Snow on my city - Walla! Tourism

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The snow that fell on Jerusalem, led us to rummage through the photo archive of the JNF, which for the first time presents historical photos of snow in the capital. Some from the British Mandate period and others after the establishment of the state.

snow on my city

The snow that fell on Jerusalem, led us to search the photo archive of the JNF, which for the first time displays historical photos of snow in the capital.

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27/01/2022

Thursday, 27 January 2022, 18:36 Updated: 19:23

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Snow in Jerusalem is not such a rare sight, and it was also documented decades ago in black-and-white photographs.

In honor of the snow that fell on him this week in the capital, and on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund, we searched the JNF's photo archive and found historical photos of snow in the capital, which have not yet been revealed

. The snow in Jerusalem is a good opportunity to remember Jerusalem of yesteryear, "says Efrat Sinai, director of the JNF's photo archive.

"In these moving pictures from the thirties to sixties of the last century, you can see the familiar sites of the capital covered in white. You can feel from the pictures the great joy of the residents of the city about the event."

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Children in the Snow in Jerusalem in 1939 (Photo: Avraham Malavsky, JNF Photo Archive)

Magen David Adom ambulance in the snow in Jerusalem, at the foot of the Generali building in 1950 (Photo: Werner Brown, JNF Photo Archive)

Snow in downtown Jerusalem, near the Zion Cinema in 1950 (Photo: Werner Brown, JNF Photo Archive)

The steps leading down to the Western Wall in the snowy Jewish Quarter in 1942.

The stairs were built during the Mandate by the British, against the background of the events, to allow Jews safe access to the Western Wall.

The stairs were demolished by the Jordanians who paved a road leading to the Garbage Gate in their place - the same road that exists today (Photo: Avraham Malavsky, KKL-JNF Photo Archive)

Snow in the yard of the National Institutions building in Jerusalem in 1957 (Photo: Fritz Schlesinger, JNF Photo Archive)

IDF soldiers march in the snow in Jerusalem, at the foot of Mount Zion, on the Hebron Road, near the border that was then with Jordan in 1950 (Photo: Werner Brown, JNF Photo Archive)

Snow in the Knesset in 1968 (Photo: Sima Zelig, JNF Photo Archive)