‘ -After live days of blitzing Israel from 6 afa
|g|p^ mi partying from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.
(the drinking age is 18), my bus — stocked
with 34 students from the University of Oregon
and University' of Washington — was getting
< People were getting sick* One kid had run
put of clothes and in desperation had washed
the contents of his small suitcase and strung
up his damp clothes from the overhead bins
§|rf th^coack People were generally getting on
, eaiffhl|fear^|h«rves. ‘ |
Everyone looked like hell but the prospect
having some Israeli soldiers and students
jottlltt fbr a few days on the bus and travel
. Photographs by Jason McLean
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Cover photo: The reporter visits the Dead Sea. At 1,320 feet
below sea level, it is the lowest place in the world. The
sea’s water is so salty and mineral-laden that swimmers
| float in the water, and its mud is used as
1 a cosmetic mask for its therapeutic qualities.
Small photos, top to bottom: Israel’s youngest and
most modern city, Tel Aviv, boasts a luxurious
beachfront location on the Mediterranean. The city
was founded more than 100 years ago on sand
, dunes outside the port city of Jaffa. • The stunning
| terraced gardens of the domed Ba'hai Temple in
I Haifa, seen here from the top of the hill, climb the
k steep hills of the industrial but beautiful port
SI city. • Tourists and residents walk through the
ll" Jewish quarter of the old Jerusalem (photo by
Steven Neuman).