Modern Israel is celebrating's 70th anniversary is author, lecturer, traveler, tour guide, Doug

Hershey. Welcome to Prophecy Watchers. Thank you. Good to be here.

We're going to be talking about one of my favorite subjects today and I know it's one of

yours. The fact that Israel is back in the land and big things are happening there.

Tell us a little bit about your life in Israel as a tour guide and as a traveler?

Well, I've been going to Israel for about 20 years.

I've been connecting with the people there for about as long.

And through the time of just being in the land, connecting with friends, having dinner, you

know, exploring the land myself, putting the pieces together with the Bible, just seeing

a lot of the needs in the land.

And just really, you know, my heart just continue to be pulled into the land.

It's hard not to be when you're there for sure.

And Doug's put together a book and we're going to be talking about this book, using it rather

as a basis for a conversation about modern Israel.

It's called Israel Rising, and it's not like any book you have ever seen before.

There are what?

A hundred pictures in this book, but each picture has a duplicate. What a great idea. Tell people

what you did.

Yeah, I found old photos that were taken between the 1880s and the 1940s and went back with

Elise Terrio, pro photographer, to reshoot the exact same angles to show how much that

the land has responded under Israeli sovereignty.

And so there's over 100 photo comparisons from over 25 locations all over the land.

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