In and around other parts of Ramat Gan

 Ramat Gan was founded in 1921 as an agricultural village. A recent estimate (2013) of its population was 150,000. It is about five square miles in area of which about one square mile are comprised of parks.  


The first image is taken from on of those parks, namely the Garden of Abraham which is on a pretty good sized hill. I'm not sure if the Abraham, for which the park is named, is Abraham Krinitzi, the first mayor of Ramat Gan (he was mayor for over 40 years) or Abraham Gordon, an 18th century British Lord who converted to Judaism or another Abraham. However, I got to the hill in time to take a picture of a rainbow (it was the Sunday after the Sabbath after Passover). The rain was still falling on the Judean Hills east of Ramat Gan.


The second image is also taken from the top of the Garden of Abraham hill. It shows a garden in the foreground and the towers of the diamond district of Ramat Gan in the background. The tall round tower is the tallest building in Israel, about 800', and is called the Moshe Aviv Tower (Moshe Aviv was the head of the construction company and he died a few weeks before the building was completed). 

The third image is of some deer in the zoo in Ayalon Park. This park is in easy walking distance of Beth's apartment and I went there several times during our visit. They also had some ostriches and emu (two emu are in the same pen as the deer) and various other animals and attractions.  

The Ayalon River goes through the park. When I went on the Sunday after passover, the river was about twice as wide as when I went during Passover because of the significant rains during the end of Passover.



Also in Ramat Gan but not within easy walking distance is a modern shopping mall. Near the mall is a hardware store that is modeled on the Home Depot template. It is called Home Center, both in English and in Hebrew as seen in the fourth image.

The fifth image shows a new residential tower on Jabotinsky Street with a nice garden in front of it and evidence of lots of retail nearby. Personally, I think its nice to have gardens and ground level retail near high rise residential towers as they give the residents a better experience. 

The sixth image is of a building with nice rounded balconies on Rashi Square. I think the upper floors are residential while a police station is on lower floors. It is on Jabotinsky Street in Ramat Gan. The flag of Israel is obvious and three flags in front of the building are for Israel, Ramat Gan and, I think, the police force. 

The seventh image of some ham that is for sale at a grocery on Hertzl street quite near Beth's apartment (this is the only store I found that had ham for sale). 

The word for  ham (Hatzarim - which is plural for pig) is shown in Hebrew but not English. This is perhaps because the customers for ham are mainly Russians and Arab Christians who don't know English well. Note also, that there are many types of ham for sale there.