Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Mandarin or clementine? Anemone or poppy?  Guinea pig or hamster? - These are all part of a new campaign at Beer Sheva...

. The Palm Sunday procession begins high on the Mount of Olives. The people walk down, cross the Kidron Valley, and enter the Old City of ...

. A donkey among the many red flowers on the Mount of Olives. Maybe he is resting up for the big entry into Jerusalem tomorrow, Palm Su...

. The winter/spring flowers are blooming everywhere, even among the cacti. Soon they will wilt. Tomorrow it will be 34 degrees C. May...

. While at Ben-Gurion University today I chanced to see two big IDF helicopters landing at Soroka hospital, which is right across the st...

. For ABC Wednesday , K is for a kosher kitchen. . Update:  Not mine, of course.  It is a hotel kitchen. .

. An Orthodox priest filling the oil lamps above the tomb at the Holy Sepulchre.  A brave Benedictine nun positioned a ladder on...

. Today I was down at the Midrasha and Kibbutz Sde Boker, where David Ben-Gurion lived. I'm glad I immigrated to Israel in time to ...

. Somebody had fun in the sky over Meitar's senior citizens' meeting house . . Linking to SkyWatch Friday . .

. Little flower of the desert, good luck to you.  .

. J oining millions of fellow Israelis I cast my ballot today in our national elections. Secretly each voter chooses one little sli...

. The view from my bus window as we left Jerusalem--highways above and highways below.   The cemetery for Jerusalemites covers the ...

. Orthodox Christians are today celebrating the fourth Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of the Cross, centered of course in Jerusalem, in the ...

. Walking back to town from a desert hike this afternoon I heard the faint tell-tale squawking high in the sky. Yes! a huge flock of mi...

. Not often that I find a picture for James' Weekend Reflections meme. And this is a transitory reflection, for as it gets warmer ...

. A week ago when we marched with Women Wage Peace to the Knesset under a rainy sky, the finish line for the Jerusalem Marathon was alr...

. A blaze of  blazes in the forest! The orange-blue-white  blazes mark the Israel National Trail . The blue and white is for a local tr...