Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. As our town's touring group was leaving the Jordan River baptism site, these two soldiers asked if they could ask our guide (on th...

. And now about the February 10 dedication of Mitzpe Noam that I started to tell you about in the previous post. Many, I think more...

. Thursday, when some soldiers, the lucky ones, get to go home for the weekend. Sunday morning comes quickly, and then back to base. ...

. Today's soldiers at the Western Wall. On this date, June 5, the Six Day War started, back in 1967. (I still lived in Chicago th...

. At 11:00 a.m. sharp the siren sounded and at Meitar's cemetery  all of us stood in a collective remembering of our defense forces ...

. Beer Sheva's Central Bus Station was packed with soldiers this morning! I felt like hugging each of them and saying a big thank-...

. Going through some 2008 photos I came across this one. Just an innocent Jerusalem street getting some innocent below-surface work, a...

. Today I let myself cry, for the first time this war. It was inevitable when the command car  drove by carrying a native son of Meitar...

. The military section of Meitar's small cemetery has "only" four graves. We are just a small community, begun in 1984, w...

. Yesterday I found my way through the streets of Beer Sheva  to the Park of the Australian Soldier. My first time to see the annual comme...

. 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 ...