Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Until reading this article by Rabbi Yirmiyahu Ullman, I never realized that our Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur holy days in the Hebrew ...

. From the window of Jerusalem-Beer Sheva bus,  Latrun Monastery , home to Trappist monks and a hermit. Under first clouds of autumn, a...

. The October 1 theme day for our City Daily Photo bloggers is about movement. I'll never forget my moving day, August 5, 2013, when...

. Our next station in our Jerusalem Houses From Within  guided tour of Shaare Zedek Medical Center was the heating/cooling  center whic...

. Even more essential to a Jewish hospital than lox and bagels are these tall tanks of LOX, liquid oxygen. UPDATE:   Forgot to tell yo...

. As explained in the previous post , Shaare Zedek medical center offered two well-guided tours of their engineering and logistics faciliti...

. The smokestack of Shaare Zedek hospital is cold and clean and useless. It once carried particles and smoke high up (and hopefully awa...

. Here's the bakery man slicing and packing three different kinds of honey cake. They will be gifts for the two different families ...

. Exiting the train station at Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, I was literally overwhelmed to find this new art work. Overwhelmed because thes...

. So my train pulled out of the sleepy Beer Sheva station and traveled northward through the flat, brown, dusty Negev. It stopped at Kir...

.   Last Tuesday morning  was my first time to take a train  from Beer Sheva. The city has two stations. This smaller, plainer one i...

. I have been away. Tuesday I rode the Beer Sheva-to-Tel Aviv train for the first time. Today,  Friday afternoon, I glimpsed the tr...

. Something new in the eucalyptus grove down in the wadi! Looks like the Meitar Scout troop has been up a tree, working on their l...

. Doesn't milk in a bag make you think of milk in an udder?  Israeli consumers are being milked as the price of milk keeps going u...

. Brand new postage stamps celebrating 50 years since Fiddler on the Roof opened onstage! How can it be half a century already? We liv...

. You may have to enlarge this to see it is a bird.  At the Artist's House of the Negev in the old part of Beer Sheva,  each o...

. Tonight's Harvest Moon Supermoon  lined up with the string of perimeter lights that encircle Meitar.  The outermost ring of house...

. Shalom, welcome to Meitar, my new hometown in the Northern Negev! I discovered this February 2014 photo on the wall of the Meitar Loc...

. In Beer Sheva,  where there is so much Brutalist architecture,  the summer temperatures are brutal. I can't remember one day tha...

. For ABC Wednesday ,  H is for head. This is the skull of a Nile crocodile, displayed at the Negev Zoo. You'll never guess what...