Well of Abraham and Back to Tel Aviv

The Well of Abraham in Beersheva has been prettified over the years.



The first image (from the internet) was taken in the early 20th century.



The second one is found on the Well of Abraham Center website.

The story of this well is from the end of Chapter 21 of Genesis but the center has a quite a bit of other Abraham story  material. They tell the stories using a sound and light tunnel.  The procedure is that you take an elevator up two or so floors, then go down ramps hearing and seeing the stories, then down for a 3D 'binding of Isaac' movie, the down again to the well. The well is at street level.

The Visitor's Center scheduled an English version of this for the three of us and for 2 friends of Beth that we chanced to meet on the street near the Center.

 Characters dressed as Abraham and Sarah (an Abraham with a false beard and a young and very pretty Sarah by the way), greeted us at the well itself and gave us some well water (we used 21st century plastic glasses).


 
The third image is of the train approaching us (actually at the Tel Aviv station). There are 6 different tracks at this point as some trains go along the coast, one line goes to and from Jerusalem and one line goes inland to and from Beersheva.


 
The fourth image, taken by Beth using her phone, is Ann and me in the train on the way to Beersheva. We sat on the ground deck but there is actually an upper deck also and rest rooms on both levels. 

  
 
The fifth image shows the Tel Aviv station we used when we returned from Beersheva (there are actually 4 different Tel Aviv stations on this rail line and we used the one that is nearest Ramat Gan. The view in the image is east toward the Ramat Gan commercial center.  

As noted earlier, this day was pretty hot (90F or so) in Beersheva but when we got to Tel Aviv, a westerly breeze had kicked in and it was cooling off.  A few days later it was in the 50sF in Tel Aviv and in the 40sF in Jerusalem with lots of rain.