Jerusalem Hills daily photo

. City Daily Photo bloggers group is posting today on the theme ABANDONED. Today on Mount Herzl we buried Shimon Peres and I, and I d...

. More scenes from our Scouts' big "happening." Visitor kids got to mix a handful of flour with some water, and the S...

. Making jewelry with beads. Hmm, why are the letters in English, not Hebrew?  It was a popular activity at our recent Scouts Happ...

. Something I had never seen (not having been part of any of the youth movements when I grew up in the US). The Scouts lashed toget...

. For ABC Wednesday ,    K is for kosher cotton candy.  In Hebrew it is called "grandmother's hair." Our Meitar ...

. The moon gets so big so quickly, no? This picture of the crescent moon with some planet under it is from just two weeks ago, and toni...

. Just before school opened on Sept. 1, this man was putting up a new "window-dressing" on the glass front of a local shop. ...

. 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...