• we leave Haifa through the suburbs to catch the "freeway" south
  • Haifa suburban shopping center
  • an unusual roadside "slum"
  • small hill top settlements, no mosque it must be Jewish
  • the country is badly in need of rain
  • right, this settlement is Arab
  • very similar to American truck stop
  • this is what the the Israeli's call a West Bank settlement
  • occasionally you see these hugh houses, I have no explanation
  • more Israeli construction
  • just like a roadside cut at Kerrville, Texas
  • the rains should have started in early November, however, at home in December we hear it is stil
  • Mark counts his chickens after a rest stop
  • we are now on Israel Highway 1, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem where much fighting occurred in 1948,
  • soldier crossing street in middle of nowhere
  • monument to truck supply convoys supplying Jerusalem
  • some of these rocky hilltops are the sites of ancient towns
  • the edge of Jerusalem comes abruptly
  • once in Jerusalem we can tell it is different even from the rest of Israel
  • packed busses and unidentified monuments
  • Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
  • Har Hazaitim Cemetery
  • the old city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the Dome of the Rock
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