Well, still not much exciting to tell you about for today in Israel. We visited the Hadassah Medical Center this morning which is a truly amazing privately funded medical center (hospital, research center and medical school) created due to the volunteer efforts of the Women’s Zionist Organization in Israel which in turn is affiliated with the Hadassah in America. ( www.hadassah-israel.org.il/eng )
Then we went to Yad Sarah (www.yadsarah.org ) another volunteer organization that provides medical equipment to folks in need (from wheelchairs to cribs to oxygen etc) for free or for only a nominal fee. Again, really inspiring to see what people can do.
It looked like the weather was going to clear just in time for our tourist activities in the afternoon – but no luck. Everyone piled out of the bus to take pictures of the hills and the sun inconveniently disappeared. So this is what we got. And then it started to rain again.
Michael and I were not particularly moved by going to the place where they say King David’s Tomb is located and above that is the building where they built a room on the site that the Crusaders thought that the Last Supper most likely, maybe took place.
Then it was raining so hard and getting so dark and cold that we scrubbed the plan to walk the 1-1/2 miles to the Wailing Wall. Hopefully we’ll see that on Saturday when we are back in Jerusalem again.
Heading on to Haifa tomorrow. Hoping for better weather.
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