Not far from Jericho, the River Jordan squiggles through the desert dividing the West Bank from Jordan.
Obama leaves Tuesday evening for a trip to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.
While overseas, Obama will also visit the West Bank and Jordan, the White House said.
Obama has visited Israel, the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Jordan and several other Middle Eastern and European countries.
Mufti Ali Gomaa said he had entered Jerusalem from the West Bank via Jordan and not from the Israeli side.
As Faitelson demonstrated, Jewish and Arab birthrates are already converging west of the Jordan River at around three children per woman.
Most of the president's time during the next three days will be spent in Israel, but he also will visit the West Bank and Jordan.
Mitchell's stop in Israel is part of an eight-day tour, which includes visits to Egypt, the West Bank, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the State Department said.
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.
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.
The President will also travel to the West Bank and Jordan to continue his close work with Palestinian Authority officials and Jordanian officials on bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest.
Britain placed it under the administration of the Emir Abdullah, grandfather of the present King Hussein of Jordan, as part of a bargain in which Abdullah pledged to suppress anti-Zionist activity directed at the Jewish settlements in the rump of Palestine lying west of the Jordan.
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Obama's turn as tourist capped a four-day visit to the Middle East that included stops in Israel and the West Bank, as well 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.
He's simply saying that he's going to the region, going to Israel and Jordan and the West Bank, to have conversations with leaders that he's meeting with, and also with -- in Israel, to engage with young people in Israel about the future of the Israeli-U.S. relationship.
It also controls entry to the West Bank via the border with Jordan.
Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which provides schooling, medical services and food to 3.6 million registered Palestinians refugees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
Now Liali worries that if she leaves the West Bank to see her family in Jordan, she will not be allowed to return.
The delegations of Egypt and Jordan may include Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza or other Palestinians as mutually agreed.
Unlike the West Bank's western hills, the Jordan valley is sparsely populated.
He believes as he begins his second term and as there's a new government coming into place in Israel, he very much looks forward to the trip both to Israel and Jordan and to Ramallah, the West Bank.
Fact is, there is only one player from Connecticut on both rosters: Quinnipiac's Jordan Samuels-Thomas, a sophomore forward from West Hartford.
And then you have someone like Nabih Bulos who plays with Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra but originally comes from Amman in Jordan.
These negotiations will be conducted among Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the elected representatives of the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza.
Jordan and Egypt worry that, if the Gaza-West Bank split persists, Israel will eventually try to dump responsibility for the sundered halves of Palestine on them.
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.
The Jordan Valley - most of which lies within the eastern strip of the West Bank - is about 120km long (75 miles) and 15km wide.
On Thursday, Israel said it had detained a truck driver from the West Bank town of Nablus, whom it accused of smuggling dozens of weapons from Jordan to Israel under boxes of vegetables.
Egypt, Israel, and Jordan will agree on the modalities for establishing elected self-governing authority in the West Bank and Gaza.
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