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...

Israel Museum

Founded in 1965, the Israel Museum is the country's flagship museum and largest cultural institution. Home to one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of art an...

Jerusalem House of Quality

Established in 1963 with the blessing of Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and President Yitzhak Ben Zvi, the Jerusalem House of Quality is a non-profit foundation, museum and galler...

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...

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...

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...

Jerusalem Mall (Malcha)

The Azrieli Group's Jerusalem Mall (Malcha) is by far Jerusalem's largest and most popular shopping mall. The three-level facility is home to a staggeringly sizeable kosher food ...

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...

Muslim Quarter

Sprawling across the northeastern portion of the Old City, and by far the largest of its four quarters, is the Moslem Quarter, which not only occupies the lion's share of the...

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...