Another visit to our favorite ice cream shop.
A visit to Sderot -- the day after 50 rockets fell in the area ...
to an elementary school... note Kipa Adamah, Little Red Riding Hood.
Jerusalem displays in the entrance...
chair-sculptures in the entrance too...
We were delivering letters of support from Akiva (and some English books Lia collected for her bat mitzvah)
The teacher (in green) tells me the Akiva students' Hebrew is excellent.
The classes are held in reinforced bomb shelters (for the record, no sirens went off during our visit).
Yoni at the huge army camp Tsrifin...
we were there to see Linda's cousin's daughter graduate, having completed a course...
She had learned how to be an army social worker...
They learned to march in line too.
They march in formation under a signing quoting David Ben Gurion...
He said our army is built on the quality and glory of its people.
After the formal marching, the soldiers celebrate like the 18-year-olds they are...
Yoni and Aviv stand guard...
Aviv tries to take aim...
More ancient weapons symbolize the start of ....
Lag Ba'omer. Aviv and friends carry wood to our medura-campfire spot..
Linda helps build the fire...
Linda makes pita...
At the end, the boys carry the supples back (about 4 blocks)
Aviv kept clean the whole time...
Yoni's class celebrates its shorashim - roots -- projects.
Every student presented a song from the family's tradition...
Yoni's was the Yiddish song rendered in Hebrew .. Tumbalalaika
The Hebrew version tells of a hungry "Chalutz" pioneer...
The backpack shows he's a chalutz...
Yoni presents...
Yoni shows he's hungry..
A different skit, from a friend with Middle Eastern roots.
They end by emphasizing their hopes for peace, shalom...
and marveling at all the different countries of origin..
Some of the artifacts from North Africa -- and the projects which the students prepared before the evening...
Visiting the Kotel with Uncle Tevi -- the two security guards are his...
Uncle Tevi works for the US government and he was never alone during his Israel trip (nor were we)...
Lia goes on Tiyul, on a hike...
she walked did not ride...
Views from the Golan Heights
of the North, the Galil.
Yoni and Aviv's school celebrates Shavuot
the dance is of bikurim, the first fruits...
Then the parents and students learned together in the classrooms.
Aviv shows the diorama they were working on of the 1948 war.
Yoni's class did the limud, learning, too...
Dina's violin concert, attended by Emily, her doll...
She did a solo and played with an ensemble.
The kids film a little internet commercial for Gil's new book... the book is on Amazon, the ad will soon be on You-Tube.
Lia introduces Presidents Reagan and Clinton.
Visiting the Montefiore Windmill in Jerusalem
Climbing on the Cubes on the outskirts of the old city..
This is Jerusalem not Paris, but across from the French Consulate.
A visit to the Kipah Man for a Manchester United Kipah
A visit to the Central Jerusalem Jail where the British locked up Jews fighting for Israel's independence in the 1940s.
We were allowed to walk around the prison yard an hour a day.
Dina and Aviv in solitary confinement.
Free at last... riding the Jerusalem lion...
