In the summer of 1976, I rented a car for a drive through northern Israel. In late afternoon I reached Akko, then a dusty Arab city on the northern coast. Also known as Acre, it had been captured by the Crusaders. In the novel Exodus, Leon Uris pictured the fortress of Acre as a British prison for Zionist revolutionaries..


Bicentennial Israel
Jerusalem
Akko
Sinai