Visions of Israel: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

Gefen Ami 2026

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Gefen Ami 260927

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Tree Trunks

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

TEMPLE MOUNT

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

206-4 Jacarandas Ramat Beit Shemesh May 2023

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Late spring and early summer see the Jacarandas at their blooming best in Ramat Beit Shemesh.
This selection shows the beauty of the light purple blossoms, which will later form a coloured carpet on the sidewalk.

Synagogue Sanctuary Dedication - Menorat Hamaor

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Sebastia-Shomron Antiquities

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Sebastia-Shomron Illegal Flags

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>The archeological area of Sebastia was designated as Area C under the Oslo 1993 Accords. Area C means under full Israeli control, both military and civilian. The Arabs have flaunted the Oslo agreement so blatantly and continuously that discussion in Israel focuses on whether Israel should reciprocate and declare the accords null and void as the Arabs have effectively done long ago with the brazen assistance of the UN.

Most of the photos show "Palestinian" flags on the row of freestanding columns on the archeological site.

The second to last photo shows historic columns on the site access roadside, indicating that the actual archeological site might be much larger than the observed site.

The last photo shows a huge "Palestinian" flag at the edge of the site, after it was raised by Israeli soldiers!

What is the Israel Ministry of Defense funding its COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) to do?
Where is a single Israeli flag? We are at the ancient capital of Israel!

Holding Light Exhibition - Chanukah Massacre at Bondi Beach

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Holding Light is a major exhibition at Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery, bringing together professional artists and community members in a creative response to the terror attack at Bondi Beach during a Chanukah celebration.

230726 Herodium 9th Av at Night

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Ezra Yachin 180927 Beit Hanina

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Moving North Beit Hanina to Karnei Shomron 2018

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Shdema Outpost

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Once almost off the map and forgotten as part of Israel, this tiny army outpost was discovered and saved for the Jewish people by Women in Green.
Four months into the wave of Palestinian terror started in late 2015, the Israel Defense Forces has changed its operational deployment in the West Bank and is returning to positions it had abandoned in previous years.
From the beginning of 2016, the Central Command and the IDF’s construction unit prepared various positions for the soldiers’ return.
A permanent garrison had already returned to the Shdema outpost, near the Palestinian town of Beit Sahur in the Bethlehem region. During the second intifada, Shdema served as a lookout post, but in 2006 the IDF decided it was no longer needed and abandoned it. At that point, a dispute erupted over what would become of the compound: Beit Sahur wanted to turn it into a hospital, while the Women in Green organization sought to turn it into a new Jewish settlement.
The argument became moot in 2010, when the IDF redeployed in Shdema.
The position was later abandoned a second time, and about the beginning of 2013, the IDF allowed settlers to renovate the abandoned base and hold events there.
Now, the IDF is moving back to Shdema. It has expanded the compound outpost and built a fence around it, and recently a company of reservists moved in — one of several companies called up at the beginning of January 2016 to bolster the army’s forces in the West Bank.
The IDF is also setting up several new pillbox positions in the West Bank. Israeli officials recently notified their counterparts in the Palestinian Authority that the army intended to set up additional guard posts in the northern West Bank, primarily in the Nablus region.
The IDF confirmed that it plans to build several new pillboxes, including one near the place where Eitam and Naama Henkin were murdered in October 2015, not far from the settlement of Itamar.
Meanwhile, the army is also continuing its policy, begun in November 2015, of putting military checkpoints at the entrances and exits of Palestinian towns from which large numbers of assailants have come.
Some of the access roads to Seir, for instance, were blocked, forcing traffic to go through the military checkpoint erected at one of the town’s entrances.
The IDF said it decided to expand and repopulate outposts that had previously been abandoned because it needs a place to put the extra manpower it is deploying to the West Bank. In response to the upsurge in terror, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot decided to put an extra four battalions on operational duty in the West Bank in 2016, including two battalions of reservists.

(Main source Gili Cohen 18/01/2016
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698027)

The Women in Green site is: http://www.womeningreen.org/
and a video about Shdema and related issues can be seen at: http://youtu.be/ufLvGhju84Y

Half the proceeds of photograph sales from the Shdema collection goes directly to Women in Green.

Jerusalem to Itamar

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>Heading north from Jerusalem we take the #60 highway and pass by Adam, Beit El.
There is much greenery on the hillsides and an openness of the area. Noticeable is the fact that the only only Jewish citizens we see on the street are soldiers.

250120 Sovereignty in Hevron

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Maarat Hamachpela - Cave of the Patriarchs

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Fruit

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Flowers

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Yafo

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Tel Aviv

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Snir - Golan

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Hula

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Negev

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Shomron

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Beit Shemesh

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Eilat

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Brides

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Portraits

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>

Wakf

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf (aka Wakf) is an Islamic religious trust (sometimes called an "Islamic Religious Endowments" organization) best known for controlling and managing the current Islamic edifices on and around the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Some form or another of the waqf has governed access to the Haram esh-Sharif since the Muslim reconquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187, with the latest version instituted by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
after its conquest of the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1948 war. Accordingly, the King of Jordan currently supplies all of the funding needed to operate the waqf, which is in effect the civil administration for the holy site.
(from Wiki)

Tourists

visionsofisraeloo@gmail.com (Visions of Israel) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

]]>