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Door in Jerusalem

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I was taking a walk in Jerusalem, and to show that we are a real city and real people live here, I found this interesting door.  You can see the rust, the marks of the keys,  The mail that has not come today. You can tell a lot about a person by their door.  Yes?

Jerusalem on Fire! The day after Lag B'Omer

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Seriously folks, be careful with your combustables on a hot day like today.  Just came home and saw this out my window.  Called it in to 102 the Fire Department, they took a long time to answer the phone by the way, and they said that they already knew about it. This is what the fire looked like at 12;00pm.  Now it is 5:41pm and it is still out of control!  I heard planes and helicopters flying over trying to get a handle on it.  If they would sent only one plane when I had called it in there wouldn't be this problem   http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/212834#.V0cLTJF97IV One of the fires is being blamed on Lag B'Omer, maybe it is true, but there needs to be more fire education here in Israel. When I was a child in Los Angeles, we had to have fire drills a few times a year, and a Fire Marshal came to our classes and taught us what to do when there is a fire.  I was elected Fire Marshal of my 4th grade class and I was expert at...

Night life in Jerusalem

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Flowers in Jerusalem

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We are skipping winter, the flowers already blooming!

Happy 4th Day of Chanukah

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Jerusalem style!

The clouds above and the clouds below

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Jerusalem early in the morning reminds me of Bereshit,  Genesis The Creation of the world.

Jerusalem Clouds

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Just had to take this picture!