Yardenit to מצפור לוי אשכול
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Description: The Yardenit site was our last site at the Kinneret Lake, but not the last time we will be seeing it. From Yardenit, we will be going up at the road to Menahamiya Forest, where we will find the Levi Eshkol Lookout Point, a memorial to Levi Eshkol (1895-1969), Israel's third prime minister. I have no data about why the memorial was chosen to be at this remote point, but there was a legend that Eshkol was a fan of birdwatching, and this point is called in Hebrew Mitzpor Levi Eshkol. Being Mitzpor the word in Hebrew that mean birdwatching point, it makes sense. To arrive there, we will begin at Yardenit at a side road that goes in parallel with the Jordan river, and at a certain point near Menahamiya take a right. Then the road will become a terrain trail, but no worries, it is an easy trail that any rider can easily do. And a short one too. From there, the view of entire Jordan Valley (Emek HaYarden) extends below us, including the Kinneret Lake and Kibbutz Degania Bet, of which Eshkol was one of the founders.
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