If you’re based in Tel Aviv and want a one day tour of Christian sites along the Coastal Plain it’s best to start right in the oldest part of Tel Aviv, biblical Jaffa.
That’s because Jaffa was the historic entryway to the Holy Land and the holy city of Jerusalem, which was a two day journey inland, up into the hills of Judea. And it was from Jaffa that the prophet Jonah set sail to evade his God-given responsibility to warn the city of Ninveh to repent its evil ways. Here Saint Peter had his fateful vision described in Acts 10 which ends with Peter journeying, with God’s approval, to the Roman Centurion Cornelius, located in the Roman Capital of Judea, Caesarea.
Time permitting we can also head inland to the base of the Judean Hills to the church at Emmaus. It was on the road to Emmaus, and then later in the town itself where two of the disciples saw Jesus, after his resurrection and then made a hasty journey back to Jerusalem to report of their experience to the other disciples.