Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. Old apartment buildings like this in Beer Sheva are known as "batei rakevet," literally, "railway houses," becaus...

. Last week these prefabs were trucked into Meitar through streets that were blocked off to traffic. Slowly slowly a crane set them dow...

. Happy International Cat Day. This is a favorite memory of a cat drinking from a rock. It was a rainy day in March at the tomb of the...

. A farmers market, in Meitar! It has happened every Friday morning for the last three weeks, and each time it gets bigger and better. ...

. With sequins and threads, artist Ayelet Rosenberg has found a novel way to embellish old photos!  Her "Mybroidery" exhi...

. City Daily Photo bloggers are presenting "My city's skyline" for today's Theme Day. "City" is kind of a...

. At the end of yet another hot day in the mid-30s I went for an hour's walk in the desert right around sunset, when the breeze star...

Summer in the Negev desert is a long hot and dry season that tries one's soul. Will it ever end? About the only good, refreshing ...

. C is for constructed cats. As if Israeli cities don't have enough stray cats roaming the streets, some Tel Aviv neighborhoods...

. The entire campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is made up of Brutalist buildings. But just here, in Building 72 (in which th...

. On a tour of  Beer Sheva our guide took us to this abandoned movie theater. Old folks from the neighborhood walked by, listened, and ...

. Meitar now has a pacifier tree! Maybe there are more in town, but this is the first one I've discovered. Apparently the custom b...

. I snapped this picture from my bus window late Thursday as we passed Beer Sheva City Hall. The young people with the flags were start...

. Today, July 12, is Cow Appreciation Day. When I volunteered at the Franziskusgemeinschaft community in Austria last autumn, I ce...

. Today is World Chocolate Day! July 7, 2016 marks 466 years since chocolate was introduced to Europe. It arouses sweet memories of a ...

. A zany zebra, on wheels! At a fancy-shmancy toy shop in HaTachana, Tel Aviv's old (1892) train station now repurposed into a shop...

. Another "looking down" shot--the upscale Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem. .

. City Daily Photo bloggers are posting today on the theme "Look down." Here we are looking down on Omar ibn al-Khatab Squar...

. New plots are ready at my town's cemetery. Which brings to mind the old Yiddish proverb , As long as a man lives, the entire wo...

. If I had to operate any of this heavy machinery in the hot dusty desert, by the end of the day I'd feel as if I had been under th...