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- Jerusalem
- Capital
- New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
- Currency
- 5,938,093
- Population
- IL
- Country Code
Jerusalem Slideshow
Jerusalem
Travel Blogs from Jerusalem, Israel
Yad Vashem and Shabbat
Went to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocast Museum. This a prety heavy duty. we have a great tour guide is able to bring a personal touch and ask us questions about how we might feel and act at the time. After lunch I trempt (hich hike) to the Old City. ...
Dear friends and family it has been a busy ...
... town on the side of a mountain just around the bend from the Kinneret, or sea of Galilee. It is one of Israel 4 holy cities (Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberias or the others). In the late middle ages, a group of Sephardic Jews moved there and began a ...
Radom Thoughts and Mojo
... / BlackBerry, which meant I was in touch. By-the-way much better signal, almost all bars all the time with T-mobile partners in Israel. This also meant that I was able to follow work and chime in with the occasional comment or two. Time to go off-grid for ...
Mugged in the Holy Land
... from an internet cafe in the market of the Old City in Jerusalem, and before I say anything else, I just have to mention that Jerusalem is everything I hoped it would be and more. This morning I awoke to the sound of the Muslim call to prayer, rolled ...
Jerusalem Journal
... pushed out of jerusalem. the orthodox presence doesn't make me uncomfortable, only its prevalence. what i love about jerusalem (besides its historical aspects) is its diversity. secular, religious, arab, jewish (especially that there are ...
Last day in Jerusalem
... wall and the Temple Mount. Apparently Jews are not to go to the Temple Mount because it is too holy, according to the Jerusalem rabbis. On the temple mount are two mosques, the Dome of The Rock where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac, and ...
Happy Lag B'Omer! Notes from Israel
... , so will have the strange experience of watching all of my friends leave, yet the pleasure of getting to further explore Israel without the hindrance of classes or homework. Meanwhile, yesterday witnessed the 5th terrorist attack in a span of 48 hours, ...
Mount of Olives, Garden of Gethsemane, Old City
... of us took a van to Ben Yahuda Street where we walked in and out of shops, listened to a guy playing a harp for money, and took in a bit of night life in this small, busy area of Jerusalem. ...
Dear everyone checking in from my room in ...
... through puberty or is already in menopause. Im not sure where that leaves me... Security-wise, its been a tense week here in Jerusalem. Due to several facts, we have all been on high alert. The reasons are: 1. With the Iraq story taking the lead ...
Shalom to the Holy Land
... Our last day in the holy land soon arrived and it was time to say shalom to the holy places of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and continue our learning curve about this interesting country. Heading to Bethlehem meant crossing into The West Bank (Palestine). For ...
E1-settler outpost
Aunt Jen said it was high time for my political education to begin. She and a journalist friend of hers took me to a place that has recently been the center of controversy called "E1". E1 is near the settlement of Maale Adumim and the settlers there are ...
2.3.07 - 2.7.07
... Perfect, God was definitely there. All the worship was in Hebrew so I was praying during it. I was praying for God to "save Israel". I don't speak or read Hebrew AT ALL but right after I prayed that I looked up at the screen, & the translation of what ...
Day 2 - Jerusalem by day
... picture of in the doorway of his dwelling 7 years ago. There are other relevant Christian structures in and around Jerusalem: The Church of the Redeemer (German Protestant "Erloeserkirche") is certainly one of them. Many go there just to ...
Sleeping in and Live jazz music
So...today, we slept in till 4pm or so...then when i woke up and woke up my dad, we got ready for shabbat and then after lighting the candles, saying the various blessings over wine and bread, had a lovely meal of salmon, potatoes, pita, chummas, nuts, ...
od yeru
... ll post the website). the tour was really excellent and very important to do, because it's essentially a seperate city from west jerusalem. if you get a map of 'jerusalem' it'll be mostly west jerusalem. i won't go over everything ...
back to the is
now i'm back in israel, and i have to move out of my place in jerusalem. the flight was uneventful. while waiting in the airport i walked in the wrong direction on a moving sidewalk and some airport people on the otherside of a glass wall ...
