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Burgers Bar branch in the Jewish Quarter near Hurva Square. The chain lists its kashrut as Badatz Yoreh De'ah (Rav Machpud). Google Maps places it at 16 Tiferet Yisrael.

Closed to general visitors: the Israel Museum lists it as temporarily closed, and since July 2025 it opens only for guided group tours run by the Tower of David Museum, booked in advance. A white limestone Mandate-era museum just outside the Old City walls near Herod's Gate, holding finds from excavations across the country between 1919 and 1948, displayed largely as they were laid out when the building opened. It has been run as part of the Israel Museum since 1968.

The citadel at Jaffa Gate, reopened in June 2023 after a decade-long renewal, with ten galleries telling Jerusalem's story through archaeology, film and interactive displays, plus the moat, the archaeological courtyard and the 360-degree view from Phasael Tower.

A daily two-hour tips-based walking tour of the Old City's four quarters in English, meeting in the plaza outside Jaffa Gate, with viewpoints over the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Guides are licensed by Israel's Ministry of Tourism.

The roof terrace of the nineteenth-century Austrian pilgrim guesthouse, where Via Dolorosa crosses Hagai Street, giving an open view over the Old City rooftops, the Temple Mount and out to the Mount of Olives for a token fee.

A guided walk through illuminated glass sculptures set in ancient halls beside the Western Wall, telling the story of Jewish continuity and ending at a window over the Kotel. Runs in Hebrew and English with advance booking.

The national park on the ridge just outside Dung Gate where ancient Jerusalem began, with Warren's Shaft, the dry Canaanite tunnel and the water-filled Hezekiah's (Siloam) Tunnel running down to the Pool of Siloam. Sold as self-guided entry, with guided tours bookable separately.

The rebuilt nineteenth-century Hurva synagogue, the landmark dome of the Jewish Quarter, visited as a ticketed site with an underground passage of earlier remains and an upper walkway giving a 360-degree view over the Old City.

The excavated area along the southern and western walls of the Temple Mount - Herodian street, the pilgrim steps, ritual baths and the toppled stones of 70 CE - with an indoor exhibition centre. Run by the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter.

A walk along the top of Suleiman's sixteenth-century city walls, on two routes from Jaffa Gate: south past the Tower of David to Dung Gate, or north above the Christian and Muslim Quarters to Lions' Gate. Unusually for a ticketed Jerusalem site, it is open on Shabbat.

The excavated basement of a priestly family's house burned in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, presented with an audio-visual reconstruction of the city's last days. One of the most direct pieces of evidence for the destruction found in the Jewish Quarter.

Six mansions of Jerusalem's Second Temple-era aristocracy, preserved three metres below today's Jewish Quarter beneath Yeshivat HaKotel, with frescoes, mosaic floors, stone vessels and ritual baths. One of the largest underground archaeological sites of its kind.

A 40-minute sound-and-light show projected onto the walls of the Tower of David citadel, telling Jerusalem's story in images and music with no spoken language. Two versions run - the classic Night Spectacular and 'King David' - ticketed separately from the museum.

The original Western Wall Tunnels tour, walking the hidden continuation of the Kotel under the Old City past Herodian vaults, cisterns and the Strouthion Pool, including the huge 'Great Stone'. Entry is only with a certified guide and only by advance reservation.

A vast man-made cavern quarried under the Old City, running some 225 metres in from the wall between Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate. It now hosts an immersive projection show, 'Mysteries Beneath the Walls', alongside limited self-guided entry.

Meuhedet health fund branch on Chabad Street inside the Old City, listed in the Dapei Zahav business directory among Meuhedet's Jerusalem branches. It is the health fund's local point of service for residents of the Jewish Quarter. Opening hours are not published in the directory listing, so call ahead or check Meuhedet's own branch finder.

Independent pharmacy just inside Jaffa Gate: take the first left onto Latin Patriarchate Road. It is the nearest pharmacy we found to the Jewish Quarter. Listings give different opening hours.

A large Jewish Quarter shop for Jewish books in several languages, tallitot, mezuzot and Judaica.

Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. Part of Aish HaTorah. Based at the Aish HaTorah building facing the Western Wall. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Women's seminary in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. It describes itself as Sephardic. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Women's seminary in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. It describes itself as Religious Zionist. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Yeshiva with a program for English speakers. Who it is for: Motivated bochurim who want to reach advanced, independent learning. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. It describes itself as Religious Zionist. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.

Yeshiva in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City for English-speaking students from abroad, mostly for a year after high school. It describes itself as Religious Zionist and intellectually open. Dates, costs and admissions are on its own site.