Milestones from Roman and Byzantine Periods (2nd-5th Cent AD), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Remains of the Road Built by British in Tel Aviv (1920s), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Reconstructed Flour Mill, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Glimpses from the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Collecting Vats of Winepress from 8th-7th Cent BC, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.

Reconstructed Olive Oil Extraction Plant, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. The installations inside are from traditional Arab oil press.

Olive Oil Extraction Plant, Eretz Israel Museum-Tel Aviv. See the stone mill for crushing olives & a wooden beam-&-screw press for squeezing the oil.

2P: The beam is one of the largest known in Israel.

Olive Extraction Plant (7th Cent BC), Eretz Israel Museum-Tel Aviv.

Drinking Fountain (13th-19th Cent BC), Eretz Israel Museum-Tel Aviv.

Planetarium, Eretz Israel Museum-Tel Aviv.

Sundial Square, Eretz Israel Museum-Tel Aviv. Replicas of Sundials discovered in Israel from Second Jerusalem Temple Periods (1st Cent AD).

Tel Aviv at Night

VISITING BEIT SHEARIM (23rd OCTOBER, 2009).

Brief Itinerary
05.30-Sede Boker-Metropolin 60
06.45-Beer Sheva-Metropolin 369
09.00-Tel Aviv CBS-Egged 826
10.30-Kiryat Tivon

10.30-Kiryat Tivon, Beit Shearim-13.20

13.20-Kiryat Tivon-Sherut 826
15.00-Tel Aviv CBS-Metropolin 370
16.30-Beer Sheva-Metropolin 6o
17.20-Sede Boker

YOKNEAM-On the Way to Beit Shearim.

Yokneam Illit is a modern town in Israel located at the base of Mount Carmel. The town was established in 1967 near ancient Tel Yokneam-biblical Jokneam. Crusaders called Yokneam as "Cain Mons", or "The Mountain of Cain", since according to a tradition, Cain, son of Adam was killed in this site (Genesis 4: 23-24). In Bible, Jokneam appears four times viz, Joshua 12:22; 19:11; 21:34 and I Kings 4:12. Yokneam was one of the 31 cities that assembled their forces to fight against Joshua and the Israelites but were defeated. The city appears in list of cities that were conquered in 1468 BC by Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III. Archaeologists have recovered findings dated 4500 BC from the site.

Yokneam Illit Central Bus Station. 1P-2P: See Tel Yokneam; the hill at background. 3P-4P: The hill at background is Biblical Mount Carmel.