OUTSIDE THE WALLED CITY

Jerusalem, IsraelNovember 2008

On the left is the city of David which is outside the Old City walls

The Montefiore Windmill was built by a British philanthropist in the 1860s to provide cheap flour to poor Jews

Residential buildings

A wedding car The “Stop” sign found on the Israeli roads

A model of Jerusalem in the Late Second Temple Period (ca 66 CE) can be found in the Israel Museum

Top left clockwise: the Temple Mount, Herod’s theatre, Herod’s palace with the 3 towers (from right to left: Phasael, Hippicus, & Mariamne), & the Adiabenian Royal Palaces of Queen Helena

The Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum houses the Dead Sea Scrolls & rare ancient manuscripts; the white dome symbolizes the lids of the jars in which the scrolls were found

Found in the grounds of the museum (top right clockwise): a 3rd-century sarcophagus, a 2nd-cnetury marble pedestal, & segments of a water pipe built by Roman military units that carried water from Solomon’s Pools to Jerusalem

A mosaic depicting Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period

This menorah was presented to the Knesset as a gift from the British Labour Party on 15th April 1956 in honour of the celebrations of the 8th Independence Day of the State of Israel

Top: the original Knesset’s entrance gatesLeft: the Knesset

Walking to the Ben Yehuda Pedestrian Mall, we saw the “new” Jerusalem with her modern malls, open-air cafes, & more

After days of looking at rocks & stones, this was quite a lively & colourful treat