Neighborhoods In Jerusalem

Discover the best neighborhoods in Jerusalem with curated recommendations from our editors.

Center City

West Jerusalem's Downtown and near-Downtown areas, just west of the Old City, are a mix of old neighborhoods, new limestone edifices, monuments...

  • 61 Restaurants
  • 20 Hotels
  • 78 Things To Do

Christian and Muslim Quarters

Fragmented into a dozen denominational domains, the Christian Quarter is capped by the great gray dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher....

  • 7 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 11 Things To Do

City of David

If you thrill to the thought of standing where the ancients once stood, you’ll be in your element in this city of memories, from Old Testament...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

East Jerusalem

Loosely speaking, East Jerusalem refers to the Arab neighborhoods controlled by Jordan in the years when the city was divided (1948–67). That...

  • 6 Restaurants
  • 7 Hotels
  • 11 Things To Do

German Colony and Baka

The German Colony got its name from a group of breakaway Lutherans known as the Templers (not the medieval ones: these are spelled with an ...

  • 15 Restaurants
  • 6 Hotels
  • 21 Things To Do

Jaffa Gate

Jaffa Gate got its name from its westerly orientation, toward the Mediterranean harbor of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv. Its Arabic name of Bab...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Jewish Quarter

This is at once the Old City's oldest quarter and its newest neighborhood. Abandoned for a generation after the War of Independence, the quarter...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 9 Things To Do

Mount Zion

Thousands of years ago, Mount Zion lay within the compass of the city walls, protected in the west and south by the virtually unassailable slopes...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Old City

The city's primary religious sites in the Christian and Muslim quarters, and at the Western Wall, are the very essence of historical Jerusalem...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 0 Things To Do

West Jerusalem

Visitors tend to focus, naturally enough, on the historical and religious sights in the Old City, on the eastern side of town; but West Jerusalem...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 5 Hotels
  • 20 Things To Do

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