Tuesdays in Yeruham

Tuesday is market day in Yeruham. One can buy everything from fresh produce to shoes to tools at the weekly outdoor market. Here are some photos of the market that I shot today.

On Tuesday afternoons, we are in a family outing club that takes us to a different place each week. This week, the group went out into the desert a half hour from Yeruham, into the crater where I was last week with my friend David.

The group leader, Yael, told us to scratch the rocks with a nail, and we discovered that the rocks crumbled into fine sand.

She then gave us each a tool and told us to pick up rocks and carve them. Since the rocks were made of compressed sand, they were easy to sculpt.

We all sat around and made stone sculptures.

 Yael explained that this sand was used to make bottles in the bottle factory in Yeruham.

We saw trucks full of sand go by headed for the bottle factory in Yeruham.

We also saw camels go by.

And we saw a scorpion! (We kept our distance.)

We watched the sunset.

Yael cooked us soup on an open fire.

Everyone enjoyed the soup. (It was vegetable soup.)

Then we sat around the fire.

We can hardly wait for next Tuesday!