Country Info
- Jerusalem
- Capital
- New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
- Currency
- 5,938,093
- Population
- IL
- Country Code
Jerusalem Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Jerusalem, Israel
Day 25:Tower of David Museum,Enrico Macias Concert
This is a top pick! ... hotel). We decide to go to the Tower of David Museum for a few hours to get an introduction and historical overview of Jerusalem. It is open on this holiday. After the positive experience with the national park pass, we consider getting the ...
Jerusalem
This is a top pick! ... restaurant but a bit expensive (220 NIS for 3 with drinks), but they didn't have the "meurav yerushalmi (mixed meat, Jerusalem style)" I was craving.. We walked around the artisan area of Jerusalem and ate dessert and coffee in "Tmol Shilshom" ...
Shades of Israel
This is a top pick! ... in my life, but when traveling for extended periods of time, I've found that things tend to start blurring together. Therefore Jerusalem is one of three places I’ve chosen to slow down a little in order to get to know the people and ...
Goodbye Israel
This is a top pick! All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go, I'm standing here outside the door , I hate to wake you up to say goodbye. But the dawn is breakin', it's early morn', The Taxi's waitin', he's blown his horn. Already I'm so lonesome I could die. Thank you ...
Afterward Part 3: Touchstones
This is a top pick! "There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." By Rainer Maria Rilke This is my list of touchstones that I reference now and again while traveling. It's purpose is to keep me centered and grounded and remind me of what is ...
City of David
This is a top pick! On another day in Jerusalem, Linda from Israel Parks and Nature and I went to an alternative archaeology tour of the City of David, where we learned about the area from Alphie Greenberg, an archaeologist based in Tel Aviv for many years. Unlike ...
We are finally here, but...
This is a top pick! We finally landed in Ben Gurio International airport, got through passport inspection and customs with no problems and went out to get our rented cars from Budget. A simple ordeal it seems ... but maybe not so simple. They lost my parents' ...
Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl
This is a top pick! The program decided to leave Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem) and Mt. Herzl (Israel's version of the Arlington Cemetery) until the last day and I think the choice is a good one. We now have seen the various faces, cultures and ...
Jerusalem is mindblowing!
This is a top pick! ... - all because of a rock that's allegedly holly. It is fascinating! I am so ignorant about religion - I need to take a course. Yet, Jerusalem is much more than religion - it has a vibrant night life and it is striking how extremely religious people live ...
Roman Holiday in Israel
This is a top pick! ... stopped every couple of steps to take out the send from her sandals, my cousins started laughing and told her that this is Israel, get used to having sand and dust in your sandals. Afterwards we went to see the Roman aqueduct (which brought water to ...
Israeli-Chinese relations take a step back
This is a top pick! ... don't like their food." He later apologized. An Israeli Cabinet minister called the Chinese ambassador Wednesday to apologize after Israel's only Beijing Olympics medalist used a curse to describe the Chinese in a newspaper interview Majadle, who ...
Yom asal, Yom basal = 1 day honey, 1 day onions
This is a top pick! Some days I think it's a miracle that I haven't been in a bus crash. Other days I consider it no surprise since everything seems to operate by it's own design here. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why they call this the Holy Land. ...
Christmas in the Holy Land
This is a top pick! ... popular time as ever to make babies...So Andrew of course invited everyone out for a huge Christmas lunch in East Jerusalem. Now, I'm a dirty backpacker travelling on shoestring budget so I was somewhat daunted by the menu. Incredibly, Andrew insisted ...
The Jewish Jerusalem
This is a top pick! ... from the square. Shabbat begins at sundown on Friday and ends an hour after sunset on Saturday. During that time Israel (Jerusalem in particular) shuts down. While I was down at the wall a group of women was dancing and singing ...
excuses
This is a top pick! ... the History of Israel and Jewish religion, but I don't feel compelled to write the primer just this moment. My relationship with Israel and being Jewish, is complicated enough, and when I try to explain certain ideologies, I wind up having these circular ...
Behind the Security Fence
This is a top pick! ... our hostel, Elvis, declared that we should go to Bethlehem the next day. So we went. Bethlehem is only 6km away from Jerusalem. But it may as well be on the other side of the world. Because to get there you have to cross ...
Floating
This is a top pick! ... old ruin and we walked around and found the caves that Haim used to play in when he was a kid. We then drove around Jerusalem with Haim pointing out certain things and points of interest. As we were driving I saw lots of Orthodox Jews dressed in ...
The Muslim Jerusalem
This is a top pick! ... calls to prayer sounded regularly. They were especially obvious at sunset. The multi-cultural, multi-religious nature of Jerusalem meant that the calls weren't as prominent as they had been in Egypt, where you could easily hear five sounding ...
The Christian Jerusalem
This is a top pick! ... to hear all the gory historical details at any time I'm more than willing to bore you senseless. So Christian Jerusalem isn't really a land situation, although you've got the Christian quarter and it is chock full of Christian stuff ...
Tourists in a war zone
This is a top pick! ... Aviv for more good times in Israel's main hedonist beach and party capital. That would end my stay in Israel when I would head back to Jerusalem before going to pickup my bags, which were hopefully still in a hotel storage room in Jordan before ...
Guinness Draft in the Holy Land!!
... to get a rise out of mom!! However, there is some truth to it as I will explain as I discuss our trip to Jerusalem. After a nearly 24hr ordeal we finally arrived in Jerusalem. We should have known buses didn't run during the day during Roshoshauna. ...
back home!
4.3.07 I am back home. & im glad to be here. It was a good little break but it's a good thing to be back here. Its Passover week. I love being here for this. Yesterday we went to the garden of Gethsemane, & I just got to read the bible & pray, just ...
Heathens in the Holy Land
... white tourists) drive straight through, past the immense queues of cars containing people 'of Arab descent'... hello racial profiling. Jerusalem is a strange city. The population is a mix of Arab, Jewish and Christian and we are thoroughly confused as to ...
Jerusalem
... worlds: the Disneyland-like old city, the modern New City, with bustling streets, and the chaotic East Jerusalem that feels more Amman than Israel. There are no physical barriers between the three (aside from the ancient walls girdling the Old ...
2.8.07 - 2.11.07
2.8.07 Today was AMAZING! One of my classes is community service, so every third Thursday I go & help out in Calvary Chapel Tel Aviv cause they have a soup kitchen for the needy. So we get there about 1130 & start setting up the tables & rolling the ...
I love this place...
... 't say which one I like better because they're totally different. Yesterday morning, we went to the Holocaust Museum here in Jerusalem. It was incredibly powerful. It was such a huge amounts of information, but it was so heart wrenching. I really enjoyed ...
A Tale of Two Tombs
... the sites where most Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected (described in a recent post, "Tensions in Jerusalem's Old City"). Some Christians are convinced that another location is the more likely burial site. This second ...
It Was Best of Times, It Was The Worst of Times
... order and we move on. I said to Josse, "Well that was easy." He said, we still have two more checkpoints to go in Israel. Are you kidding me? We got to the next checkpoint about a mile down the road and it was a mess. One taxi had a ...
A Not-So-Restful Shabbat
... , considering how ritualistic and outside my standard Christian experience a lot of the churches I've been interacting with thus far in Jerusalem have been, I was expecting the explicitly Jewish one to not be the one I was most familiar with, but so it ...