Hannukah - 2010 - Chag Samech

Jerusalem - The Hurva Synagogue, Reborn - 2010 - בית הכנסת רבי יהודה חסיד – החורבה

The view of the dome of the rebuilt Hurva Synagogue stands as further testimony to the return of the Jewish People to Jerusalem . 

The synagogue was reopened Erev Rosh Hodesh Nissan – March 15 this year. 

Initially the  Hurva was built by disciples of Rabbi Judah Hahasid in the early 18th century. Shortly after the initial construction of the Hurva, it was torn down by Muslims who demanded the returns of loans.  

Rebuilt in the mid 19^th Century it marked the primary place of worship in Israel. 

During the war of independence in 1948 the Jordanian legion blew the synagogue up.

Under Construction

Views from the Hurva

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Below the Hurva lies a Mikva (Ritual Bath) and above that a Byzantine road ..

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Link into more information on The Hurva: http://www.rova-yehudi.org.il/en/atar-hurva.asp

: http://www.rova-yehudi.org.il/atar-hurva.asp

President’s Forest - Tzora Forest - (Shephela - Judaen Lowlands) - Olive Trees

President's Forest - Judean Plain




http://www.kkl.org.il/eng/tourism-and-recreation/forests-and-parks/presidents-tzora-forest.aspx

Eilat 2010 - Dolphin Reef - “Bottlenose” Dolphins

Some of the Reef's family

“Bottlenose” Dolphins

Playing with dolphins

'Bottlenosed' Dolphin

White Speckeled Bulbul - Dolphin Reef - Eilat

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This is Joker who walks in from Eilat every day, to swim with his dolphins - read his story on.. http://www.dolphinreef.co.il/Default.aspx?tabid=60

Tel Aviv/ Jaffa and The Old Jaffa Railway Station - October 2010 - HaTachana -התחנה - תחנת הרכבת יפו

Neve Tzedek - Tel Aviv 

 
Tel Aviv

11 Barnet Zerach Street - Tel Aviv

Shenker Arie Street and Trade Tower - Hamered Street - Tel Aviv

 Porsche Cabriolet on Rothchild Avenue Tel Aviv

Shmerling Haim Street

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The Old Jaffa-Jerusalem Train Station At Al-Manshiyya

The first railway station in the Middle East - first opened in 1891 and closed in 1948

Now newly renovated/ restored  

Jerusalem - Views From Ramat Rachel - 2010

Ramat Rachel,  (Rachel's Heights in Hebrew) established in 1926,  is a kibbutz located within the Jerusalem municipal boundaries. 

View of Ramat Rachel from Armon Hanatziv

View from Ramat Rachel looking North at the (not so holy), HolyLand Buildings

Aolic Capitals - Second Temple Period

 View from Ramat Rachel looking north west

Ran Morin's tree sculpture

Ran Morin

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Jerusalem - Meah Shearim and Beit Yisrael - September 2010

Gates of Meah Shearim - first established in 1874

  Gateway to the shuk

8 Oneg Shabbat Street

Harav Zonnenfeld Street

Book G'mach (Jewish Free Loan Society), on Harav Zonnenfeld Street

Pashkevilim (broadsides)

The Scribe Shop - all you'd ever need for writing a sefer Torah - Meah Shearim

Meah Shearim was the first neighborhood of Jerusalem to have electric street lights

Beit Yisrael

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The Mirs Yeshiva - Beit Yisrael

Mir Yeshiva - Beit Yisrael

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