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Sunset in the Jerusalem Hills

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Just had to take this photo of the sunset.  Boy, I miss sunsets, I live on the North East side of the building and I miss seeing the sunset every day.  My next apartment just has got to be to the West!  Or I will have to look at this post everyday!!!  You can too!! Rachael Don't forget to go to the ​ The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop   now on Amazon!

A view of the Western Hills of Jerusalem

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 Take a sneak peek a the Western Hills of Jerusalem, If you look carefully you can see the main highway work going on.  Beautiful spring day, the buds are just coming out on the trees.  Come to Jerusalem!

Jerusalem Sunset!

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Wonderful Sunset in Jerusalem!! 

Spring is Here and so are the Flowers!

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הקיץ הגיע וגם הפרחים בכל    מקום בירשלים 

Winter Sunny Day in Jerusalem

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Look at the contrast with the light and shadow! 

The Moon lights up the clouds!

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On the way through Jerusalem, I happened to look up and I just had to take this picture!   The Moon lights up the night, in consolation for making itself smaller, on the 4th day of Creation. Look up at the Moon once in a while so you don't miss the beauty of Nature! Rachael Alice 

A view of Herodian!

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If you look carefully at this picture, I have made it extra large,. . . you can see an interesting flat top mountain. This is the archaeological site of Herodian.  Now we know that it was the burial place of King Herod, and he built this mountain.  I was there a long time ago before they did the digging.  A had a friend who had a cousin who had the keys to the site and we went inside the tunnels underneath .  There we found some remains of the Bar Kochva revolt, no we didn't move anything, really.  And then we went up into the mountain, saw the wonderful rooms that Herod built. Two years ago, there was an exhibit at the Israel Museum showing everything that my friend and I saw 20 years ago! I said to my family, yup, this is what it looks like, when they showed the videos of the place before the digging began. So today, when I was dropping my son off at Yeshiva, I was driving along and this view popped up.  I dropped him off and then on the way back, ...