Jerusalem Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Israel.... AMAZING! So, I started out at 6am leaving for the airport, only to realize while on the Southern State that I left my ticket at home. Only to delay me a 1/2 at the airport longer. Thank God there were other people later than me on line. I didn't completely feel like a spaz! Going London was amazing. The flight was EMPTY! I had a whol...

As I mentioned in my previous blog - our son Sasha and his girlfriend Michal hosted us in Israel...we spent our first night in their apartment in Tel-Aviv, woke up early next morning, packed our things into Sasha's car and went to Jerusalem...Sasha and Michal got a couple of days off to spend some time with us in Jerusalem, so - we were really l...

The Dome of the Rock to the Arabs and the Temple Mount to the Jews. This place is critical, You could feel the tension here. We had to go through two security checks to get into the Dome area that contains one entrance and one exit. The Jews refuse to visit the Temple, they are allowed to visit outside like the other faiths. The Dome is under th...

After a day in Petra we travelled by bus back to Amman for the night to ensure we could get through the border on the next morning (Friday 9 May to Israel). We had heard lots of comment about the border crossing being difficult, really heavy security etc. Our experience was different - The border crossing is very busy and confusing but we found ...

Well after getting lots of sleep today, my father and I spent most of the afternoon shopping in the market that is one of the largest open air markets in all of Israel. It was very loud and some parts were smelly- because of the various types of food that was being sold. The market is called Mahane Yehuda Market. We made a list in both English a...

The day started off great! We got up, ate breakfast of eggs, Swedish sandwiches and coffee and then did the final packing. Not to bad-only one extra bag full of Hebron glass that I had bought. :-) I found a taxi to take us to Damascus Gate so we could catch the bus but he offered to take us to the border for 250NIS and that was for all of us. It...

Day 2 - J**usalem by day Today we would explore J**usalem from all angles. So first we strengthened ourselves with a typical Israeli breakfast buffet: mainly bread, cheeses, eggs and h**ring - an old East**n European Jewish tradition. Th**e isn't any meat as that would not be kosh** (milk and meat must nev** be combined!). The old city of J**usa...

Soon after returning from Egypt, David and I went down to Jerusalem to once again experience Rosh Hashanah in the old city (we also went to Jerusalem for Rosh Hashanah two years ago). Hearing the shofar at the Western Wall on Rosh Hashanah was definitely the highlight of the holiday. While in Jerusalem we also celebrated David's 22nd birthday! W...

Registration started at noon, and went to about 2 PM. After that we went to the Ben-Yehuda and got some Falofle for lunch. Here are just some pictures of the school/students and a picture of me with 2 IDF spec ops guys in front of their motorcycle. I came up to them with a camera and just kind of pointed at it (They didn't speak English) and the...

OK another surreal experience...I got to shoot basketball on Mt. Zion. I nice game of horse. I made a few...missed a few...I wondered if Jesus ever played hoops on Zion...Talk about old school. After our initial orientation this morning it was off for a "nibble around the edges of Jerusalem" - when they said "around" they meant "around". We walk...