Jerusalem's hipsterati need their kubeh soup, preferably in a place where they can see and by seen by their young and trendy compatriots – and so they gather at Hakubiya 18. The restaurant serves a refined version of traditional homestyle Kurdish-Iraqi fare, sprinkled with French influences. By night, Hakubiya embraces its bar aspect, serving abundant liquor to crowds who show up for frequent live music.

A massive affair, the real live bouncers, something of a rarity in Jerusalem, ensure only the best-dressed and trendiest – or at least the most oozing in low-rent Israeli machismo – make it inside (theoretically, Rey is for partiers 24 and up). Once you get past the door, you'll be greeted with the sight of a massive, lit-up bar in the center of the room surrounded by throngs of Israelis dancing to electronica, modern Israeli rock and the international sounds of American pop.

The geopolitical fallout of the British government's nigh-schizophrenic policies in Palestine and the rest of the Middle East is still being felt, and hotly debated, to this very day, but the opening of Palestine to Europeans led to at least one undeniable triumph for modern civilization: the discovery and study of thousands upon thousands of antiquities from one of the world's most historically rich areas. The Rockefeller Museum in east Jerusalem stands as testament to that bounty.

Construction in the Russian Compound, between the current site of the Russian Orthodox Church and the main municipal police station, during the industrious latter half of the 19th century uncovered one of the most impressive artifacts of the successive bygone eras of the Holy City's storied past – a monolithic twelve meter marble pillar. The pillar, ensconced where it was discovered in a deep trench, dates back to the Second Temple period, another era of noted industry in Jerusalem.