{"id":119912,"date":"2025-11-19T07:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/?p=119912"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T12:47:08","slug":"binyanei-hauma-jerusalem-an-unexpected-morning-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/binyanei-hauma-jerusalem-an-unexpected-morning-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Binyanei HaUma Jerusalem \u2013 an Unexpected Morning Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"1021\">In central Jerusalem, near Binyanei HaUma and the city\u2019s main entrance, a quiet morning ritual unfolds without most passersby ever noticing. Larisa, 91, from Mishkenot HaUma, walks the same short route every day with her walker carrying three bags: food for pigeons, food for street cats, and a bundle of recyclables. Above her, pigeons sketch her path in the air, and beside her walks her loyal black cat \u2014 the only one she allows to accompany her through Jerusalem\u2019s streets. Any other cat attempting to join earns a quick, unmistakable look of disapproval.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1097\"><strong data-start=\"1027\" data-end=\"1097\">How to walk from the Chords Bridge to Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1099\" data-end=\"1371\">It\u2019s a very short distance: about 350 meters, roughly a 4 minute walk. Anyone coming from the Chords Bridge and heading straight toward Binyanei HaUma steps directly into Larisa\u2019s morning world, where pigeons circle, cats follow, and the urban rhythm softens as she moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dawn ritual near Jerusalem\u2019s entrance and the Chords Bridge reveals a hidden urban world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":119913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Binyanei HaUma Jerusalem \u2013 an Unexpected Morning Ritual","_seopress_titles_desc":"A dawn ritual near Jerusalem\u2019s entrance and the Chords Bridge reveals a hidden urban world","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10327,9333,10335,9314],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking","8":"category-culture-religion-life-in-jerusalem","9":"category-leisure-in-jerusalem","10":"category-main-item"},"acf":{"subtitle":"A dawn ritual near Jerusalem\u2019s entrance and the Chords Bridge reveals a hidden urban world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}