...neither is it far from you

By a Lotto stand on a main street at the edge of town, in front of a cordoned-off building site, a young man is helped with the detail of putting on tefillin. Tefillin comprise two leather boxes, about an inch and half along each side, with black leather straps attached to them and which contain [...]

These cyclamen – about 4″ tall – are growing on a part-wooded slope laid out as a garden, overlooking a valley with the Monastery of the Cross in the valley bottom and the Knesset building at the top of the opposite slope. The ‘garden’ is principally a number of paths weaving across the slope, with [...]

The Jerusalem Theatre is host to plays, films, talks, art exhibitions, a restaurant and a bookshop. The film being advertised, is ‘The Queen’ with Helen Mirren. Looking at the advertisement, it seems that the half-face at the top of the poster is intended to be Diana, who sits like a ghost at the party.

The Government announced a drought last week. Yesterday afternoon it started to rain and later into the evening it started in ernest and rained through the night and into this morning. The trees perked up and this shot shows how much they liked the rain. In part, the overcast conditions help the light bring out [...]