Hello, I am Jonathan and this is my blog ‘Brit in Jerusalem’.
I am an IT guy.
I’ve helped with a kids camp in Florida in 1998 (discovered I’m not cut out for youth work) sold books and set up some IT for Christian book retailer in 2000.
I’ve worked a lot with the Jewish community. In 2007 I worked as an IT contractor for the Southampton UK branch of Israel Hi Tech company NICE Systems. Between 2009 and 2013 I was a volunteer IT technician for Bridges for Peace in Jerusalem, Israel. 2017 to 2018 I was an IT technician for Immanuel College Orthodox Jewish school in Bushey near Watford, just outside of London.
I’m involved semi regularly in various different Christian events, I’ve been blessed to meet up with many people who I originally got to know online.
I also blog and photograph interesting discoveries and challenges in the Holy land. I have also got to visit various parts of Europe, Jordan, Turkey, Morocco and China.
During the big changes in the UK with Brexit, I set myself a challenge of visiting and comparing EU and non-EU parts of Europe and also visiting the obscure smaller parts of Europe such as Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco.
Brit In Jerusalem 
What a blog thanks for posting this
HI, thanks for your blog. It’s really cool. Please can you post some more?
Hi Johnathan,
I’m a fellow Christian and I admire the work you do.
During one of your trips you commented on a fruit company called Gog and Magog… I discovered your post while looking up the name of the company, as the tasty peaches I bought lately were labelled with the famous name… and I discovered that the company is actually British, not Italian as you wrote in your post.
It would be very interesting to find out why the company was given such name, but there’s no other info about this company on the UK.GOV pages, other than the official address of the business.
I hope you’re well and still enjoying your trips.
Take care
Hey Isabella, many thanks for the reply. Always interesting to know. I would of assume the company would be in the same nation that the fruit is grown in.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
free palestine from palestinians!
Dear Jonathan,
over the past few years, my online searches for a company called Steve’s Packs Jerusalem have frequently brought me back to your blog. Your posting of 29 March 2010 is the last trace I have of this great maker of bags and backpacks that seems to have completely disappeared from the scene. I bought a bag there in 1999 and have often wondered what happened to them or where their products can be obtained now. Every once in a while an item pops up in the vintage market, but that’s very rare these days. Do you have info as to what happened to them?
Cheers from Berlin, Germany,
Jan