Not far from Jericho, the River Jordan squiggles through the desert dividing the West Bank from Jordan.
Earlier on Wednesday, he visited Qasr el Yahud - the site on the West Bank of the River Jordan where Israel says Jesus was baptised.
Mr Bennett combines talk of Jewish spiritual renewal with an implacable hostility towards the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the River Jordan and in Gaza - the so-called two-state solution which has been the cornerstone of international diplomacy in this region for decades.
This homeland included all of the land west of the Jordan river and the land east of the Jordan river in what is today called Jordan.
Because he dreamt about a state on two sides of the (river) Jordan.
Ms. JENNIFER HUDSON (Singer): (Singing) Hold me like the river of Jordan and I will then say to thee, you are my friend.
In this day and age leading people to trust in an invisible hand is like leading a people to jump a river like Jordan.
And since the Mandate envisioned a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River, at a minimum the peace treaty sets a precedent for a future annexation of the west bank of the Jordan.
The fact is, a growing number of Palestinians live west of the Jordan River.
As Arab leaders praised the intifada, Palestinians continued it, violently, across the Jordan river.
There is no water, except the Jordan River is richer in history than water.
Water is inseparably bound up with the Arab-Israeli conflict, most obviously over who controls the Jordan river.
As Faitelson demonstrated, Jewish and Arab birthrates are already converging west of the Jordan River at around three children per woman.
By integrating the west and east banks of the Jordan River, the chance that Hamas would challenge the regime increases dramatically.
On Wednesday, Jordan sent a convoy of trucks across the Jordan River packed with relief aid for Palestinians under Israeli curfew in the West Bank.
In 1995, when she was a princess, Rania founded the Jordan River Foundation , which promotes economic opportunities for women through micro-finance and job training.
The policy goal of the consensus is to establish an independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan River that will live at peace with Israel.
The Americans, pushing hard for electoral change in Palestine, across the Jordan river, have been mute about the democratic freeze on the river's east bank.
The people who today call themselves Palestinians have no right whatsoever, legally, morally nor historically to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
First, the number of Palestinians living west of the Jordan River is growing rapidly and fundamentally reshaping the demographic realities of both Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
The main tensions were with Syria, which competed with Israel for the scarce waters of the Jordan river and supported raids on it by Palestinian guerrilla movements.
Hashemite rule was not the Palestinians' first choice, but refugees who crossed the Jordan river were automatically given Jordanian citizenship and the rights that go with it.
He was, rather, an ideologue, a disciple of Zeev Jabotinsky, the hardline Zionist who wanted to see a Jewish state along both banks of the Jordan river.
They seem not to have noticed that the Palestinian claim that by 2015 there will be an Arab majority west of the Jordan River is a complete fabrication.
South of the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River Valley has gorgeous views of the Galilee Mountains and is truly one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
If he is right, that could mean an Israeli strip of land, 20-30km in width, running west of the Jordan river, the Palestinians' main gateway to the Arab world.
In 1922 the League of Nations mandated Great Britain to facilitate the reconstitution of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land of Israel on both sides of the Jordan River.
The public was told that the Palestinian population in Jerusalem, Gaza, Judea and Samaria was rapidly expanding and that by 2015, Jews would lose our majority west of the Jordan River.
Faitelson based his multiyear projections on current population numbers in which Jews comprise 58.6 percent of the population west of the Jordan River and Muslims constitute 38.7% of the overall population.
After all, the Palestinian majority on the eastern side of the Jordan River can be expected to seek an end to the Hashemite dynasty and association with Palestinians on the western bank.
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