As we are sitting here writing this on the roof of Ramat Rachel Kibbutz a siren sounded at exactly 8 pm throughout all of Israel and everything stoped. The cars, the people, the noise. Everything stops to commemorate the memorial.
Today was our first day in Jerusalem, the place of the Temple Mount , the capital city of the nation, where kings of the Old Testament times conquered the land! The morning started in the ancient City of David. Ronen, our intelligent tour guide gave us a layout of the surrounding area.