Marko starts his trip when he lands in the Jerusalem airport, he plans to take the Jerusalem light rail to get to the Old City. 

Marko notices how new and clean the Light Rail and sees the many green spaces and parks that Jerusalem offers.

The construction of the red line of Jerusalem's light rail began in 2002 and ended in 2010. The red line connects Old Jerusalem to the new parts of the city and features 23 stations and costs around one billion US dollars. One of Israel's largest public works projects that are being underway is the construction of the green line which was approved in 2019 and will feature 36 stations and will hold 200,000 passengers a day. The cost of the green line is unknown. A new blue line has also been recently approved.

Marko arrived at the Dung Gate for the Jewish Quarter of the Old City and was excited to see some famous landmarks

Marko first visits the most famous Jewish Landmark, the Western Wall which is the only remaining support wall of the first and second temples of Judaism and is an important prayer place for Judaism. Marko attended a prayer ceremony at the Western Wall because Judaism is one of the biggest religions in Israel today.

The Western Wall is one of the most sacred for the Jewish people. Judaism is one of the largest religions of Israel and Israel was partly created for the Jewish people after World War II. Judaism is the world's oldest monotheistic religion, meaning they worship one God. Jewish people attend worship in a synagogue on the Sabbath and worship 613 commandments. In Judaism, they believe that God reveals himself in prophets such as Moses, Abraham, and Issac. 

Marko then takes a small walk to the Muslim Quarter and visits the Dome on The Rock which is one of the oldest Muslim monuments in the world and it's also a famous Muslim shrine. 

Marko's last stop in the Old City is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is presumably home to the tomb where Jesus was resurrected and is an important place of worship for Catholics. 

Marko leaves the Old City gates and wants to check out the Knesset. The Knesset is where Israel's parliament is located and he wants to learn about Israel's government structure and where they work. 

Marko gets to see the parliament room. Israel's government is a parliamentary democracy meaning there is a prime minister who heads the executive branch with ministers, a legislative branch that contains the parliament, and a judicial branch. In the parliament or Knesset, a law is passed after three successful readings and the parliament passes laws before they are to be signed. The law then has to be signed by the President and Prime Minister, who is appointed by the Knesset to officially become law. 

Marko marvels about the outside of the Knesset, which is a more modern take on neo-classical architecture and wants to explore more of Israel's modern architecture.

Marko notices that the modern Jerusalem architecture is pretty plain, blocky, and made of clay. Modern Jerusalem buildings are influenced by many different styles. These styles in include brutalist, contemporary, and art-deco like the Mamilla Hotel (bottom left). But he also notices that a lot of buildings are surrounded by green space. 

Marko decides that he wants to go to Tel Aviv to see more architecture, but he wants to explore Jerusalems public parks first.

Marko learns that aside from parks the city of Jerusalem provides water, maintained roads, electricity, sewer systems, and public transport such as bus and rail lines.

Marko had seen everything he wanted to see in Jerusalem and it was time for him to head to Tel Aviv. There was a problem. Marko missed his flight so he had to take a helicopter. 

As Marko flew over Jerusalem he noticed how Jerusalem was organized into new and old parts. He could see the walled-off Old City that was divided into the Muslim, Armenian, Jewish, and Christian Quarters. He also saw how the new part was organized into many different neighborhood clusters that have been built according to the topography of Jerusalem. 

When Marko flies over Tel Aviv he notices that Tel Aviv is much more organized than Jerusalem with rectangular city blocks that are bordered with larger highway roads on two sides and smaller side streets on the other sides. Some of these organized neighborhoods include the City Center (bottom right), Florentine (bottom right), and North Jaffa (bottom left). Tel Aviv also has more high-rises and organized suburbs.  Tel Aviv is bordered by the Mediterranean and has many popular public parks and beach areas.  On the inland outskirts of town, there are man factories that produce technology and other goods. 

When Marko lands he wonders what all of the factories that he saw while he was in the helicopter were all about. 

Marko takes a cab to Yokneam Illit to see one world changing technology, Pill Cam.

Marko arrives at Given Imaging, Pill Cam's developer, and is excited to learn about the beneficial technology. Pill Cam is a swallowable camera that is used to record footage and data of the digestive system. This data and footage can be used to diagnose diseases of the digestive system. 

Marko decides to head back to Tel Aviv to another tech company Watergen. Watergen is a beneficial technology that extracts water from the humidity of the air into drinking water.

Marko arrives at the Watergen office and meets a computer scientist. Marko asks a few questions on why Water-Gen is so beneficial. The computer scientist is working at one of the thousands of startups that became successful. Israel is one of the startup capitals of the world and startups make Israel unique.

Watergen creates clean drinking water out of the humidity in the air and can seriously benefit people who don't have a clean access to water.

What makes Watergen so beneficial?

As Marko leaves the Watergen office he realizes how cool of a country that Israel is. He wonders how such a cool country was created so he decides to take the Tel Aviv Light Rail to Independence Hall to learn about Israel's Independence.