We've been in Rehovot, Israel, for the last two months while my husband
is a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. I usually use
email, not blogging, to tell people about my travels, but I'm making an
exception for a few photo essays.
I do a lot of walking and I look down too much. And so I noticed
that Israeli manhole covers are (a) square (but didn't we all learn they
had to be circular so they couldn't fall in? maybe there's another
solution to the falling-in problem?) and (b) varied and interesting.
The manhole cover here is the first photograph I took in Israel. I
used it as the lockscreen background for my Israeli cell phone.
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| Manhole Cover at the old HaTachana Railroad Station, now a mall,Tel Aviv/Jaffa. Dec. 31, 2012 |
I found my next manhole cover photo op also in Tel Aviv.
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| Outside the Felicja Blumental Music Center, Tel Aviv, February 2, 2013. |
Eilat's manhole covers feature an anchor and a sun and waves - and maybe a Crusader's castle?
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| February 20, 2013 |
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| Blow-up of center medallion |
A similar one in Jerusalem has the lion of Judah in the center.
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| Jerusalem, February 21, 2013 |
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| Blow-up of center medallion. |
Two days later we went to Tel Aviv to take the free tour of Bauhaus architecture offered by the city. This one is a beauty.
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| Tel Aviv, February 23, 2013 |
In Rehovot, there are quite a few like this next one. It says, in English, Hebrew and Arabic:
"Caution Optical Fiber!" Can the fiber hurt you or is the warning to protect the fiber, so that you
don't accidentally cut it when you fall into the manhole?
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| February 17, 2013 |
Also in Rehovot, an interesting one with a twin (see its corner above the one photographed). And look at what is to the left of the center medallion.
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| March 4, 2013 |
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| Patent pending! |
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| A book at the bottom. A microscope to the left? Is this in honor of the Weizmann Institute? | |
Then there are the triples, photographed in Rehovot, later spotted in Tel Aviv as well. One version has a person in the middle, one a truck.
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| February 17, 2013 |
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| The Person |
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| The Truck (also taken February 17, 2013) |
