4 to the top

• When festivities are not blocking the street ( http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/course-check.html ), the 4 does continue along YeKhezkel. A pre-car alley caught my attention opposite Avinoam. Then a sign pointing left to the Bukharian Shouk. Its name marks its origins at the end of the nineteenth century.
• It is not until Eretz Khefetz that the bus turns left. It is soon among names related to battles since the founding of the State of Israel.
• The view opens up, and then we are in Ramat Eshkol (http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/ ). In the seventies, secular and "mdern orthodox" Jews bought apartments here. Now more and more residents ae kharedi, then men dressed in what Poles thought fashionable in the eighteenth (knee britches and stockings) or nineteenth (long black silk coats) centuries. Although many kharedi families are poor by choice and live on welfare, the economic range within these communities is broad. Several subgroups are very wealthy and have been buying real estate.
• The bus continues up the hill, giving you a beautiful view to the north. It passes under khaim Bar Lev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Bar-Lev ) to HaHagana (http://www.zionism-israel.com/Haganah.htm ). If you get off the bus at the Mr. Zol supermarket (the sign is in Hebrew but the large red framed white on black logo is distingtive) cross the street and walk across the plaza, you'll see one of the best outward views in the city.
• See also http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/bus-4-names.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/number-4-bus.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/pump.html then http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/4-to-terra-sancta.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/4-on-king-george.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/beautiful-clothes.html and http://jerusalmblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/street-of-prophets.html
• I took the number 28 back to the central bus station( http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/bus-station.html ). It passes the Tnuva dairy plant. Fresh dairy products are one of the joys of Jerusalem. (Madison, capital of the Dairy State, cannot match Jerusalem for the quality and variety of dairy products.) The land having been bought by kharedi interests for other purposes, Tnuvah has announced it will closd the plant.
• Emap (http://www3.emap.co.il/eng_index.asp ) uses the same transliteration for khet as I do.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox