An Excerpt from Ella's Israel Journal: City of David and Yad Kennedy

Ella and family at the entrance to City of David

Day 7
7/28/10

My family and me went to the City of David. We saw a movie about what happened a long time ago. Then, we went in an old water tunnel.

The back of Uncle Bennie's head as we enter Hezekiah's water tunnels. Nice kippa!

We went to a place where you plant a tree if someone good you know died. I planted one for my Grandpa Billy. The tree was a pistachio tree.

Ella

At Yad Kennedy. A grove of trees honors Grandpa Billy, who died in 1966.

Grandpa Billy's marker "William Shetzer Frank" at Yad Kennedy

Planting ourr pistachio tree saplings for Grandpa Billy

Saplings planted!

With Michael, the arborist who helped us with the saplings.

"Give dew for a blessing
And cause benificent rains
To fall in their season,
To satiate the mountains of Israel
And her valleys
And to water thereon
Every plant and tree.
And these saplings
Which we plant before you this day.

Make deep their roots
And wide their crown,
That they may blossom forth in grace
Amongst all the trees in Israel,
For good and for beauty."

From Prayer for Planting Trees in Israel