In honor of the snow in Jerusalem and on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund, the JNF's photo archive today (Thursday) reveals for the first time historical photos of snow in the capital.
The photos show in part sights that are no longer from the British Mandate period and from the first decades after the establishment of the state in the city's familiar sites.
Efrat Sinai, director of the JNF's photo archive: "The expected snow in Jerusalem is a good opportunity to remember Jerusalem of yesteryear.
In these moving images that we first reveal from the 1930s to 1960s, one can see the familiar sites of the capital, covered in white.
From the walls of the Old City to the Knesset.
You can feel from the photos the great joy of the city's residents about the event. "
Children in the snow in Jerusalem in 1939, Photo: Avraham Malavsky, JNF Photo Archive
The Stairs to the Western Wall in the Snowy Jewish Quarter in 1942, Photo: Avraham Malavsky, JNF Photo Archive
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 destroyed by the Jordanians who paved in their place a road leading to the Garbage Gate - the same road that exists today.
Snow in Jerusalem in 1942, Photo: Avraham Malavsky, 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
Skating on the snow in Jerusalem, 1950, Photo: Werner Brown, 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 the yard of the National Institutions building in Jerusalem in 1957, Photo: Fritz Schlesinger, JNF Photo Archive
Snow in the Knesset in 1968, Photo: Sima Zelig, JNF Photo Archive
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