Lights out! Earth Hour tonight in Israel

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Lights out!
Tonight Israel takes part in Earth Hour.
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And for the sky-watchers at SkyWatch Friday here is a full moon rising over Jerusalem (on the horizon) as seen through my neighbors' gate lamp globe.
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Israel is doing the lights out thing tonight instead of on Saturday night like the rest of the world's 6,000 participating places.
Flipping electric switches (which is considered work) would be complicated for Jews who strictly observe the Sabbath, which ends sometime Saturday night.
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Twenty cities will be powering down tonight in this order:
20:00 – Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Yerucham, Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut
20:10 – Jerusalem, Dimona
20:20 – Petach Tikva, Nes Tsiona, Ra’anana
20:30 – Netanya, Rehovot, Arad, Eilat, Yavne
20:40 – Ashdod, Givataim, Herzlia, Bat Yam
20:50 – Holon, Haifa, Yokneam
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Life and Environment, (Israel's umbrella organization for environmental NGOs), will announce its Green Globe awards today in recognition of outstanding contributions to the environment as well as its annual Black Globe for damage done by an individual or entity to the environment.
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I just hope we can see a lot more stars for even one hour without all the light pollution.
Good night!
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Sky love

Last Friday Jerusalem's sky still had some clouds.
Visiting daughter Naomi and I took the kids to the Israel Museum.
These "kids" stand on the roof and welcome young visitors to the Youth Wing.

Dean and Eyal loved playing in this part of the Sculpture Garden. And why not? The letters spell ahava, Hebrew for LOVE.

Robert Indiana designed "Ahava" especially for the Israel Museum. The artist avoided his usual bold colors here because the sculpture is positioned in a way that makes it possible to sky-watch through the letters.

It is said that this angle alludes to the marriage of heaven and earth, with love.

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OK, I have to turn off the lights now. Israel is finally observing Earth Hour in all our big cities, starting tonight at 8:00 in Tel Aviv, 8:10 in Jerusalem, etc.
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Another round of SkyWatch Friday is starting tonight. Take a look.

Earth Day

HAPPY EARTH DAY.
A bit behind the rest of the world, Israel's cities and hopefully citizens will finally observe Earth Hour and turn off the lights from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. tomorrow.
It's funny to see Israel at the top of our planet in this photo.
Now I can't stop singing the old song along with Al Jolson, "I'm sitting on top of the world,
just rolling along, just rolling along. I'm quitting the blues of the world, just singing a song, just singing a song. . . . "
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