First day of the new year, a good time to take a few moments to review the year. It also marks 6 years that I have been guiding and blogging. This year I became authorized to guide tourists in areas of the Palestinian Authority, specifically Bethlehem and Jericho. I added 94 new blog posts (55 the previous year) for a total of 281, that’s a lot of information and photographs (over 1000 images).

There were 85,310 page views this year (77,379 page views last year), up 10.3%. There are currently 258 people who have subscribed to my blog (140 last year) and I use WordPress Publicize to automatically push every new post to 262 people on Facebook. I have a Facebook page, Israel Tours. I tweet when there’s something I want to share that doesn’t warrant a full post; the most recent tweets appear on the homepage.

I was quoted in the New York Times article about the Herod the Great exhibit. I was invited to write an article for a UK travel magazine as an Israel expert. I guided a team from the BBC who were doing a tour of the Holy Land in the footsteps of Edward Prince of Wales and his official photographer Francis Bedford.

Here are the links to this year’s posts in case you missed some:

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