Jerusalem Attractions

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Herzl Museum

Theodor Herzl, all by himself, comprises a mighty portion of Israel's identity. In many ways a Zionist Moses, a radical dreamer who died on the verge of seeing his impossible dream...

Old Yishuv Court Museum

Contrary to the increasingly popular idea of Palestine being barren of Jews until the first great spasm of immigration in the late 1800s, a sizable and healthy Jewish community...

The Museum of Islamic Art

Opened to the public in 1974, Jerusalem's L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art boasts one of the world's foremost collections of Islamic art and antique timepieces. The L.A. Mayer M...

The Museum of Natural History

The Museum of Natural History, housed in a historic structure from the 19th century in Jerusalem's German Colony neighborhood, is much more than simply a museum. A natural oasis in...

Markets and Shopping

Alrov Mamilla Avenue

The construction of the new Mamilla has had its ups and downs over the past 40 years, but in 2007, the highly anticipated Alrov Mamilla Avenue finally opened, bringing an unprecede...

Arab Souk

The Arab souk (market) that sprawls across the Christian and Moslem Quarters in Jerusalem's Old City is a cluttered warren of bizarre juxtapositions, stalls hawking shoddy Midd...

Ben Yehuda Street

In one of the fundamental ironies that defines modern Jerusalem, one is just as likely to hear English as Hebrew on the street named after the father of the revived Hebrew la...

Machane Yehuda

Jerusalem is in many ways a modern Western city, but those visitors wanting a raw whiff of true Middle Eastern life have only to walk 10 minutes from the city center up Agrippa...

Historic and Religious Sites

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Rising out of the maze of alleyways that constitutes the Old City's Christian Quarter is the hulking edifice of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the most important Holy Land...

Hurva Synagogue

Perhaps no single location embodies the turbulent history of the Old City's Jewish Quarter as fully as the Hurva Synagogue. It was once the grandest synagogue in the Land of ...

Knesset

The Knesset may occupy a topographically and politically lofty plateau, looming imposingly over the city of Jerusalem and the future of the State of Israel, but as far as cente...

Ramparts Walk

The towering surrounding walls of the Old City, an impressive union of medieval and Middle Eastern architectural features, is among Jerusalem's most striking features. The wall...

Extreme Sports and the Great Outdoors

Challenge Tours

Discover Jerusalem's nature and vistas from a fresh perspective - hanging by a rope 20 meters above the ground. Challenge Tours offers extreme sport adventure activities, for all a...

Sovoo Electronic Bike Tours

Sovoo's electronic bicycle sightseeing experience in Jerusalem is the newest way to tour the eternal city as you've never seen it before. The company's name is taken from the bibli...