Virgin America over Las Vegas
MGM Grand
"Dale Chihuly's Fiori di Como, composed of over 2,000 hand-blown glass flowers, covers 2,000 sq ft (190 m2) of the [Bellagio's] lobby ceiling."
This is what you get when you order a double cappuccino in Vegas.
A training hall at Wingate
"A Sabbath elevator is an elevator which works in a special mode, stopping automatically on every floor, to allow for the Jewish law for abstaining from using electricity on Shabbat. An elevator may be marked with a sign noting that it is specially configured for Shabbat observance. In this mode, an elevator will stop automatically at every floor, allowing people to step in and out without having to press any buttons. Otherwise it is prohibited to use an elevator on Shabbat because pressing the button to operate the elevator closes a circuit, which violates the prohibition of activating electricity on Shabbat, and may also indirectly lead to "writing" of the new floor number in the display."
A wall of the Old City (Jersualem)
A stray cat in the Old City of Jerusalem
Looking up inside The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Roman ruins
"Yad Vashem is a 45-acre (180,000 m2) complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites, such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, The Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, archives, a research institute, library, publishing house and an educational center, The International School for Holocaust Studies."
A Bedouin camp in the West Bank
A view of the Dead Sea and Jordan
The Dead Sea
Oscar, Eyal, and Shimon, all close friends of Sde-Or (Lichtenfeld), the founder of Krav Maga. Oscar is an 80 year old Holocaust survivor, one of 285 people to survive a death march that started with ~4000 people. He was 15 or 16 and has been training in Krav Maga for basically as long as it has been around. Eyal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyal_Yanilov) is one of the two highest-ranked Krav Maga practitioners and was mentored by Imi since the age of 25 or so. Shimon has also been practicing Krav Maga for decades. He still lives on the same kibbutz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz) where he was born.
Outside the Baha'i Shrine and Gardens in Haifa
Pipes on the kibbutz Ein HaMifratz. Its major industries include a cardboard factory, a fish farm, and a strip shopping mall (which features a weekly Arab souk) on its property.
The dining hall at Ein HaMifratz.
Phillipe (Belgium) and Yogev (Israel) practicing knife defenses in a rental car.
The rental car company wondered why we rented cars for a day and only drove 17km.
Imi's grave.
Imi's wife died a few hours before I took this picture.
Banksy
