Top Gear trio spotted filming special in Israel
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/spyphotos/" rel="tag">Spy Photos</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/#3486650"><img hspace="0" border="1" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/web630-tg-israel.jpg" alt="" /></a><strong><em><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><sma ll>Top Gear arrives in Israel - Click above for high-res image gallery</small></em></strong></div>
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The fellas over at <em>Top Gear</em> have been to just about every nook and cranny in Great Britain and criss-crossed continental Europe in all manner of train, plane and automobile. They've driven to the North Pole, scaled an active volcano, crossed the Sahara and traversed South America. They've driven through Vietnam, Dubai, Japan, the southern United States... nearly everywhere we can think of, really. Except Israel. But now they can cross the Holy Land off their collective bucket list as reports and photos come in from the tiny Eastern Mediterranean country showing Clarkson, Hammond and May taking in the desert sun.<br />
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Apparently filming a new episode in their epic series of cross-country adventures, the <em>Top Gear</em> crew was spotted crossing westward over the border between Jordan and Israel in a dingy trio of roadsters: Richard in a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/fiat">Fiat</a> Barchetta, James in a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/bmw">BMW</a> Z3 and Jeremy in a <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/mx-5">Mazda MX-5</a>, complete with retrofitted hookah. (Just for tobacco, of course.) The cars appear to be accompanied by a convoy of support vehicles for the production and camera crews, and undoubtedly had to jump through a lot of hoops to get there as the border is typically open only for foot traffic.<br />
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We'll be ordering up some fallafels and tuning in to <em>Arutz Shtayim</em> just as soon as we know when the episode will air to see how James, Richard and Yirmiyahu manage to get themselves out from in between the Dome of the Rock and a hard place. In the meantime, check out the spy shots (courtesy of forum member Dark-Shadow) in the gallery below and the (<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl =en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=iw&t l=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcars. walla.co.il%2F%3Fw%3D%2F4 705%2F1745642">translated </a>) <a href="http://cars.walla.co.il/?w=/4705/1745642">report</a> from our friends over at <em>Walla! Cars</em> for a closer look at how the blokes are single-handedly re-instituting the British Mandate. <em>Ashrecha for the tip, Nat!</em><br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel">Top Gear in Israel</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/img20101019130004_thumbna il.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/img20101019125939_thumbna il.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/img20101019130115_thumbna il.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/img20101019130120_thumbna il.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/top-gear-in-israel/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/img20101019124530_thumbna il.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
[Sources: <a href="http://cars.walla.co.il/?w=/4705/1745642">Walla! Cars</a>, <a href="http://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/34084.shtml">Rotter.net</a>]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/20/top-gear-trio-spotted-filming-special-in-israel/"><i>Top Gear</i> trio spotted filming special in Israel</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:58:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://cars.walla.co.il/?w=/4705/1745642>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/20/top-gear-trio-spotted-filming-special-in-israel/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19681892/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/10/20/top-gear-trio-spotted-filming-special-in-israel/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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