The land mourns and wastes away,    Lebanon is ashamed and withers;  Sharon is like the Arabah,    and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves. Isaiah 33:9 We had reached the southern-most point of Israel at Eilat. There was nowhere to go but back north again. The trip north, however, would be via a different route along the eastern edge of the country to the Dead Sea. This route follows the rift valley. The Bible calls this region the Arabah. The rift valley is crack in the earth formed by the meeting of two tectonic plates that extends from Lebanon along the […]