Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Acknowledgements 5
Section I Background Information 13
Facts about Jerusalem 15
History 15
Borders 16
Topography 17
Flora and Fauna 17
Religion 18
Buildings 18
Street Signs and Names 18
Archeology 19
Miscellaneous 21
Visas 21
Government Tourist Office 21
Security 21
Newspapers 21
Time 22
Emergency 22
Disabled Visitors 22
Business Hours 23
Accommodations 23
Lost and Found 24
Religious Matters 25
Sabbath Meals 25
Sha'atnez 25
Shabbat Eruv 25
T'chum Shabbat 26
Yom Tov Sheini 26
Simchat Torah - Hakafot 27
Purim 27
Meimuna 27
Asking a Rabbi 27
Candle Lighting Times 28
Calculating Sunrise 28
Parshat HaShavua Reading 29
Weekly Pages 29
Genizah 29
Classes and Lectures 29
Funerals 29
Cemeteries 30
Mikvah 30
Men 30
Women 30
Kashering Utensils 31
Synagogues 31
Minyan "factories" 31
Cohanim 31
General 31
Birkat Cohanim 31
Museums 32
Graves outside Cemeteries 32
Cemeteries 32
Kashrut 33
Mehadrin and "Regular" 33
Pas/Bishul Yisrael 33
Wine 33
On the Airplane 34
Pesach Books 34
Passover 34
After Passover 35
Laws Pertaining to the Land of Israel 37
Shemitah 37
Chadash 37
Tithing 37
B'chorot 38
Orlah 38
Events 39
Weddings 39
Music 39
Getting Around 41
Walking and Hiking 41
Local Busses 41
General 41
Friday Afternoon 42
Saturday Night 42
Mehadrin Busses 42
Light Rail 42
Vans 43
Touring 45
Fees 45
Section II Touring Jerusalem 47
Old City 49
Overview 49
Western Wall Area 51
Temple Mount 51
Viewing the Temple Mount 51
Gates to the Temple Mount 52
Under the Temple Mount 53
Western Wall Tunnel 55
Chain of Generations 56
Western Wall 56
Background 57
Prayers 57
Western Wall Plaza 59
HaKotel HaKatan 60
To Reach HaKotel HaKatan 60
Davidson Center 60
City of David 62
Tour 64
Jewish Quarter 67
Ariel, Center for Jerusalem during the First Temple 67
Batei Galicia 68
Broad Wall 69
Burnt House 70
Cardo 72
Herodian Quarter-Wohl Archeological Museum 74
Karaite Synagogue 75
Old Yishuv Court Museum 77
One Last Day Museum 79
Rechov Plugat HaKotel 79
Siebenberg House 79
Synagogues 79
Churva 80
Ben Zakai 81
Ramban 81
Tiferet Yisrael 81
Temple Institute 82
Other Sites in the Old City 85
Ramparts and the Gates of the Old City 85
Ramparts 85
Jaffa 85
New 86
Damascus Gate 87
Flower 87
Lions' 88
Mercy (Golden) 88
Dung 88
Zion 89
Hulda 89
Tower of David 89
Zedekiah's Cave 91
Mount of Olives 93
Graves of Prophets 93
Kidron Valley 94
Mount Zion 95
Cable Car Museum 95
Holocaust Museum 96
King David's Tomb 113
Mount Scopus 115
Augusta Victoria Hospital 115
British Cemetery 115
University 116
New City 119
Agnon House 119
Ammunition Hill 120
Bank of Israel 122
Begin Heritage Center 124
Belz Torah Center 125
Bezalel Academy 127
Bible Lands Museum 128
Biblical Zoo 129
Bloomfield Science Museum 131
Bukharian Neighborhood 133
Chagall Windows-Hadassah-Ein Karem 134
Davidka 134
Geula 134
Bikur Holim Hospital 134
Geula Neighborhood 137
Rechov Straus 138
Givat Shaul (Biblical) 139
Great Synagogue 141
Gush Katif Museum 143
Har Mamenuchot and Other Cemeteries 144
Hebrew University - Givat Ram 145
Botanical Gardens 145
National and University Library 145
Heichal Shlomo (Wolfson) Museum 147
Herzl Museum 148
Israel Museum 150
Miniature of Jerusalem 151
Shrine of the Book 152
Italian Jewry 153
Jerusalem Mall (Malkha) 154
Knesset 155
Machne Yehudah 155
Market 155
Ministry of Health 156
Zohorei Hama - Sundial Synagogue 156
Mandate Prison 157
Mea Shearim 159
Mekor Baruch 160
Motza 161
Museum on the Seam 162
Natural History Museum 163
North African Jewry 164
Otzar HaPoskim 165
Promenade 166
Psalms Museum 167
Rav Kook House 167
Rebbe's Museum 169
Religious Zionist Archives 170
Rockefeller Museum 171
Safra Square 172
Shaarei Zedek Hospital 173
Sheikh Badr and Emergency Cemeteries in 1948 176
Shimon HaTzadik Grave 178
Supreme Court 179
Ticho House 179
Third Wall 180
Time Elevator 181
Tomb of the Kings 182
Yad Ben Zvi 183
Yad Sarah 184
Yad VaShem 185
Yemin Moshe 186
Zichron Moshe 188
Zion Square 188
Index 189
