Monday, November 24, 2008
M and A in Israel Visiting BethNov 13-23, we were in Israel. The day we came we boarded a sharoot outside the Ben Gurion Terminal building and headed toward Jerusalem.
It only took about 1.5 hours from the time we landed until we had passed customs and passport inspection, got our luggage, boarded the sharoot and got to the apartment we were renting in the German Quarter. Beth lives about a 20 minute walk south of that apartment.
Just as we got to the municipal limits of Jerusalem we saw a rainbow (a storm was ending). The image was taken by someone named Jim Zukerman in 2001).
We ended our vacation at the Havat Habaron hotel. The first image - which was taken by an anonymous person shows the way the hotel is built into a ridge. The ridge is at the east edge of the coastal plain about seven miles or so south of Haifa.
We also saw a rainbow the day before we left at the end of a storm which left a lot of rain on Sabbath the 22nd (at least a lot of rain at the hotel).
I have six separate multi-image posts in the Weissfamily blog.
One is all about Zichron Yaacov.
One contains some odds and ends of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
One contains images taken of a large model of Jerusalem in the time of the second temple.
One contains images taken at the dead sea (both taken by Beth)
One contains images taken in the Old City.
Two contain images taken at Neot Kedumim (and one other image from there taken by Beth, others by M)
