Jerusalem Hills daily photo

Pictures of life in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Hills. And since August 2013 also a look at the northern Negev, my new home.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Sampling the beers

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. If you are in town tonight or tomorrow night and are of a certain age, get yourself over to Jerusalem's former train station, plunk d...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Girl soldiers on a safety island

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. Good girls, go in peace! (For G Day at ABC Wednesday .) Seen today clustered on a traffic island at the busy Jerusalem intersectio...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Crescents

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. For Monday Doorways , a natural doorway to one of the many caves in the Jerusalem Hills. Come on in, if you dare. It would take some b...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

How many unhappy birthdays more?

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. Gilad Schalit turned 25 today, somewhere in the Gaza Strip. It is his 6th birthday in captivity, since being kidnapped by Hamas terro...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Bees: life on the edge

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. It's hot and dry the whole summer long in Israel and even bees have to search for a drink. It might take some enlarging of the phot...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Israel's first tram in 3,000 years

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. With the ride still free of charge and with kids still not back to school and many families on summer vacation, riding the new tram toget...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Contemplating new ways

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. Here's the tram where it runs parallel to the Old City's northern wall (visible on the right). The new trams started taking p...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Glenn Beck's Restoring Courage rally

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. The two men had to try at least twice to swing the heavy battery of lights up and into position. I saw them setting up the stage and cha...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Fenced-in falling facade

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. This was the Russian hospital in its better days, in the 1920s. The historic photo is by the American Colony photographers, whose w...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

A nun at Terra Sancta's door

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. I've posted about Terra Sancta College before, but now I want to show its lovely front door for Monday Doorways (where meme host L...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

"How should we approach Jerusalem . . ."

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. Here is just the thing if you, like me, are in need of some uplifting of spirit right now. . Click here , click full screen, and treat ...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Peace and solitude in the valley

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. Is it a mourning dove? This sweet bird didn't fly away when she saw me on my evening walk in the valley. Maybe she knew we were bir...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

The little tram that could

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. See? Kids posing with Jerusalem's shiny new tram! Look! Passengers actually boarding ! Today was a truly historic and excitin...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Shalom Klaus

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. Oi, I can’t believe Klaus is gone from this world. Any blogger who has ever contributed to SkyWatch Friday or That's MyWorld kn...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Old style "Come to Palestine" poster

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. The owner of a little Arab restaurant in Jerusalem's Old City has this old poster on his wall, and while waiting for my shawarma to ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Exciting emergency excavation

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. Just in time for ABC Wednesday E -day, an emergency (i.e. salvage) excavation in Emek Yizrael (the Jezreel Valley) has unearthed an exci...
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