そんなテルアビブ★イスラエル★

今回もヨルダン経由、ヘリコプターで西岸に行き、

その後、ベングリオン空港におりたったようですが、

日程が3日という短期だからか？ヘリコプターだったのね？

PopeMobile はどうやって運んでいるのだろうか？

とことで、イスラエル側に到着して、

もちろんエルサレムと Yad Vashem に訪問しているのですが

しかし、ロイターはどうしてこの写真を選んだの？

記事のお題の「障害物 OBSTACLE 」という言葉を強調したかったの？　

Pope weaves through Mideast obstacle course as visit ends

JERUSALEM Mon May 26, 2014 10:57pm IST



「主よ、二度と、二度と繰り返されないように!!」

"Never again, Lord. Never again!"



これ以上、、私に突っ込み入れないでね。

私の事、知ってる方は・・・わかるでしょ＾＾


Pope at Holocaust memorial: Never again, Lord, never again!

Francis kissed the hands of a half-dozen Holocaust survivors as he heard their stories and of loved ones killed by the Nazis.

Published: 05.26.14, 13:18 / Israel News

After laying a wreath at the tomb of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl, and visiting Israel's Memorial to Terror Victims on Monday, Pope Francis honored the memories of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.

Accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, Francis prayed before a crypt with ashes of victims and laid a wreath of yellow and white flowers in the "Hall of Remembrance."

And then the pope made the type of gesture of humility that has become his custom since being elected pontiff in 2013.

One by one, he kissed the hands of a half-dozen Holocaust survivors as he heard their stories and of loved ones killed by the Nazis during World War II.

"Never again, Lord, never again!" Francis said. "Here we are, Lord, shamed by what man - created in your own image and likeness, was capable of doing."

Reading a haunting personal reflection that was a cross between a poem and a prayer, he called the Holocaust "a boundless tragedy", adding: "A great evil has befallen us, such as never happened under the heavens. Now, Lord, hear our prayer, hear our plea, save us in your mercy. Save us from this horror."

Joseph Gottdenker, born in Poland in 1942, said he briefly told the pope how he was saved as a boy by Catholics who hid him during the Holocaust. Gottdenker, who now lives in Canada, said he was more emotional than he expected to be when he met the pope.

"The Catholic people who saved me and risked the lives of their whole families to save me, they are looking down today and proud to see me meet the leader of their faith," Gottdenker said after the ceremony.

Speaking minutes after landing in Israel on Sunday, Francis called the Holocaust "an enduring symbol of the depths to which human evil can sink", adding: "I beg God that there will never be another such crime."


Pope Francis at Yad Vashem (Photo; Ido Erez)


西の壁訪問。

ベネゼクト16世もそうでしたが、フランシスコ17世も、　

炭水化物と甘いもの、もう少し減らされたほうがお体によろしいかと？


私、ど～してもフランシスコ17世で頭からはなれないことがる。


ま～リンク先にあるビデオと解説をどうぞ・・

Oops! Pope Francis Accidentally Says The F-Word In Italian

Native Spanish speaker Pope Francis, using Italian in his weekly Vatican address Sunday, said the obscene "cazzo," which Italians often utter as an F-bomb, instead of "caso," which means "case." He quickly corrected himself and moved on.





Haaretz社をアップしたいのですが、文字の関係で、Ynet新聞社似いたしました。

Haaretz社では月曜日26日の一連の流れをすべてアップしてるわよ。

Pope leaves Holy Land after hectic three-day tour

By Ilene Prusher , Nir Hasson, Haaretz, The Associated Press, DPA and Reuters | May 26, 2014 | 9:04 PM |


Pope at the Western Wall: I pray God will make peace prevail

In sign of interfaith friendship, Pope Francis embraces Argentine friends Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, and leader of Argentina's Muslim community, Omar Abboud.
Associated Press

Published: 05.26.14, 13:31 /  Ynet

"I have come here to pray to God to make peace prevail," Pope Francis said Monday as he prayed at the Western Wall, one the Jews' most revered shrines and a sole remnant of their sacred Second Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

Before approaching the Holy site the Pope received a briefing on the history of the Temple Mount by a guide using a three dimensional map. The Pope heard of the two Jewish Temples, their destruction, and the evolving architecture of the Temple Mount.

Like many visitors, he tucked a small written message between the ancient stones before walking away.

He left a note with the text of the "Our Father" prayer written in his native Spanish in one of the cracks between the stones.

When St. John Paul II visited the Western Wall in 2000, he left a note asking forgiveness for the suffering inflicted on Jews by Christians over history. Pope Benedict XVI's note prayed for peace for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike.

Pope Francis then embraced his good friend, Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, and a leader of Argentina's Muslim community, Omar Abboud, both of whom joined his official delegation for the trip in a sign of interfaith friendship.

"The Jerusalem you have arrived at, honored Pope, is not only the physical Jerusalem. It is also the Jerusalem of dreams; the dream of millions of Jews throughout two thousand long years of exile. Jerusalem is a dream that has been realized; we are still walking in it as dreamers, expecting the full realization of the dream," said Western Wall Shmuel Rabbi Rabinowitz.

Relating to the destruction of the Second Temple, Rabbi Rabinowitz spoke of Titus’s Arch in Rome, which depicts the exile of the Jews. "It is true, Titus succeeded in taking the Menorah (candelabrum) and the tools of the Temple; but the light of faith, and the hope to return to the land of our fathers, he was not successful in extinguishing," he remarked.

"We have traveled a long road on the way home; we have journeyed from the four corners of the land."

Quoting the vision of the prophets, he read from the Book of Isaiah: "And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

Rabbi Rabinowitz concluded by asking believers of all religions "to fight hatred and anti-Semitism which has increases more and more."

The pope then signed a visitor's book where he expressed his thanks and quoted the prophet Isaiah: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

In a decision that delighted his hosts, Francis later laid a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl, who is seen as the founder of modern Zionism that led to Israel's foundation.

The Catholic Church initially opposed the creation of a Jewish state, and the three other pontiffs who have come to Jerusalem over the past 50 years did not visit the site.