Jerusalem travel guide
Still the centerpiece of many a journey to Israel, as it has been throughout the centuries, Jerusalem continues to reward the traveler with its riches.
Places to visit in Jerusalem
Physically, Jerusalem is actually many cities in one, with more than 800,000 residents. The modern part of the city, spreading out to the west, north, and south, has been a Jewish enclave since its inception in the late 1800s, and from 1948 the capital of the State of Israel. Vast new Jewish neighborhoods have been built in open areas captured in 1967. In many suburbs secular, traditional, and Orthodox Jews live alongside each other. Meanwhile, ultra-Orthodox Jews, with a prolific birth rate, have overflowed from Me’a She’arim in the center to Sanhedria and large new neighborhoods in the north of the city. Most of Jerusalem east of the old “green line” that divided it from 1948 to 1967 (during which time it was Jordanian) remains Arab, although many neighborhoods have again been cut off from Jewish Jerusalem by the new Security Wall. In the center of it all is the Old City, wrapped in its ancient golden walls, containing much of historic Jerusalem and its shrines.
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