Jerusalem’s New Gate gets ‘new’ look, but lacks foot traffic Small, ancient portal into Old City was renovated for greater tourism impact, but the work all but destroyed merchants’ businesses ...

One of Jerusalem’s most beautiful gates, built in 1537 under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Damascus Gate, today. 2. ... Jaffa Gate with the Tower of David on the background, 1900.

JERUSALEM —For centuries, the Damascus Gate has stood as the portal to the Old City of Jerusalem, opening onto a packed bazaar of souvenir shops, teahouses and falafel joints — and the holiest ...

Flashes of History in Jerusalem. Outdoor Display Traces City's Past. October 26, 2008. By Linda Gradstein Linda Gradstein ...

Israel the Beautiful: See the light I normally shun photographing under a high sun, but here was a dazzling play of light, pattern and texture. By YEHOSHUA HALEVI JUNE 5, 2014 14:06 ...

I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Jerusalem, specifically right underneath the New Gate. This is one of the eight gates of the Old City wall. It provides direct access to the Christian Quarter, one of the ...

Poet, critic, and biographer as well, Mrs. Spark’s new novel, THE MANDELBAUM GATE, which Knopf will publish this month, is an ambitious study of the divided city of Jerusalem as a symbol of ...

The small, black stone seal is “one of the most beautiful ever discovered in excavations in ancient Jerusalem, and is executed at the highest artistic level,” Dr. Yuval Baruch and Navot Rom ...