Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. City Daily Photo's Theme Day is about people on the street. My people here are at one end of Jaffa Street at what we call th...

. Another reason to fly EL AL .  Our national airline's commercial jets will be the first to be equipped with the new Sky Shield sy...

. Sheep in an artist's garden. Geula Nachmias is the artist. Moshav Nevatim in the Negev is the place. . You can much enlar...

. Another Brutalistism building--the Beer Sheva City Hall, tower included. On one side its Brutalistic architecture is softened by...

. Here's one of the shelters in one of the schools in town (Meitar). It is adjoining the classrooms, as you can see. .  The E...

. Here is Beit Yad Labanim, another of Beer Sheva's many examples of Brutalist architecture. (We saw in the post about BGU's libr...

.  The little bit of rain that fell last Sunday was enough to let a jackal or maybe dog leave some footprints. But today the "wint...

. Click a few times on the photos, the better to see the cyclists. Several hours' walk from my place in Meitar, the road to the no...

. F is for firmly fenced in. Water valves in the open areas surrounding Meitar are kept under lock and key. . (For ABC Wednesday .) ...

. A late afternoon view from a playground of the southern neighborhood of my town, Meitar. Actually, Meitar is called a planned communi...

. Photo by Joan Fahs Last Saturday I posted a photo of a goat standing on a Jerusalem zoo bench.  That same day my friend Joan Fa...

. Libby's pre-kindergarten class chose February 14 to celebrate Family Day and to sing and dance and talk about love. No one actua...

. Who SAYS there are no flowers in our desert?! Libby found at least four different kinds. My hat was big on her but she manag...

. An Ethiopian clergyman at the entrance to the Ethiopian Orthodox church that is within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. . (For ABC ...

. Meitar Forest is just a short walk north of my home in  Meitar. See the parallel ridges in this late-afternoon photo? Keren Kayemet ...

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

. A goat showing off its goatee at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem. . (For Camera Critters Sunday .) .

.  A strange thing in Beer Sheva. I did a double take the first time I walked past it. In my imagination this is how Moloch looked. ...

. The houses up there are the western periphery of Meitar.  Last month was the driest January on record for most of Israel.  We finall...

. D is for Don Quixote. Zeevik Gottlieb made the unusual sculpture and it was part of the Humor and Satire exhibition along Jerusalem...