Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Queue is a queer word,  with too many letters. I prefer to just say line . But what to do, today is Q Day at ABC Wednesday .  Mos...

. Yesterday the nation remembered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 17th anniversary of his assassination. Youth movements organized the...

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

. These are pictures I took in Sydney, Australia,  in 2009. Written in the concrete wall is TO THE HORSES OF THE DESERT MOUNTED CORPS  ...

. Now that you are fortified with yesterday's post's pomegranate juice, let us get back to a weightier subject for today's Tapho...

. Holy work! Today for the first time I saw how they fill the oil lamps on the edicule, above the entrance to the tomb of Jesus. You see th...

. It was dark outside, nearing closing time; the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre was almost empty. Suddenly this boy took off his T-s...

. The 13th century BC anthropoid coffins again, this time close up! Last month I blogged about the ones standing in the Israel Museum in J...

. Here is a "cute" ossuary I saw at the Eretz Israel Museum near Tel Aviv. It was discovered in Peki'in , in northern Israel...

. An unusual grouping of tombstones from World War I. The reason for it: the three men died together when their vehicle was blown up. . Plea...

. This elegant carved and painted wood carriage was made in Szarvas, Hungary, in the 19th century. Would you believe?--it was used for funer...

. Welcome to the archaeology wing of the newly re-done Israel Museum. Behind the glass wall and reflected in the floor are six anthropoid c...

. Ascension Day was my first time to visit the Russian Monastery of the Ascension. (I showed you some of the graves there last Tuesday.) ...

. Welcome to the Russian Orthodox Convent on the Mount of Olives. Thursday, Ascension Day, was my first time to visit this welcoming plac...

. The beautiful Psalm 63 today, joining PsalmChallenge in Athens. 1. A psalm. Of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah . 2. God, Y...

. This old bone box at the Bible Lands Museum touched my heart. The deceased couple is depicted on the lid of the ossuary. The panels show w...

. This little group of huts and tents marks the tomb of Shimon HaTsadik in the Sheikh Jarah neighborhood in Jerusalem. Shimon (or Simeon ...

. With two clicks the images will enlarge and reveal the details. These birds stand guard over something very rare and special to many ...