My Kiwi Torte for 8 NIS (about $2.25)

I'm limited to 5 pictures per post, so here's the close-up of the kiwi torte I bought at the bakery. It can also be seen in the glass case of the bakery with the other tortes on the previous post.

Our neighborhood in northeast Be'er Sheva, Dalet

I haven't written for a while, one, because I've been quite busy with a German-English translation of a dissertation summary, tutoring, and other projects, and two, because I thought that since we haven't been traveling outside Be'er Sheva recently, there wasn't much of interest to friends and family back home to write about. Turns out, I was wrong on that last count. With this post, I'll include some pictures of the immediate 2 block area around our apartment, directly east of the the BGU campus. There are at least three supermarkets, a great bakery for my friend Paul to visit should he come to Israel, a fruit and vegetable market, a florist, a post office, and a school supply store. I splurged on a Kiwi torte at the bakery after I had waited 20 minutes for hot out of the oven (and they were HOT!) pitas for our taco pita dinner the other night.

We have also found the only Christian church we know about in Be'er Sheva (or know where it is, anyway) and have been twice now. It is a Catholic church, and 98% of the service is in Hebrew (everything except for the Gospel reading), but they have Order of Mass books in English that help us follow along more or less. I do not have pictures to show, as I did not think it was appropriate to take pictures, but maybe if I arrive early one Sunday, I will. The congregation meets in a converted house, about 30-40 people, and it is completely full. As Sunday is a workday/weekday in Israel, church begins at 6:15 pm, which barely gives Dawn enough time to come there from the University. By bus and foot, it takes about 35-45 minutes to get there from our apartment, about 20 minutes from the University.

This week's pictures include the grocery store across the street from us, the produce market, and the bakery on the corner. My next post will detail next week's trip to the region around the Sea of Galilee, including Tiberias and Nazareth. I'm looking forward to having a rental car for a week and the freedom that will bring. Though it's a bit unnerving to know that more Israelis have died in traffic accidents than have died in fighting all of Israel's wars combined.