Inside the monastery

I went to visit a friend who was lodging there. A very quiet place, very big also and the part open to the visitors is really a small part of the whole complex.

Saint Clare Monastery's Entrance

Flags of the Vatican in Jerusalem

The Pope has arrived in Jerusalem. The flags of the Vatican are all around Jerusalem. But for us his visit is another traffic nightmare. The road where I live will be emptied of all vehicles tuesday night. No parking is allowed on my street on wednesday, and a whole neighborhood will be completely shut down on that date between 6-9 am and 4-8 pm.

Victory Day Parade in Downtown Jerusalem

We have a large population of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. And a percentage of them are veterans of World War II. On Victory Day, May 10th, they hold a parade in the streets of Jerusalem (and may be in other cities as well). May they live long.

Flowers

Jason's Tomb - Inside

Inside Jason's Tomb

The site is fenced and the photograph was taken through the bars.

Hasmonean Tomb

Dedicated to "Yasson" (Jason), the tomb was probably used till the time of Herod's rule. It is tucked away between the houses of the Rehavia neighborhood.

Entrance of school

Independence Day

Flags all over the building.

Remembrance Day for fallen Soldiers and Terrorism Victims

At the Bakaa Community Center

Fences

Preparing for Shabat - Flowers

Closed Gate

Taken from the inside.

Abandonned railway station - sad

Jerusalem Old Railway Station

Path to where?

House on Hebron Road

Old Railway Station

Near the Israel Museum

We had a little picnic and I photographed this flower. Blogger insists on importing it vertically; it should be otherwise, but... Happy end of Passover.

The archaeological garden near the Southern Wall

In the background, the slopes of the Mount of Olives cemetary.

To the Western Wall

People are arriving from the road on the right side. In the center of the picture, the bridge leading to the Mughrabi gate and to the mosques. Under the bridge, a sign indicates an archaeological dig. The Western wall is part of what remains of the surrounding walls of the Temple, destroyed in 69 by Titus. It goes on underground deep inside the moslem quarter.

Menora at the beginning of the Cardo

Entrance to the Cardo

The Cardo was the main street of the Roman Jerusalem.

Center of town -2

Center of town

Parking in the center of town

Convent of the Sisters of the Rosary - Agron Street

Ladders

New monastery on Hebron Road

The sisters of Saint Dorothea began this building more than a year ago. It now looks almost finished, but I don't know if it is inhabited yet.

Talitha Kumi

In 1868, a Christian girls' orphanage and school, Talitha Kumi, was built in what is now part of the center of town, by the renowned architect Conrad Schick. All that now remains of the original building is a three-part memorial outside Hamashbir on King George Avenue - the original facade including a clock and engraving, a chimney, and part of a window - erected by Jerusalem architect David Kroyanker after the building was destroyed in 1980 to make way for property development.

Theme Day - Yellow

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From King George Street to Hillel Street

On the other side

King George V Street (4)

King George V Street (3)

King George V Street (2)

On the right of the building uploaded on March 23rd.

Colourful

The King of falafel

Corner King George (V) and Agrippas.

King George V Street

And in front of the new building

What was left of the old building. I can't quite decide if it was a mark of respect for the ancient building, or a -bad- joke. On yesterday's picture, this entrance is shown at the upper-left corner of the photo exhibit on the wall.

Not so old, not so new

Jerusalem - downtown, more or less, near the open-air market Machane Yehuda, a parking lot. An old building and on the side, pictures of the professional school of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. In the background, the building which was contructed in place of the school.

Working on the tramway

The main street of Jerusalem is under construction from last august, and there are no signs the situation will improve in the near future. I really can't understand the purpose of the big, ugly wall being erected on the other side of the street in front of the existing buildings.