Jerusalem's Beauty at Night Braving Arab Terror

Last Tuesday I braved the Arab terror and went to Jerusalem.  I walked from the String Bridge, and on it, all the way to Piccolino in Nachalat Shiva, in the center of town. I found a beautiful vibrant and patriotic city. I did not take all that many pictures, because I had to get to my destination by a certain time, and I felt safer moving, rather than standing still concentrating on the view.

Here are a selection of the photos:

cyclist on the string bridge

marching with Israeli flags down Jaffa Street in the center of town

more Israeli flags, this time at Zion Square

Singing Am Yisrael Chai, the People/Nation of Israel Lives on Zion Square

I had a lovely walk and felt so energized by Jerusalem, its beauty and people.

Waving Flags on The Roads

יזבור Yizkur REMEMBER
On the stage of the Yom Zikaron Memorial Ceremony in Shiloh

Today is Israel's Memorial Day for Soldiers and Victims of Arab Terror. I really like the fact that Memorial Day and Independence days are connected, one after the other. I think it's a lesson for us to remember.

Of course one can't have children only talking of the dead, those killed in the Holocaust, which was last week's memorial day, and then today and last night's programs about those killed by our enemies. So it has become a custom for some of the older school children in my area to stand on the road and wave Israeli flags.

I took these photos yesterday at Givat Assaf, the junction to Beit El.

Jerusalem Day Flags, Favorite Photos

Of all the gazillion photos I've ever taken some of my all-time favorites are photos of Israel flags. One of the photos was used by Sarah who used to have a blog and did my blog banners.

Here's the photo on its own. Of course it's untouched.

It was cropped for the banner and originally posted in Shiloh Musings in the article Now for the Third Time, which tells of the third annual march to Jerusalem in memory of Avihu Keinan of Shiloh who was killed by Arabs in a very poorly planned army operation.

I have another favorite flag photo from that march.

I really can't say that they are better than the photos from yesterday, Jerusalem Day, but for me the excitement of those marches can still be felt when I look at the pictures.

There's something very kinesthetic, alive you can see in flags as they wave, furl and unfurl uncontrollably in the breeze or from the movements of whomever is holding it. Here are a few photos I managed to shoot yesterday in Jerusalem on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem Day 5774.

Yes, Blue and White is All Over The Place

The flags were taken out of storage yesterday.

And it didn't take long for the maintenance staff to hang them all over Rami Levy and Yafiz at Sha'ar Binyamin. 

I must also hang flags at home.

My family never use to hang American flags when I was growing up. I don't know why. My parents also didn't publicize their politics. That type of discretion isn't characteristic of me. Everyone knows what I think and feel. I blog it daily.

Israeli Flags this 59th part 2

Here's Part 1
Most are my photos, except those I've labeled differently.


"Blue and White" in Israel is also the traditional "formal dress" on special occasions. Little children must have their "white shirts" to wear to ceremonies. Decades ago, when I was a young mother in Bayit V'Gan, Jerusalem, one of the grandmothers who took her grandchildren to the same park I frequented, told me how during the difficult days in the 1950's, soon after the State of Israel was established, when she had to get one of her children dressed for Independence Day, she couldn't buy a new clean white blouse. So she took a well-bleached white pillow case, cut a openings for the neck and arms, did a little sewing and some embroidering, resulting in--a perfectly pretty, new white blouse!




by Fred




Machon Shilo

Israeli Flags this 59th part 1

Part 2 here

I think it'll be best just to post a series of pictures of flags. The vast majority are my photographs. If a picture isn't mine, I'll label it with the source.

from Tzvi Fishman's blog.