Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. From inside, looking out. From outside, looking in. Enough desert and Beer Sheva Brutalism; let's see some Italian Baroq...

. I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of Israel Museum visitors have viewed the Herod exhibition since it opened early this ...

. So far I have found no reflections in Meitar. So for today's Weekend Reflections let's go back to some images I secretly too...

. The cafe behind the sculpture could be a nice place to sip coffee and watch the reflected clouds drift by. The Israel Museum is very ...

. Today I bought myself a present:  my very own pliers. But I was surprised the hardware store only had ones with plastic coating on the h...

. A heel bone with a spike driven through it. Found inside a 1st century  ossuary in a burial cave in Jerusalem. Our only archaeologic...

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

For ABC Wednesday ,  K is for Kollek and Kapoor. (There is more about Kapoor's sculpture in two previous posts .) To quote the Isr...

. Care for a fig? A carbonized fig? They are strings of figs carbonized by fire in antiquity.  Ekron, 13th century BCE. At the I...

. The crow on a wall of  the Israel Museum Art Garden. I guess he couldn't read the sign "Please do not climb."  . ...

. While at the Israel Museum for yesterday's Purim celebrations , I took some time to get away from it all, walking down to the quie...

. (All photos can be much enlarged)  I first heard of Nimrod at the archaeology exhibition called "The Early Years, The 70th Anni...

. For fun, enlarge the photo and guess what the flotilla is fashioned from. (Yes, it's  ABC Wednesday F -Day.) I saw this at the...

. Two cupids fighting over a heart  ca. 1780 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle,  French 1714-1785 Marble Israel Museum . Oi, is that hea...

. D is for decorations below the dome of the divan.  Definitions:  a divan is a public audience room in Muslim cultures. These reconst...

. And what is next to "The Antiquarian Book Shop" we saw in yesterday's post, out in the Israel Museum's art garden? ...

. As you may guess from the title,  ABC Wednesday is starting another round through the ABCs today, for the 12th time! New York artis...

. St. Joseph warned by the angel by Dutch painter Govaert Flinck 1658.  Oil on canvas Israel Museum exhibit "Divine Messenge...

. For today's ABC Wednesday R is for Rodin . The Google doodle appeared yesterday honoring  the artist's 172nd birthday. ...

. Oi veh, now I've seen everything! Remember those large ancient coffins from Deir el-Balah in Museum Eretz Israel and also those ...