st” school?) are wearing more stylish dresses and hats."} 5f:{"position":2,"content":"The tents belong to a British army camp following the British victory over the Turks in 1917 and deployment along the northern ridges stretching from Nebi Samuel to the Mount of Olives. The compound appears similar to other British army compounds in Library of Congress photographs. The day started off cool, and the girls have shed their sweaters. It’s a warm spring day, and based on the shadows, it’s probably around 2 p.m."} 60:{"position":3,"content":"In fact, the day was Tuesday, April 30, 1918. The procession is almost certainly an organized outing of several Jerusalem schools taking place on Lag Ba’omer, four weeks after Passover. Traditionally Jews flock to the Galilee mountaintop of Meron on that day, to the grave of Shimon Bar Yohai, one of the most famous scholars in the Talmud. But some 100 years ago, travel to Meron would have taken days. Instead, the children hiked to Shimon Hatzadik’s grave, a known custom in Jerusalem at that time."} 62:T45a,

Veteran Jerusalemite Shmulik Huminer wrote in his memoirs, “Anyone who could travel to Meron on Lag Ba’omer would go, and there [would] take place miracles and wonders. But...the residents of Jerusalem who couldn’t afford to travel to Mero

An enigmatic photograph

A Jewish children’s parade long ago reveals more than what the eye first sees.