Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. No, it's not a spaceship that landed in Beer Sheva. It's just part of SCE Sami Shamoon College. It is an engineering...

. Old apartment buildings like this in Beer Sheva are known as "batei rakevet," literally, "railway houses," becaus...

. I snapped this picture from my bus window late Thursday as we passed Beer Sheva City Hall. The young people with the flags were start...

. A nice, comfortably small group turned out for one of the Jane's Walks on Friday morning. Shir was our good guide, extolling th...

. Four tall buildings are going up on a small, formerly quiet residential street in Beer Sheva's Gimel Neighborhood. And the neighb...

. Beer Sheva's new Double Helix bridge is especially beautiful at night! Once you get yourself or your bicycle up the tall esca...

. The United Nations decided that January 27, the day on which Auschwitz was liberated, should be the International Day in memory of the...

. Beer Sheva's new Double Helix bridge was officially opened last week! Half a year ago train traffic was shut down for one weeken...

. Last June I showed you the new pedestrian bridge that had just been lifted and placed over the railroad tracks in Beer Sheva. This w...

. Here is another building with Swiss funding. The Keren Hayesod Switzerland Youth Center. This public building is in Beer Sheva'...

. A few pictures for SkyWatch Friday   from today's trip to Ramat Negev.  The clouds are rolling in and tomorrow should bring t...

.   Last Tuesday morning  was my first time to take a train  from Beer Sheva. The city has two stations. This smaller, plainer one i...

. So many learning opportunities now in Israel during the Annual Historic Site Preservation Week! You will be hearing in posts to come abo...

. Apparently a bustling street market springs up every Friday morning in Beer Sheva's Old City. I think it might also be on one...

. Beer Sheva's Old City is a strange mixture of crumbling "old" early 20th century Ottoman Turkish buildings, renovated ho...

. Here is Beit Yad Labanim, another of Beer Sheva's many examples of Brutalist architecture. (We saw in the post about BGU's libr...