Readers enjoy the winter in Israel

               

Our readers, Eli and Dalia Maor, sent photos from Israel where they are spending the winter.

    Shuk (open market) Ha’Carmel in Tel           Aviv is filled with freshest of fruits
    
Lion of Judea – basking in the                                 sun

 

Hanukah, commemorated the re-dedication of the Temple following the Maccabean victory over the Greeks in 167 BCE.  At the Western Wall, there was a ceremony lighting the huge Menorah (candelabra) on the 2nd day of the eight-day holiday.