I had to go to Jerusalem one more time

It is a long time have not had time or internet access to blog here and it seems hard to start again after such a long break.
Meanwhile i was in Eilat for 2 weeks, and : it was beautiful and energizing to spend such a long time in my tent on a quiet campsite in a more than enjoyable climate.
See my Flickr and Youtube channels for material...
Now i am back to Tel-Aviv for already 5 days and will fly back to Vienna in 3 days.
In this last phase i had planned to do all the shopping and Jewish/Israeli CDs are on the top of the list.
It happened that i had to go to Jerusalem to find what i wanted. I bought two CDs by Chilik Frank, who plays incredibly soulful Chassidic Klezmer Clarinet, that touches my Heart and feet on every track as well as an Album of Oy Division an excellent Yiddish group.
As if it was arranged by the heavens, i independently of each other met the two people i know best in Jerusalem and hopefully reestablished the contact between them: Brinda the beauty from Mauritius who used to work in the hebron Hostel, and her friend Rafael, the messianic Jew from India.

I also met a young Israeli soldier playing incredibly well on his antique Ud ...
The real show of course started when i stopped filming ...


At the same time on this anniversary of two such tragic events as the November Pogrom 70 Years ago and the murdering of Yitzhak Rabin, 13 years ago, there were some riots in the old city, this time among differing Christian sects ...
Needless to say that i also visited the Kotel and it was touching as ever.
As i just had entered the old city through the New Gate (Sha'ar Chadash) i met a Lady from UK, that asked me where the Dome of the Rock was- she got obviously lost, i said I go to the Western Wall, where also the ramp up the Temple Mount can be found, so we went there together, chatting about this and that ...