Upper Galilee to Jerusalem

The concise version:
- dinner last night at a fish restaurant on the Sea of Galilee with our guide and his daughter, her husband and their 12 year old daughter.  Lilach, our guide's daughter, lives in a moshav (village) in the Golan Heights, which she and her husband helped found more than 20 years ago.  Their children have spent all their lives in the Golan.  A fascinating evening for various reasons and particularly interesting to hear their sincere desire for a lasting peace and the high personal price they would be prepared to pay for it. 
- today visited Beit She'an, an archeological site in the galilee.  Hot.  Well-preserved Roman and Byzantine ruins.
-  also visited Beit Alpha, an extremely well-preserved mosaic floor of a synagogue from the first centuries AD.
- next a natural swimming hole mostly frequented by the Israeli Arab community.
- Drove for an hour or so through the West Bank towards Jerusalem.  The Palestinian villages in the West Bank look to have far lower living standards than Israeli towns (or for that matter, Israeli settlements in the West Bank). 
- I'm becoming fairly used to military checkpoints manned by teenagers with heavy weaponry.
- The Mount of Olives - an incredible view of Jerusalem's old city and of the principal burial site for Jews.  Slightly scary.
- Driving through East Jerusalem.  Interesting.  I felt fairly unwelcome.
- 2000 year old olive trees at Gethsamene.
- Driving through a Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jerusalem neighbourhood.  Fascinating but a little scary.
- A walk through Yemin Moshe, a beautiful neighbourhood made of Jerusalem stone.
- Dinner tonight in an Italian restaurant in the German Colony neighbourhood of Jerusalem.  I think they put dessicated coconut in my risotto.
- Walking back from dinner I saw my doppelganger working in a shop in the German Colony.  I've never seen anyone who looked like me before.  A weird feeling.