Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Tomorrow is the 8th and final day of Chanuka. But yesterday we got one last Chanuka party in -- the nice one offered by Chabad. Gran...

. If you are driving down the highways of the Negev desert  you had better be looking out for camels. One of them might wander onto th...

. Looking out from the ancient Canaanite shaft tomb they had been excavating, workers come up for some fresh(er) air and a coffee break...

. It was the perfect sky today for SkyWatch Friday . Grandkids Dean, Eyal, and Libby and I climbed the "mountain" in the mid...

. This is as close as my family  got to turkey today here in Israel. The turkeys were alive and well in the Negev Zoo near Beer Sheva. ...

. Grandsons Dean and Eyal kindled the first candle of Chanuka tonight together with some of their cousins. Each used a chanukia [menora...

. I went back to my old stompin' grounds for the weekend. Ahh, the Jerusalem Hills, the hill country of Judea--so beautiful and gre...

. R is for round rubber gardens. Libby is three and a half and she has planted flowers in a repurposed tire. Each kid in her class ma...

. Green cheese?! It is labeled Gouda with pesto, 30% fat, 15.99 shekels per kilogram. We shopped at the big and beautiful  Eden Te...

. See these signs and symbols, as if on shards? They point the way to sanitized toilet facilities of the archaeology museum at the foo...

. Be'er Sheva, population 206,000, is often called The Capital of the Negev, since it is the largest city in the Negev desert of sou...

. Workers were putting up new posters this morning at the back side of the Be'er Sheva Theater. The front side had much bigger ...

. As you may know, my Aussie family is staying in Israel for seven months and they rent a house walking distance from me in Meitar. Friday...

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

. You know you are almost home when the Metropoline bus from Beer Sheva drives past the huge plowed field. In this photo you can just s...

. R is for resting place on a Beer Sheva sidewalk. Sit, relax a while, IF you can stand the hot sun,  if you don't mind those gra...

. A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR KNOWN TO GOD . The Beersheba War Cemetery contains 1,241 Commonwealth burials of the First World War...

. For several days I've been posting about my visit to Ben-Gurion College at Kibbutz Sde Boker. Here you can see the kibbutz perched a...

. I was delighted to see ibex wandering free  right next to the Midreshet Ben-Gurion building I showed you yesterday! Right behind...

. See the bust down on the ground floor of this unusual building? It is David Ben-Gurion ,  Israel's first prime minister. ...