Israel Museum

After the profound experience of Bethlehem we headed back to Jerusalem and picked up our Israeli guide.  This bridge support was lighted up in different colors at night.  Hard to get a decent picture driving by on the bus.

We went to the Israel Museum.  But our time was limited, so we mostly just looked at this model of Jerusalem. Our guide told us that a restaurant owner had this model built of the old city in memory of his son who died.  It was at his restaurant for many years.

Toward the end of his life he donated the model to the museum.

Our guide used the model to show us proposed sites where Jesus was tried and crucified.

This in the center is the model of the temple.

Jesus would have been crucified outside the city walls.

Looking at the model from the other side.

She showed us where the pools to ritually wash the sheep and goats were.

This picture shows the raised walkway that enabled us to see the model better.

Looking at Herod's palace inside the city.

This city walls which have been in several different places over the years due to earthquakes, invasions, and time.

All the buildings were built of limestone, as they are today by law to keep the city looking the same.

Anyway, now that I have been in the walled city, I would have had better questions for the guide looking at this.  We went here first and it was hard to understand.

But, bricks and walls, some of which are indifferent locations today.

From there we went to the Holocaust Museum.  It was very moving.  I had already been to Dachau and to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.  I had also read quite a bit about the Holocaust, so the museum wasn't brand new to me.  We weren't supposed to take pictures inside and the memorials closed before we could see them.  They were getting ready for VP Pence who was visiting there the next day.

My room at the Olive Tree at the end of the day.  I am surprised that I am not the pile of coat and clothes on the bed.  I was exhausted every night.