The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem Photo: Gerald Schömbs on Unsplash

‘Would the magi be able to travel from afar this Epiphany?’

Occupational hazards: Michael Goodwin remembers Palestine

‘Would the magi be able to travel from afar this Epiphany?’

by Michael Goodwin 8th January 2021

My SatNav doesn’t give an option to estimate the time to travel by donkey. But by foot it would take thirty-three hours to walk from Nazareth in modern -day Israel to Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territories.