Hi,
We had a nice Saturday morning walk to Yitle view trail in Har Ha-Ruah (Wind mountain). The whole place was blooming with spring flowers, gives a great feeling to walk in those green fields spotted with yellow, blue, purple, white, pink and so.
The weather was clear and just after a night storm that clear the air.
Which gave us all a great lookout to the west over the coastal plain of Israel.
The goat farm, which have several times tried to get to, was evacuated. The reason was they were “damaging the forest”… Too bad that people demanding the evacuation of the farm does not understanding the goats eats the dry material, and reduce the hazard of the fire. Just like the fire that almost destroyed the near by settlement Nataf.
Take Care
Gad
Green carpets with pink, yellow, white….
The sign to the Yitle view trail, 1.5km long
Jannaeus and Xuxa on the roundabout trail
Looking south over Yitle stream
And to the West, where down below is the new Jerusalem railway bridge
First cistern over Yitle stream
Standing on a log left from the 2016 fire, near the first cistern
A sign to the panorama in the second cistern
The cistern and the view:
Nataf settlement to the West
Modi’in Illit to the North
Katana village and Nahal Kfira to the East
A memorial to IAF pilot who died in their airplane crash in this place
A memorial to the five Jewish workers who were murdered here on 9.11.1937 while working on the making the road. The settlement Ma’ale HaHamisha was named after them, where we sometimes visit.