I am not sure Ioustinos has email. Call and ask. Tel. 09/2313123, 0599/658385.

This is a beautiful church to visit. Church of St Photina. Well worth the trip. Jacobs Well is on the lower lever - down the steps. The monk who has been there for 40 yrs painted all the art in the room. Incredible. Safe travels.

We went on Pilgrimage with the Equestrian Order of The Holy Sepulchre from the UK. We felt completely safe at all times. The icons were painted by the elderly Monk who sits at The Well in the basement of the Church where he sells some of his smaller works. I bought a beautiful crucifix with some water from the well enclosed in he cross.

I went to Palestine with a tour group so I did not have issues with cars. I do recall that there are certain roads that Israeli licenses plates can drive on and certain roads that they cannot when entering into the West Bank. There are check points going into the West Bank where cars are kept from entering without proper plates. Leaving Palestine to travel to Tel Aviv airport, we were stopped and our passports were checked by the Israeli soldiers.

Father Justinus, the monk who is usually around the church, painted all the Icons as well as doing the mosaic of the Crucifixion.

It is very easy to get there. In the city center there is the central shared taxi building, from where you can take a shared taxi of 4 passengers. It goes to Balata camp, just tell the taxi driver that you want to go to Jacob well. You will pay 2.5 NIS only. In the street, you can ask anyone about the location of taxi going to Balata camp, they will tell you where to go. Yes it located in the Orthodox Church of St. Photina. Hope this will be a helpful answer.