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Israel known as the Holy Land is home to many famous churches that are scattered around the country. Here are ten churches featured that are important Holy Land pilgrimage attractions, including the most important of them all, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre which is filled with visitors during peak holiday months in Easter and Christmas, however is worth the visit for it’s unique architectural beauty, amazing history, and significance place in the Christian world as the place of crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus.

Coming to talking about going to Israel for your next holiday, there can be nothing better than this especially when you have never had the taste of the Middle East. While it isn’t that big a place to explore but whatever it is, every corner of this place would mesmerize you.

When it comes to making Israel your next holiday destination, here is what you should keep in mind before you set out with your friends or family.

Mount of Olives
The Mount of Olives is a sacred place for Jews and Christians mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, first as King David’s escape route during the rebellion of his son Absalom (2 Sam 15:24-37), later in the prophets, however it is mentioned with great significance in the New Testament, where Jesus’ prayed and taught his Disciples, where Jesus wept over Jerusalem, where Jesus says "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." (Matthew 26:36-39), and where Jesus is taken up into Heaven (Acts 1).

Gethsemane is the name of the garden, as written in the New Testament, where Jesus prayed last before His arrest (Mark 14:32-42) From the Scriptures we read; Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will." Matthew 26:36-39.

Christmas in Israel is very different from the commercialized Western world. Christmas in the Holy Land is a spiritual experience for the many pilgrim Christians who travel over the holiday, after all the Holy Land is the birth place of Jesus.