Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Before they added more buildings to the huge and ugly Holyland Towers in Jerusalem the Israel Antiquities Authority had to do the legall...

. If all these monotonous white shirts say "Sale"  then it must be the end of season sale at the Zara store in a Beer Sheva ma...

. Two days of ceasefire and so far so good. Now that kids can go outside to play again without fear,  Meitar brought in bouncy castles ...

. Finally , after 50 days of fighting, an open-ended ceasefire begins! I celebrated by walking to the center of town leisurely and calmly,...

. In just over one year Israel might have her first female "train driver." Way back when I was a kid in Chicago  we used to s...

. Lots of road construction going on between Meitar and Beer Sheva. But that doesn't keep the goat herds from coming quite...

. Big displays of schoolbags and pencil cases in the malls remind us that Israeli kids will soon be heading back to school. Not that th...

. Bedouin handicrafts on exhibit at a gallery in Beer Sheva. This embroidery is made by Desert Embroidery, the Association for the ...

. I have been following live broadcasts of  Pope Francis' August 13-18 pastoral journey to South Korea . At today's Mass he spo...

. A few days ago I wrote about the recent fire in part of our town's eucalyptus grove down in the wadi.  Well, it turns out that the ...

. With a sudden  high-pitched screech my faithful summer companion let me know it was time to pull the plug. I tried to bring her back ...

. Blackened earth and the acrid smell of ash! What happened to our eucalyptus grove down in the wadi?? Our beloved nature place where...

. Happy Tu B'Av! Today is the Jewish minor festival celebrated on the 15th of the month of Av (in Hebrew, Tu B'Av). I explained ...

. Another thing the setting sun did was to get reflected in the bus stop plastic. It felt so symbolic that the reflected sun was goin...

. The setting sun glowed tonight through an Israeli flag. The roundabout at the center of Meitar has been decked out with flags for th...

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

. Today marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I. Many do not realize that thousands, many thousands, of young Commonwealth sold...

. "And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares  and their ...

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

. Today's idea for City Daily Photo theme day is "Take away store." Every CDP blogger will have quite a different example t...