North to South
... sleep though. we caught a train (after a police man gave us a ride to the train station) to Tel Aviv and from there to Jerusalem. So tonight we are back in the Citadel Youth Hostel. Tommorrow we are hoping to get to Eilat via Massada (it may not be ...
Dayenu; It would have been enough!
Its Holy Week! The title is from my favorite Pesach(Passover) song, and it starts: If He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not carried out judgments against them Dayenu, it would have been enough! And goes on and on. Last night we had our family ...
Die Stadt schlechthin...
... an Amis, die in der Stadt herumwuseln. Stellen sie schon die am meisten praesente Nationalitaet was Touristen in Israel angeht, so sind sie in Jerusalem selber ganz klar in der Ueberzahl. An manchen Ecken hoert man sogar mehr Englisch als Hebraeisch! Und ...
NT, Schindler's Grave, and Vlachi
... ; I got a photo that shows Schindler's grave in the foreground, with, disappearing over a hill on the horizon, the dividing wall between Israel and the West Bank "this'll make it online eventually, one I can export it and stuff'. At risk of making a ...
Spend Christmas in Bethlehem
... He is the only member of the Nazi Party to be buried in the Christian cemetery at Mount Zion in Jerusalem and honored at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel as one of the "Righteous among the Nations". ...
2 hours spent locked in an Israeli Psych Hospital
... that long to complete the admission. That night I learned that there is actually a common mental disorder known as "Jerusalem Syndrome". In the heavily religious atmosphere of this Holy City, people who are already slightly unbalanced sometimes just ...
A bit more catch up and then off to Jerusalem :-)
... Jordan of soccer for Israel and that's him...I thought that was kinda cool to hang out with him and talk. f for the day to Jerusalem with Betty!!! We will blog again once we get home since we are all caught up now and tell you all about the Holy ...
Holy City Bound
... was one of the nicest. Actually looking forward to our flight out if you can believe that. We caught a shared taxi to Jerusalem, since it was before sundown on Saturday we had to take what we could get for transportation options. But once on board ...
Dear friends and family wow it had been a ...
... Elana, rather, meet Yael. I wont write that much about this other to say that Yael is a graphic design student here in Jerusalem, from a small village outside of Haifa, and due to my influence, an increasingly supportive fan of South Park. A completely ...
Shalom Haverim!!!!!!
... V Man did not eat enough during his Israel visit? Well morning next the V Man headed to Hanassi Forest, approximately 15km from Jerusalem, to celebrate Uri's B-day. When Oren, Ronit and the V man wheeled in the smell of BBQed burgers, franks and chicken ...
Dear family and friends i am sending out ...
... go. What follows was written in a segments over the past week. Shalom from the Village Green Restaurant in Downtown Jerusalem. I am doing my homework here and am fast discovering that this place attracts a highly religious crowd. The entire room ...
La carrera en Jerusalem
... guia explico que lo que mas exporta Israel es 1. high tech 2. diamantes 3. agricultura (tecnologia agricola) Tambien dijo que Jerusalem significa ciudad de la paz. La carretera es limpia, hay mucho verde alrededor. Habremos llegado en 40 minutos. Primero ...
1st days @ work still sucks in a foreign country.
Today, Sunday, November 12th was my first day of work in Israel. We showed up at the office in Ra'Anana, a city about 15 miles north of Tel Aviv, at 9:00AM IST. After clearing security we were introduced to a dozen new names and put faces to a dozen ...
Getting used to this place
Thursday, September 17, 2009, (really the 18th), 12:28 a.m. Good day overall. Fred started with a 3 hour run which helped us later figure our way around the city. The Zoo was one of the nicest we’ve seen, and the perfect size for our young ...