Putin in Israel

Vladimir Putin has won the 2012 Russian presidential election in Moscow yesterday. So, time to upload two of my photos to my blog, I took in 2008 and 2009 in Israel.

Putin pub is a popular place among Israeli Russians in Jerusalem downtown.

At the christian quarter of Old city of Jerusalem, there are several Israeli Arab stores selling T-shirts with picture of Jesus, Bush or Putin who wearing Arab headscarf "keffiyeh".

Jerusalem Bomb Explosion

A device went off at a bus stop near the central bus station and conference center in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The attack, which injured around 30 people and killed one, is believed to have been carried out by Palestinian militants. It was the first terrorist attack in four years that involved an explosion. Windows of a bus at the scene were shattered.

I took the first photo with the Israeli soldier girls in 2009 February at a very nearby location where the bomb was exploded on this Wednesday. The girl in the uniform was braiding her friend’s hair that holds her machine-gun nearby the bus stop.

The second photo I took inside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. On the photo an orthodox Jewish boy help to repair the Tzitzit for a passenger before read from the Torah.

I remember, the security check was very strict and took for awhile to get inside the station.