Ben Yehuda; Ramparts Walk Jaffa to Damascus; Lion's Gate; St. Anne's Church; Ecce Homo Arch; Old City Walking; Garden Tomb; Omar's

A wall where Bonkers bagels, my favorite bagel shop in Jerusalem, used to be. We thought the grafitti on the cut-outs was interesting.



Kipa collection in a shop on Ben Yehuda. See if you can find the following kipa's: Obama, Yankees; Manchester United, Michigan, Elmo.



Looking up David's Street from the top of Jaffa Gate.



Dad on the Ramparts Walk heading north towards Ben Yehuda.



The new electric rail system that they're installing in Jerusalem. It will be similar to Trax and was supposed to be done 2 years ago. From what we saw, it looks like it's another 2 years out.



Garbage in an alley on the Old City. Unfortunately, this is a common site. There is garbage everywhere. I commented to Dad that the students could try cleaning an area up for a service project. The problem is it would take forever for them to clean certain areas up and they'd probably just fill back up.



On the ramparts, looking east towards the center, down Suleman street. The green balls are lights that are strung along the ramparts for Jerusalem's light celebration.



An interesting wall extension. The holes looked like clay pots with the bottoms knocked out.



The minaret by the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the 7 Arches hotel and the Jewish cemetery as seen from the Ramparts.



Top of Damascus Gate, probably the most ornate portion of ramparts around the Old City.



A fun teeter-totter we saw while walking around the Ramparts. This was on the roof of one of the buildings.



Looking down on Damascus Gate, the northern entrance to the Old City.



Boys pushing carts just inside Damascus gate. The carts have small tires tied to them and they stand on them and slide down the roads and jump on the tire as a brake. They control them amazingly well, especially for how overloaded they are.



Looking down on the street just inside Damascus gate. You can see the traditional dress of the Muslim women.



Gordon's Golgotha from the Ramparts. You can see the bus garage that it is over and the cemetery on top.



Fun benches!



View of the Jerusalem Center from the Ramparts.



Absalom's Tomb



Gethsemane (small trees in the middle) next to the Church of All Nations. The muslim cemetary on the east side of the Old City is seen in the bottom left corner.



Our home for 2 1/2 weeks, BYU's Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies.



A close up of the lions on Lions/Stephens gate.



Stephen's/Lions gate



Dad sitting in St. Anne's church. He started to sing, in the volume a little louder than a whisper, and I thought it was a priest downstairs. The acoustics are incredible in this church.



The "Pools of Bethesda"



Cistern area in the "Pools of Bethesda" It is about 25 feet deep so it would hold quite a large amount of water.



Ecce Homo arch on the Via Dolorosa, one of the stations of the cross. It has been used in a few paintings of Christ.



A side street in the Old City. The ramps are used to push carts up the stairs in the city and they slide down them standing on the tires attached to them.



Typical shops in the Old City



A pyramid made out of spices in a shop in the Old City.



Candy bins in a candy store in the Old City. These are abundant in the Old City but I have never bought candy from them. There's something about them being open to everyone and everything that has prevented me.



Heading toward Damascus Gate.



Damascus Gate



Mosaic Lion up by City Hall



Mosaic light pole stand up by Ben Yehuda. I thought these were very nice and a fun way to decorate a light pole post.



Garden Tomb






Gordon's Golgotha. Remember that Golgotha means, "the place of the skull." It really does look like a skull.



Another view of a Palestinian open air shop. Fruit and vegetable like this are a common site.