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Yardenit
Yardenit (Hebrew: ירדנית) is a baptism site located along the Jordan River in the Galilee region of northern Israel, which is frequented by Christian pilgrims. The site is located south of the river’s outlet from the Sea of Galilee, near Kibbutz Kvutzat Kinneret, which owns and manages the site. This unused card has no printing on the reverse, but clearly could be a postcard. Grade: 1
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Jerusalem – General View
There’s no attribution on the reverse of this unused postcard. Grade: 1
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Jerusalem – General View with wall
There’s no attribution on the reverse of this unused card. Grade: 1
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Jericho (Palestine) – Mount of Temptation
There’s no attribution on the reverse of this unused card, but it came along with others more distinctly ascribed to Israel. Grade: 1
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Map of Israel
Unused card with a bit of staining along the right reverse edge. For reasons we won’t go into here, we’re always curious about what map cards of this region actually show. Grade: 2
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Elath, General View
Elath was an ancient city mentioned in several places in the Hebrew Bible on the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. The name survived into the Roman period as Aela, adopted into Byzantine Greek as Aila and into Arabic as Aylah (the Arab settlement was built outside the ruins of the ancient city), later becoming Aqabat Aylah (“Aylah Ascent”), eventually shortened down to Aqaba. The modern Israeli town of Eilat, established in 1951, is named for the ancient city. We tell you this because the unused card (date unknown) calls itself Elath. Grade: 1
