You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate. Each doorway marks a significant era of Jerusalem's ...

To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...

While the tower's original purpose was to defend Jerusalem ... The Tower of David Museum overlooks Jaffa Gate on the western edge of the Old City. Hours of operation and the lightshow schedule ...

Herod's Pillar, or the Finger of Og, lies openly in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Close to Jaffa Street ... what we know as the Old City’s Jewish Quarter ...

At a recent lecture hosted by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Yasir Suleiman, professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge guided the audience through the ...

Hard times fell on the Jewish residents in Old Jerusalem ... City, visitors to the Kotel, and yeshiva boys studying nearby. Its entrance is off of the main artery that leads from Damascus Gate ...

They moved to Jerusalem to live like the “first Christians,” where they re-established their religious community in a rented Old City home near the Damascus Gate. “He was always very keen on ...

The commanding Clock Tower, which is a stone’s throw from the light rail stop, was built in in 1900 in “Palestine” by the ...

The book describes itself as ‘a new biography of the Old City’. It’s a pithy description ... to one of the most incendiary issues in Jerusalem today: the fate of two Church-owned hotels at Jaffa Gate ...

Layers of history are invoked to mobilise and encourage and to suggest the value of reviving old patterns of response to contemporary ... flags flying over the German consulates in Jerusalem and Jaffa ...