On the fourth day of our visit to the 'Holy Land' we drove for some time through the area around Rosh Haniqra. We started at a very important bridge near Kibbutz Gesher Haziw. The Israeli word for bridge is 'gesher'. Before Israel was declared in 1948 it was under British government. The Israeli resistance were trying to fight the British to find a place of their own. One day the resistance decided to cut off Israel from the outside world by blowing up over ten important bridges. This railroad bridge (with the track from Beirut all the way to Egypt)was one of them. Because the action was seen by alert guardsmen the resistance came under fire. The explosives they carried with them were hit and exploded, destroying the bridge. Fourteen people from the resistance were killed. They were all young men in the spirit of their youth. That's how the word 'ziw' is best translated.

After the bridge we stopped at some nice places on the hills of Rosh Haniqra and Hanita. In Hanita a watchtower was rebuilt which was used to start the creation of safe places to live in.