Professor Sharon

Today it snowed in Jerusalem!

Apparently it snows just about once every winter – but this was the second time this winter! We understand that many things were delayed because they have no snow removal equipment and such! On the way home from our day’s touring, we saw many families that our tour guide said were from Tel Aviv who had driven over to play in the snow!

We had a nice visit to the Hadassah Hospital to see the new emergency building and the Mother & Child building as well as the Chagall Windows in the Synagogue. Quite amazing windows of course. And, a fascinating look at the way Israel thinks in terms of emergencies: the lobbies are equipped to be immediately set up for extra beds and can hold up to 150 beds and have built in connections for equipment.

We then went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Needless to say, it was deeply moving. Rich came to see more about what might have come to pass in his family and his father’s travels. I could not finish the middle of the exhibit, as it was strong enough to make me feel ill. I was able to skip a room or two and continue at the end that covered the Israel country.

The end of our touring day took us to Beit GUrvin and we participated in an archeological dig. It was absolutely a blast! Rich and I dug up pieces of pottery; but helped clear up to a foot and a half or so of a ledge. The dig was an underground cave dwelling 2200 years old!