetery.
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David's Tower

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+The travelers visited this museum, which describes the 21 layers of history in Jerusalem. +

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21 layers of history at david's tower.
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meet with George at Christ's church café

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+The travelers met with George Hintlian. +Following are two audio recordings from that meeting. +

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+The travelers looked more carefully with George for information about Miriam Torosian (n.e.e. Jerahian). +They wanted to see if there are records that she was born or married in Jerusalem. +They found no records. +

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Torosian family photo. + Left to right, Miram, John, and John's wife Paroos (n.e.e. Takousian). + Picture was probably taken in 1912 when John and Paroos were married.
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time with George at St. James'

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+George showed them St. James' Cathedral. +Nancy shared the family's Armenian table grace with George, who was touched. +

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time with George at Gulbenkian Library

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+Besides exploring our data about Miriam Jerahian, George was also interested in their data about Grandpa’s property in Turkey. +He read the English and Turkish papers +

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time with George at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

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+The travelers returned to the CHS with George. +He included them in showing Canadian officials an area in the basement which had recently been studied by the National Geographic and was not open to the general public. +Recent research affirms that this was the place of Jesus’ tomb. +A YouTube video on this issue may be found here. +This counters research (Talpoit tomb) which concluded that Jesus’ body and family tomb had been found about three miles away from the CHS. +

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the gate to the basement of the CHS
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George explaining the recent research.
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Research data.
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Research data.
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George giving details about the dynamics of the various groups occupying the CHS .
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Note ladder.
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dinner with George

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2019-09-17 Tuesday

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+Nancy’s luggage was finally delivered to the hotel by staff who had to walk to another hotel outside the wall to get it. +

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wall's promenade

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+The travelers took a second walk on the wall. +This time they walked from the Jaffa gate to the Damascus gate. +

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View of Jerusalem from the wall. +
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Israeli Museum

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+The travelers viewed the dead sea scrolls at the Israeli Museum, which is outside the Old City. +

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time with George at the Armenian Apostolic Church Office

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George and Nancy look for information about Miriam Jerahian.
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time with George at the Gulbenkian Library

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Walking to the Gulbenkian library in the Armenian Quarter.
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time with George at Armenian Cemetery

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George,Nancy and Jim standing in the cemetery of the Armenian Quarter in front of a memorial to Armenian soldiers who fought post 1918.
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wrapping up with George

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+The afternoon before the travelers left Israel for Turkey, George shared that they should not take the original paperwork (English and Turkish) about Yesia’s inherited property to Turkey. +He offered to keep it for them until he could get it to Jim via a trusted person. +The travelers followed George’s advice and were glad they did. +Because in Turkey they had three experiences which could have placed them in a position they did not intend to be in while there. +First, when they met with the Hrant Dink staff in Istanbul, they wanted to know if Yesia had been a Turkish citizen when he left Turkey in 1900 because they had a law suit against Turkey showing that such citizens may have been entitled to property. +Second, they had an unexpected interaction with a national Turkish politician in Erzindjan and a semi-expected interaction with a local Turkish official in Develi. +Both wanted to know about possible property implications of their visit. +For all three instances they were grateful that they did not have these papers with them. +

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+They had a second dinner with George during which they had candid discussion of politics in Armenia, Israel and Turkey. +

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2019-09-18 Wednesday

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depart

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+The travelers met a cab at the Jaffa gate with their luggage and drove to Tel Aviv. +They drove through sections which showed the barriers between Palestine and Israel with long lines of people waiting to go to work on buses. +

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