Country Info
- Jerusalem
- Capital
- New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
- Currency
- 5,938,093
- Population
- IL
- Country Code
Jerusalem Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem - the Old City
Jerusalem is an amazing city, and the Old Town is just breath taking. Alex and I were staying at a hostel called El Hashimi, right by the Damascus Gate. Beautiful sunrise views over the Golden Dome of the mosque and Mount of the Olives from their roof ...
Jérusalem et Bethléem
... le musée du Holocauste, j’avais le gout de vomir et pleurer en même temps. On est aussi allée au musée d’Israel, là ou tout les manuscrits religieux sont exposé, mais surtout ou il y a une maquette immense de Jérusalem dans le temps de ...
First Few Prayer Watches & The Sabbath
... few minutes after the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. The Sabbath is still widely observed in Israel, and most businesses and stores close for the Sabbath. The interns and staff are having dinner together tonight for ...
Sep 19, 2011
Masada, Mud & A Float
Shabbat Shalom (Good Sabbath) from Jerusalem....As the city begins to shut down for Shabbat at sunset we find time to get off a quick blog about the last day or so. Another amazing and wonderful day yesterday as we travelled east and south ...
Getting lost in the Muslim hood ...
Keeping in the Israeli laundry theme, I visited the local laundro today. This one did the clean deed themselves. I engaged in my first Holy Land bargaining. 50 shekels ($17 approx Aus $) was just too much for my meagre 1.9kg lot (yes, they weigh the ...
David's Tomb, Upper Room, East Jerusalem
Flagged a taxi, went to Mt Zion and wandered around David's Tomb area, and up to the Upper Room. It's last day of Pesach so everything else is closed. Found a church with a dungeon we could go down and had a cup of coffee. Melody leaned over the railing ...
Jerusalem Syndrome
... our way through the hills out of town the main hospital was pointed out to us and it has a special psychiatric ward for "Jerusalem Syndrome". Its surprising the number of visitors to this region that suddenly become... shall we say... someone else? lol ...