Israel has been as thoroughly conquered by McDonald's as the rest of the populated world, but Israelis can at least pride themselves on forcing a corporation known for requiring strict conformity and uniformity in the production of hamburgers to bend significantly to suit the desires of the local population. Israel, in fact, is the only country in which McDonald's has altered its famous logo – due to pressure from the Israeli rabbinate, kosher McDonald's now feature blue, rather than red, signs and the name of the restaurant in Hebrew rather than English.

But the not kosher McDonald's outlets, which offer forbidden mixtures of meat and dairy and employ Jewish workers on Shabbat engendered no small amount of controversy and sparked massive protests by Jerusalem's Orthodox Jewish community.

Controversy aside, a McDonald's is essentially a McDonald's wherever it is. If you've eaten at one anywhere, the Jerusalem version will be familiar territory.