Jerusalem neighbourhoods
29 areas of the city, each with the shops and services from our directory, the nearest light-rail stop and bus lines, and live bus times.
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33 places · Full guideGerman Colony
Cafés on Emek Refaim, the Train Track Park, and the largest English-speaking crowd in the city.
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14 places · Full guideBaka
Quieter than the Colony, strong religious-Zionist Anglo community, good schools, village feel.
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12 places · Full guideKatamon
Gardens, stone and a shul of every kind; the third leg of the Anglo family triangle.
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21 places · Full guideRehavia
Central, leafy and walkable, with academics, professionals and a large older Anglo population.
- 10 places · Full guide
Talbiyeh
The grandest houses, the theatre and the consulates, five minutes from the Old City.
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7 places · Full guideArnona
Newer buildings, parks and schools at a middle price, with a growing Anglo family population.
- 73 places · Full guide
Talpiot
Jerusalem's biggest shopping district, the Talpiot industrial zone, with malls, furniture and electronics stores and garages, beside the homes of Talpiot and Mekor Chaim.
- 2 places
Mekor Chaim
Baka's amenities without Baka's rent, next to the shops of the industrial zone.
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20 places · Full guideNachlaot
Alleys by the shuk, students and artists, everything walkable and nothing quiet.
- 63 places
City Centre
Above the shops on Jaffa Road and King George, with the best transport links in Jerusalem.
- 26 places
Old City
Inside the walls: the Jewish Quarter's homes and yeshivas, the Western Wall, and the Christian, Muslim and Armenian Quarters. Cars are limited, so most people come on foot through Jaffa Gate or Dung Gate.
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21 places · Full guideHar Nof
The largest English-speaking haredi community in the city, with its own shops and schools.
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15 places · Full guideRamat Eshkol
Young religious families and kollel couples, Anglo shops, and a light-rail stop.
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3 places · Full guideFrench Hill
The Hebrew University's neighbourhood: students, staff and one of the most mixed populations here.
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19 places · Full guideRamot
A neighbourhood of its own on the northern hills, from secular to haredi, more space per shekel.
- 9 places
Beit HaKerem
Established, green and mostly secular, with a straight light-rail ride into town.
- 5 places
Kiryat HaYovel
Diverse, affordable and increasingly young, in the south-west with good bus links.
- 5 places
Pisgat Ze'ev
Newer estates in the far north, mixed and mainstream, with the light rail into town.
- 3 places
Gilo
Southern hills, newer flats and views, at the lowest prices in the city for the space.
- 1 place
Har Homa
The newest of the southern neighbourhoods, built from the late 1990s: newer flats and views at some of the lowest prices in the city for the space.
- 4 places
Ein Kerem
A stone village in the valley with gardens and restaurants, if you do not mind driving.
- 14 places
Bayit Vegan
A hilltop religious neighbourhood in the south-west, with many yeshivas and seminaries and Shaare Zedek Medical Center close by.
- 31 places
Givat Shaul
At the western entrance to the city: mostly haredi homes beside the Givat Shaul business district, with its offices, event halls, workshops and shops.
- 40 places
Romema
Beside the Central Bus Station at the city entrance, mostly haredi, with Kiryat Mattersdorf and Tel Arza next door.
- 41 places
Geula and Mea Shearim
The haredi shopping streets of Geula and neighbouring Mea Shearim: sefarim, Judaica, clothing and household shops along Malchei Yisrael Street.
- 18 places
Malha
Best known for the Malha Mall, Teddy Stadium and the Pais Arena, with the Biblical Zoo nearby and older stone houses on the hillside around them.
- 2 places
Armon HaNatziv
Also called East Talpiot, on the ridge south of the Old City, with the views from the Haas Promenade.
- 3 places
Ramat Shlomo
A haredi neighbourhood in the north of the city, built from the 1990s.
- 2 places
Kiryat Moshe
A small religious-Zionist neighbourhood near the city entrance, home of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, between Givat Shaul and Beit HaKerem.