About Tova Saul, Tour Guide for Israel Unleashed
After growing up in Pittsburgh, PA, getting an MSW in Baltimore, and working with troubled adolescents in Maryland, I came to Jerusalem as the first stop on an open-ended world trip. I unexpectedly felt at home, learned a lot more about Judaism, decided to stay, and became a licensed Israel tour guide.
Therefore, I get to do one of my favorite things---- connecting people to Israel's inspiring, fun, and often life-changing experiences. In Israel there is a dizzying kaleidoscope of possible encounters----with magnificent wilderness reserves, boundless creativity in every subject and in every nook of the country, various spiritual experiences, and virtually each Israeli has at least one passionate opinion about everything. For example, in just 5 square desert miles are:
an excavation of a Herodian mountain fortress;
a young couple living in a large Mongolian tent that they built;
a many-chambered cave in a magnificent canyon;
an innovative school for kids who left home either because they are from a religious family and don't want to be religious, or from a non-religious family and they want to be religious;
the tiny factory of a man who has just invented how to compress the country's tons of olive press waste into environmentally-friendly "charcoal" for heating;
an audio-visual show on a kibbutz about how a few isolated defenders there faced the onslaught of the Jordanian Legion in 1948;
a family who dug under their house to make a small winery and found a vertical 2000 year old Roman pillar supporting the house.
Since Israel is much more than 5 square miles (about 9000 total), it is no exaggeration to say that it offers bundles of intense activities and experiences no matter where you go........and I get to introduce people to them.
How do animals fit into all this? My love for animals became apparent by age 2. I toddled out the door, was returned by passersby, and was asked by my mother where I was going. "Mike" I answered, who was the dog I had met the day before. It wasn't long before I kept discovering both the many wonders of the animal world and the waking nightmares humans inflict on them. This has morphed into my becoming a well-known animal-rescuer in Jerusalem.
Tova Saul
IsraelUnleashed@gmail.com
Telephone: 001 (972) 50
761 2109
