Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. The Independence Day flyover! Today Israel Air Force plane flew for two hours, all across the country. I climbed the high hill in Meita...

. Our community of Meitar was treated to a flyover at noon today in celebration of Israel's Independence Day! Several formation...

. While walking from Beer Sheva's shuk (market) to the Central Bus Station earlier this week, I was surprised to see a long flatbed ...

. You can put our kids into army uniforms when they are 18, but you can never make them uniform. Even from the back you can tell th...

. S is for soldiers and sandwiches (or in Hebrew, sandvitchim ).  They were sitting just outside the Old City wall. I think they were ...

. The abrupt transition from the somber Day of Remembrance to the joyous Independence Day  will happen very soon, at sundown. The State...

. Today being Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, on which Jesus held what some say was a Passover seder, washed his disciples' feet,...

. Here is my third successive post about the baptism site at the Jordan. Please click once, then once again, to see any photo much enlarge...

. How strange. Last night I wrote this little post (below) and today we hear that a drone entered Israel airspace at 10 a.m. and was  s...

. For ABC Wednesday , P is for Palmach, Parabellum, and peace. . The Palmach Cave is a heritage site (and active tourist site) in Kibbutz ...

. Happy Earth Day! Here in Israel 22 municipalities are right now turning off the lights for an hour, from 20.00 to 21.00, as a way to promo...

. ABC Wednesday is in its fifth year, an amazing accomplishment for A -Day. Adding to the group effort, I hereby add ARMY MEN and their ARM...

. And while we are on the subject of soofganiot/jelly donuts, take a look at the (approximate) statistics on how many of them soldiers ate ...

. Good girls, go in peace! (For G Day at ABC Wednesday .) Seen today clustered on a traffic island at the busy Jerusalem intersectio...

. Right after posting about Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo yesterday I came across a heart-warming IDF post (see their video here ). I learned...