Spotlight: Restaurants |
Focaccia Bar
Focaccia Bar is a spacious, family-friendly restaurant built around a patioed garden, one corner of which is occupied by a tabun oven which churns out the restaurant's namesake focaccia that comes hot with every meal with a choice of dips and toppings. If you don't fill up on bread, Focaccia offers a decidedly non-kosher international fusion menu, including pizzas, burgers, seafood, stir-fries and more. Focaccia Bar is also probably one of the only places in Jerusalem that serves its lemonade pink.
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Spotlight: Nightlife |
Hataklit
The digital revolution has forced itself on music lovers, but as long as there are people out there like the dudes running Hataklit ('The Record'), the hi-fi lo-tech analog age lives on. Salute vinyl's tenacity with a draft chetzi at this cozy pub devoted to the music of yesteryear, founded by three young men working in various capacities in the local music industry who apparently felt the need for a space they could plaster with their massive record collections. There's a full bar and cocktail menu, and DJs or live music nightly.
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Spotlight: Museums |
The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum
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.
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Spotlight: Sites and Landmarks |
Jewish Quarter
The Jewish Quarter is the second-smallest of the four quarters, and simultaneously its oldest and newest; while this section of Jerusalem has been home to a Jewish population since antiquity, save for the comparatively brief period in which Jews were expelled from the city by Roman authorities, the quarter's architecture dates almost entirely to the late 1960s and early 1970s. The recapture from Jordan in 1967 provided an unprecedented archaeological opportunity; before reconstruction commenced, archaeologists carved deep into the earth and excavated incredible remnants of Jerusalem's ancient history.
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