1 in Faith: A Christian Bible Study - Letters from Jerusalem: Photos

	Street leading from the New Gate to the Knight's Palace of the Latin Patrarchate.
	View looking northwest from the steps leading down from a plaza in the Jewish quarter above the Western Wall. The building in the center is the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, above the Western Wall.
Painting in the Latin Patriarchate of a princess knighting a soldier.	Palestinian home on the street below the Old City that leads up the hill on the north side of the Mount of Olives. Hebrew University is in the background on Mt Scopus, just to the North of the Augusta Victoria hospital and guesthouse, where I am staying.
Hebrew University looking from the northwest corner of the Old City, before walking down into the valley. The road crossing the photo from left to right is the road that I walk up reach the top of Mt Scopus, where the August Victoria guesthouse is located about two blocks South of Hebrew University. Just below Hebrew University is the four-lane highway (on top of the retaining wall) that carries the traffic to the University.	A view of Palestinian housing and a hotel on the street leading up the hill to Augusta Victoria hospital and guesthouse.
Looking down the hill I've just walked up, at the north side of the greater city of Jerusalem. Notice the warning sign in three languages. Buses and vans travel this street constantly transporting people into and out of the city. From the top of this hill to the Damascus Gate just outside the north side of the Old City is about a fifteen minute walk. As I descend into the Kidron Valley at the bottom of this hill, I can see the Mount of Olives to the left. The road goes all the way into the Valley, and then rises sharply before coming to the northeast corner of the walls surrounding the Old City.
	Hebrew University as seen from the northwest side. I was stopped twice by security personnel as I walked around the University, because I was taking pictures. But I passed through security at one of the entrances and visited the humanities library, which had open stacks with many titles in English in literature. Palestinians live in the valleys below the University. Jewish Israelis call these "Palestinians" Arab Israelis, but many of these Arab Israelis have chosen to call themselves Palestinians. They have citizenship and elect a few members to the Knesset, but suffer from economic and legal discrimination.
Another view of the security barrier at Abu Dis. The gas station and convenience store was alongside the road that led from Jerusalem, which is to the right, into Abu Dis, which is just behind the wall, to the left. You can see the minaret of the city mosque in the middle of the picture. The dirt road built alongside the wall, on the Jerusalem side, leads to open land where a new settlement is being built. The view in this photo is looking south.
	This is a view at the top of the hill looking North. We walked up the winding road on the right of the wall, and now are going down against to the gas station and convenience store. From this perspective you can see some of the buildings of Abu Dis, which are behind the wall and very close to it. The two persons walking down the road are Ecumenical Accompaniers from the United Kingdom, who were showing me around on my first day of orientation to greater Jerusalem.
This is the view over the crest of the hill, looking southeast. The open land to the right where the trees are is in Jerusalem, and this is where the new settlement is to be constructed. You can see the road that heads away from the wall to the right, allowing access to the open land. Abu Dis is on the other side of the wall. This photo is taken from in front of a house, where we were spontaneously offered tea by three women and two young girls enjoying the sun on their veranda, which faces the wall and thus offers them the view seen in the photo to the right.
	This is one of the Palestinian women who offered us tea. She is sitting with the two young girls that the women were watching. These women and children are Palestinians in Jerusalem, who must go around the wall to get to the shops in Abu Dis. We walked north around the barrier, and it took almost half an hour to reach the other side of the wall about a block (directly through the wall) from where we were so kindly given tea by this lady and her friends. One of the women spoke a little English. She pointed to the wall, lifted her hands in despair, and said, "What can we do?"
A photo from south of Jerusalem. The young Dane facing off with a large billy goat (Gruff?) is a journalist student, who is volunteering with the Ecumenical Accompaniment program while he does a video project. We were walking to visit two other members of our program when we came upon this man herding a flock of goats. You can see from the length of the shadows that it is late in the afternoon. The goat herder was bringing his flock in from the fields, after grazing the all day.