The document provides details about locations outside the walled city of Jerusalem, Israel from November 2008. It describes the City of David, the Montefiore Windmill built in the 1860s, and residential buildings. It also mentions the Israel Museum which houses a model of Jerusalem from 66 CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and artifacts from the Second Temple period.

1. OUTSIDE THE WALLED CITY
Jerusalem, Israel
November 2008

2. On the left is the city of David which is outside the Old City walls

3. The Montefiore Windmill was built by a British philanthropist in the 1860s
to provide cheap flour to poor Jews

4. Residential buildings

5. The “Stop” sign found on the Israeli
A wedding car
roads

6. A model of Jerusalem in the Late Second Temple Period (ca 66 CE) can
be found in the Israel Museum

7. Top left clockwise: the
Temple Mount, Herod’s
theatre, Herod’s palace
with the 3 towers (from
right to left: Phasael,
Hippicus, & Mariamne),
& the Adiabenian Royal
Palaces of Queen
Helena

8. The Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum houses the Dead Sea
Scrolls & rare ancient manuscripts; the white dome symbolizes the lids
of the jars in which the scrolls were found

9. Found in the grounds of the museum
(top right clockwise): a 3rd-century
sarcophagus, a 2nd-cnetury marble
pedestal, & segments of a water pipe
built by Roman military units that
carried water from Solomon’s Pools
to Jerusalem

10. A mosaic depicting Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period

11. This menorah was presented to
the Knesset as a gift from the
British Labour Party on 15th April
1956 in honour of the
celebrations of the 8th
Independence Day of the State
of Israel

12. Top: the original Knesset’s
entrance gates
Left: the Knesset

13. Walking to the Ben Yehuda Pedestrian Mall, we saw the “new” Jerusalem with her
modern malls, open-air cafes, & more

18. After days of looking at rocks & stones, this was quite a lively & colourful treat