Some eight years ago, in 2016, I needed to paint something special for a unique exhibition.

I decided to paint on the theme: “All roads lead to Jerusalem — by sea, by land, and by air.”

It was around the time when the light rail was just beginning,
and I thought of including it in the painting — to express the pilgrimage to Jerusalem by car, by air, by train, and on foot.

I took a very large canvas, 120 by 100 cm, vertically,
and painted it in a grayish tone, beginning to create rather dramatic skies…

At a certain point, I felt it just wasn’t right — that it wouldn’t turn into a creation worthy of my heart!
So I set the canvas aside.

(If you’re curious what I ended up exhibiting,
I painted several small pieces of an old, neglected courtyard about to be demolished in the Bukharim neighborhood —
a truly special series!)

A few years later, in 2021, I came across that same blank canvas again.
I turned it from vertical to horizontal — and suddenly, wow!

I felt inspired to continue the painting,
and that’s how this creation of Jerusalem was born.

Recently, two interior designers decided to choose a piece based on that very painting
for a home they were designing.
I was asked to recreate it — adjusted to a huge, square size of 183 by 183 cm —
and in slightly more colorful tones, to better suit the atmosphere of the home they had designed.

Just imagine the energy required to paint something that large!

Thank God, the result came out beautifully — to everyone’s satisfaction.

And this is how it looks in the home’s space.