Daily pic #78: Basilica of the Annunciation
An entrance to the Basilica of the Annunciation (כנסיית הבשורה), Nazareth, Israel.
An entrance to the Basilica of the Annunciation (כנסיית הבשורה), Nazareth, Israel.
A view on Храм Христа Спасителя (Cathedral of Christ the Saviour) from Патриарший Мост (Patriarshiy Bridge).
Our Yorkie Lizzy has passed away.
Rabbi Aryeh Deri, head of SHAS, Minister of the Economy and Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galilee, at SHAS election rally in Mar 2015.
View of Jaffa from the Homat HaYam Promenade in Tel Aviv.
Walking through St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City is not as easy as it may sound. The pigeons, covering the square, are cunning self-aware birds, who see humans as a source of panem et circenses (bread and games).
Shavuot , celebrated tonight, is also known as the Day of the First Fruits (Hebrew יום הבכורים, Yom ha-Bikkurim). On that day in ancient Israel the Jewish farmers would bring the first ripe fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem. There were Seven Species for which the Land of Israel is praised: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.
The Western Wall (Ha-Kotel) is a small western segment of the walls surrounding the Temple Mount , erected by Herod around 19 BCE.
Serial photography is becoming a prevailing theme among the artsy photographers - at any contemporary photo exhibition at least half the pictures are grouped in series. If you can't take a great picture, take a hundred mediocre ones, but with the same kind of subject, and suddenly you are a deep and clever artist, telling a "story". It also helps that humans love to search for patterns, and most repetitive patterns have mesmerizing effect on us, which is cleverly exploited by wall paper manufacturers and popular music performers .
Conus Baileyi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae , commonly known as cone or conus snails.