One day not long ago I was sitting in one of my hub cafes in the Old City of Jerusalem. This is a place I visit often, as part of my work. Most times, luckily, I don’t even have time to sit here.
But on this occasion I did. The tourist I was guiding was visiting the Western Wall Tunnel, in a group guided by the Tunnels own guides. This gave me time to walk the streets alone, take some photos, but most of all to sit in my cafe.
The reason I love sitting there is that to me this street and this point is typical of the Old City and of Jerusalem. To me Jerusalem is not, never has been, and never will be, what is shown on the media throughout the world. Like with so many other things that the media reports about [Read more...]
Jerusalem throughout its history was a walled city. Something that started changing, when the first housing project, Mishkenot Ha’Shaananim, was built by the British Jewish philanthropist
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