Jerusalem Tours

The Plans for Rehavia Begun in 1922, the Rehavia neighborhood served as a “garden suburb” for Jewish families of Jerusalem who sought to escape the crowded conditions elsewhere in the ...

When I was a new immigrant (Oleh Hadash) I used to walk every day to Hebrew class. I passed the National Institutions Building twice every day. My route began at ...

It is amazing how Arab farmland changed hands through the Greek Orthodox Church, prosperous Christian Arabs, European consulates and Israeli government institutions to become the high class of Jerusalem. Talbiya ...

The Jaffa Gate The Jaffa Gate on the western side of the Old City in Jerusalem faces west to the main port of Judaea, Jaffa. The gate that you see ...

  Barclays Bank – New Jerusalem Municipality Adjacent to the Russian Compound Jerusalem’s City Hall is situated directly on the seam that once divided Jerusalem. The entire complex is equally ...

Parallel to the awakening Zionist movement and Jewish immigration (Aliyah) to the Holy Land, the world powers:- England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and America – each endeavoured to expand their ...

Christ Church Christ Church was consecrated on 21 January 1849, originally named the Apostolic Anglican Church, in a small compound just inside the Jaffa Gate opposite the Tower of David. Soon ...

Tatzpit Rehavam Ze’evi A lookout opposite the Seven Arches Hotel on the crest of the Mount of Olives is named Tatzpit Rehavam or Mitzpe Rehavam in memory of the assassinated ...

The construction of a Russian church in the Ottoman Empire was part of the grand strategy of the major European powers in the nineteenth century to “grace” the Holy City with buildings ...

My Hebrew University Not surprisingly, my alma mater is the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – but not on Mount Scopus. When I was an undergraduate (in Hebrew Hamor Noseh Sefarim ...