Exhibition

Visiting the digitalisers at work

A very busy day preparing for the 1 hour exhibition for the Hebrew University conference. Found out some of the world's top medievalists are in the group. Daunting. The whole morning was spent arranging the exhibits of 12th and 13th century manuscripts .... some are really impressive.

At 3.30pm the group came and they were very impressed by the exhibition. And they also wanted to see the work of our British Library team digitalizing our manuscripts. They also got a tour of the modern section of our library. All in all it was very successful and everyone was happy.

One of our illuminated manuscripts

Now it's exactly 12 hours since I started preparation for this exhibition. Am exhausted. My good friend Sharfi asked to have dinner with me so I guess I'll go .... just to relax from 3 days of very hard work. He's jewish and vegetarian so usually I let him choose the place to eat. We'll see where we'll go. It's raining so I hope it's not going to be far. I don't have a raincoat on.  

And yes it's raining. Weather forecaster say it's the last rain before a hot dry summer sets in. News reports say thousands of syrians are running away from the war in the bitter cold winter. Some children have already died from the cold. It's horrific.

And Iran has recorded it's first 2 cases of coronavirus. It's time we realized viruses don't respect borders. Here in Israel we're just preparing ourselves for the 1st case. Hopefully the hot dry summer will come quickly and the virus dies out before it reaches our country.