May 11; Go to Acco to see neat site of Crusader buildings & vaults, big halls, and emergence tunnel ( let's escape while we can, the Arabs are getting close!). Very crowded so park outside ancient walls, Built by Ahmed el Jazzar, whose moniker was 'The Butcher' which he earned. Didn't see all  as need to go to Haifa.

Visit with Nomi, relative from ex,s family that Roberta was always friendly with.  Got lost finding he condo despite my handwritten map from Google, which made it look so easy. After 30 min found someone who could help. Her son Oded we visited in 2009 in Arad where he conducts tours of the desert that we went on. He now makes jewelery and lives in Mizpa Jericho ( this is real desert living). Nomi is 85 and is a lovely lady and we went to her favorite restaurant in a Druze village Osafiya about 5 miles south of Haifa past the University of Haifa. The village was bustling with secular Jews from Haifa coming for a good meal on Shabbat. The portions were enormous. Roberta's veal actually lasted for 2 more meals for both of us. Mine just one meal. They  brought  salads for the 3 of us and despite my best efforts for them to bring for only one, they brought 10 plates of different salads  for 3. Each cost 29 shelkels or about $9. we also bought some sweets which were great.
We got lost getting out of Haifa but after leaving the mountain ,it was smooth riding back to Nes Ammim.

May 12; First stop is the Lochamei  Hageta'ot Kibbutz and their  Ghetto Fighters Museum. This kibbutz was founded in 1949 by Holocaust survivors many of whom had actually fought in the ghetto or forests. One of the key fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who escaped in the sewers and survived and helped start this kibbutz where people shared many of the same experience and could help one another. they started the first Holocaust Museum in the world with their own stuff initially. Now the Museum has grown to be very large. I thought we would spend one hour there but were there for 4.5 hours. It was very moving to read the short history of many of the survivors who lived in the kibbutz.

Next stop was Bet She'arim National Park southeast of Haifa where the famous Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi is buried in 220 CE. He headed the Jewish community and was head of the 70 member Sanhedrin Court that decided Jewish Law. He taught a whole generation of Rabbis and was famous all over, so much so that rabbis from all over wanted to be buried with him.  From Arabia, Turkey, etc rabbis are buried in large caves dug into the mountain. He had to leave bet She'arim and then went to Sepphoris , but wanted to be buried back here.  Some of the ancient town is uncovered too. The new town of Kiryat Tiv'on is beautiful with very nice homes overlooking a valley and in fact the view from the monument to Alexander Zeid of the entire Jezreal valley and Mt. Gilboa was fabulous. We bought some chocolate from Mishi a local chocolatier, very good.

What a great 3 day trip