First months in Israel, 1997
My initial visit to Israel, meeting my father etc - September to December 1997
Jesus' body might have laid on this slab
In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Kotel sign
Directions to the Western Wall, with the Arabic graffitied out and Arab workers saying hi.
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Jerusalem panorama
Jerusalem at night - a composite of two photos
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Jerusalem walking tour
...provided by the NZ Christian who walks on the wild side by living in the Old City and proclaiming that the Muslim shrine on the Mount will be destroyed
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Remains of Jewish Gravestone, Mount of Olives
I presume this stone was in of one of the cemeteries smashed up when East Jerusalem was Jordanian, pre 1967
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Interfaith shoutfest
In the main shopping mall of Jerusalem: Christian preacher and Orthodox Jew shouting their holy words over one another
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Silwan and City of David
East Jerusalem's Silwan village, with the ancient city of David ruins in the forground. Just south of the Jerusalem Old City.
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
Mea Shearim
The Orthodox area of Jerusalem, 1997.
It's a scene from a movie; the old beards with black coats shuffling out their little houses, horses and carts delivering groceries, kids with dreidels playing on the cobblestones.
Today it's a movie set, dolled-up technicolour, a construction ready for a Spielberg plot. Empty no, not empty. People live here. But not those people, from whom Yiddish was extracted and pushed into this stony world.
Country: Israel
Place: Jerusalem
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