Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Olives weren't the only green things we found in the olive grove. Look at this big praying mantis! Give it a click or two and ...

. Now we reach the final stage in our series of posts about the olive press. See the stuff falling from the pipe into the big bale? I...

. Here is how Dani , who cares for the olive grove at Kibbutz Gezer, describes the process at the press: The mash is mixed for about h...

. Continuing our olive saga (see here and here ) which began last week in Kibbutz Gezer:  November and December are the time for maki...

. As you heard in Friday's post, we were off harvesting olives last week at Kibbutz Gezer. Here is me, Susan, Dani, Maybelline,  a...

. Theme Day at worldwide City Daily Photo bloggers group today is LANDMARK . My favorite landmark in new Jerusalem is The Monster!  ...

.  Shalom friends!  I'm back! For the past half week I've been helping harvest olives at Kibbutz Gezer in the Shefela, in centr...

. Here is the locomotive you've all been waiting for! It has finally come to rest beside the 1915 Ottoman Turkish Beer Sheva train ...

. Reflected in the century-old Turkish train station's window  are modern buildings of Beer Sheva.   And on the other side of t...

. From across this empty lot in Beer Sheva you can get an unobstructed photo of the new/old Train Yard and the 99-year-old train station...

. On St. John Paul II's first feast day (today, Oct. 22), we remember his visit to Israel in the year 2000. The historic message i...

. My date palm post yesterday reminded me of the AgriTech exhibition in Tel Aviv back in 2012.   These "clam shell" pla...

. It's that time of year again!  Here is a very interesting article about just how much work and love goes into raising date palm...