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The Jewish Quarter is one of the four quarters of Jerusalem’s Old City, rebuilt after Israeli forces took the area in the 1967 Six Day War. Discussed here as part of Jerusalem in the First Temple Period, where Iron Age remains sit beneath the present streets.

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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

Roman and Byzantine Jerusalem

A field-trip day tracing the Roman and Byzantine layers of Jerusalem: Zedekiah's Cave by the Damascus Gate, the arches at Alexander Nevsky, the Byzantine corners of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardo, and the ruins of the Nea Church.

Dec 2013 · 3 minute read
Zedekiah's Cave, Jerusalem Damascus Gate, Jerusalem Roman or Byzantine arch in the Alexander Nevsky Church, Jerusalem Arches of Monomachos together with later crusader arches in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The upper Byzantine cardo, Jerusalem Apse of the Nea Church
Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue (part of the 'Four Sephardi Synagogues' complex)
Centre · Jerusalem

The Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem

A walk through the modern history of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, visiting the Ramban, the Four Sephardi Synagogues, Tiferet Yisrael, the Karaite Centre and the Hurva, and closing at the memorial for those who fell in 1948.

Nov 2013 · 4 minute read
Letter from the Ramban outside the Ramban Synagogue Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue (part of the 'Four Sephardi Synagogues' complex) 13th century Karaite Torah scroll The 'Hurva' Synagogue View from the top of the 'Hurva' Synagogue View over the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, Jerusalem. Independence War Memorial of the Jewish Quarter
Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem
Centre · Jerusalem

Yad Vashem and Mt Herzl

A sombre day at Yad Vashem and the Holocaust History Museum, the surrounding memorials including the Valley of the Communities and the Children's Memorial, before heading up the hill to Mt Herzl cemetery and the Herzl Museum.

Nov 2013 · 3 minute read
Schindlers' tree in the Avenue of the RIghteous of the Nations, Yad Vashem Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem Tomb of Yitzchak & Leah Rabin, Mt Herzl Reliving the Basel Zionist Congress at the Herzl Museum
The original Tel Aviv Municipality Building, Bialik Square
Centre · Tel Aviv

Old Tel Aviv

Oct 2013 · 5 minute read
American Colony, Tel Aviv Suzan Dellal Centre, Neve Tzedek Tel Aviv model inside the Shalom Tower Eclectic architecture in Tel Aviv Independence Hall The original Tel Aviv Municipality Building, Bialik Square Grave of Ahad Haam, Trumpeldor Cemetery
Crusader capital in the Last Supper Room (Cenacle)
Centre · Jerusalem

Crusader Jerusalem

A walk through the Old City focused on the Crusader century: the Cenacle on Mount Zion, the Nea Church, the German Knights' hospice, the Crusader market, the Church of the Redeemer and the Holy Sepulchre.

Jul 2013 · 5 minute read
Crusader capital in the Last Supper Room (Cenacle) Ruins of the Crusader Nea Church St Mary’s Hospice of the German Knights View over the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem The inimitable Bilal Abu Khalaf dons his traditional garb Crusader cloisters in the Church of the Redeemer Inside the cistern under the Coptic Church of St Helen Church of the Holy Sepulchre: site marking the creation of the world
Excavations of the outer western (the Kotel) and southern walls of the Second Temple Mount
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the Second Temple period

A field trip through Jerusalem's Second Temple period sites: the City of David, the Tyropoeon valley drainage channel, the Davidson Centre, the Burnt House, the Wohl Museum of Archaeology, and the excavations beneath the Western and southern walls of the Temple Mount.

Jun 2013 · 5 minute read
Walking up the Roman drainage channel in the Tyropoeon valley Capital possibly from the second temple The Burnt House of the Katros family, Jerusalem The oldest mosaic in Israel in the Wohl Museum of Archaelogy, Jerusalem Mikve from the second temple period in the western wall excavations Herodian street from the second temple period
"The Broad Wall": remains of Hezekiah's 7 meter wide northern defensive wall in Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the First Temple Period

Our first field-trip to Jerusalem, focusing on the First Temple period: a panorama from the Haas Promenade, the archaeology of the City of David, Hezekiah's Broad Wall and the Israelite gate tower, and the Ariel Centre's model of the early city.

Feb 2013 · 4 minute read
View north over Jerusalem from the Haas Promenade View from the top of the City of David over South and East Jerusalem Inside the water tunnels in the City of David "The Broad Wall": remains of Hezekiah's 7 meter wide northern defensive wall in Jerusalem Remains of the gate tower from Hezekiah's wall around Jerusalem Model of Jerusalem in First Temple times at the Ariel Center
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