The pair of American diplomats who during the Trump administration secured the landmark peace agreements at the Abraham Accords have partnered up for a fascinating new venture — tour guides on a 146-mile highway packed with more history than any other in the world.
For a new documentary, “Route 60,” the two statesmen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, took cameras along as they traveled down the spine of the Jewish state. Though both Pompeo and Friedman are political figures, their film is primarily a religious history: tracing biblical events that took place over millennia and putting them on a literal map, all within walking distance from one road.
The religious diversity of the pair — Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, and Friedman, an Orthodox Jew — is necessary in matching the diversity of the road’s religious offerings. Of significance to Christians, the road cuts through Nazareth, where Jesus was conceived and lived his life; Bethlehem, where Jesus was born; and Jerusalem, where Jesus died and was laid to rest.
But its biblical history begins long before the story of Jesus. Jerusalem was, of course, made Israel’s capital city by King David roughly a…
