Lovely Nachla'ot

Recently I was overjoyed to discover that I have a friend who lives right near Kraft Stadium, so that after late IFL football games I don't have to rush to catch the late bus or tremp home. 

After cheering the victorious Big Blue Jerusalem Lions, I just walked across the street and met my friend who very generously gave me a bed in her "very Nachla'ot" apartment.  And I had a good night's sleep.  In the morning I walked to the CBS aka Central Bus Station and took the bus home.  It was certainly less stressful than arriving home after my usual bedtime.

And Nachla'ot/Nachlaot is one of the most photogenic Jerusalem neighborhoods, which is why Natalie Portman chose it as the location to film scenes in her movie, though not the streets I walked Friday morning. She actually chose to shoot on my sons' street though not next to their building.

Washington didn't sleep here!

One of the points I mentioned here, in my list of twelve things I love about Israel, is that there's history all over.

This old building in Nachla'ot has some history, too. Can you read the sign?

It tells the story of a "love affair." Rachel Kramer, a Lechi freedom-fighter yes there were women who fought, had lived in the building with her parents and was engaged to marry Meir Feinstein, an Etzel freedom-fighter. Meir was arrested, tried and the British were preparing to hang him and his partner, Barazani. Instead Feinstein and Barazani killed themselves.

Later on, Rachel, in that very building, married Efraim Rechman.

There's a multiple Shiloh connection with that building, too, but that's another story.

Pictures of Nachla'ot, Jerusalem

In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, 40 years after Jerusalem was reunited under Israeli sovereignty, here are some pictures of Nachla'ot, a lovely old Jerusalem neighborhood.