Jerusalem Tours:
Visit Jerusalem, the Modern City
Jerusalem tours include far more than the Old City and the many Jerusalem holy sites.
It's understandable that when you tour Jerusalem, you'll start with them but don’t stop there! When you visit Jerusalem, there is also a vibrant, modern city full of treasures to discover.
The Calatrava Bridge of Strings at the city entrance.
Stroll down Ben Yehuda Street on a Saturday night. Enjoy the street performers at the Arlov Mamilla Mall. Search out all the amazing trompe l'oeuil murals that decorate the city. Partake of Jerusalem entertainment - festivals and fairs of every kind. Explore our great parks. And then ...
Visit Jerusalem the cultural capital: There are over 60 Jerusalem museums, that run the gamut from world-class archaeological exhibits to renown modern art collections. You won't want to miss the Israel Museum and its Dead Sea scrolls, nor Yad Vashem, Israel’s holocaust museum, set at the edge of the Jerusalem Forest.
Here are some more sites you might want to include when you visit Jerusalem:- The Calatrava Bridge of Strings
- The Chagall Windows at Hadassah Hospital - Ein Karem
- The Israeli Supreme Court
- The Israeli parliament building, the Knesset, which is also home to more famous Chagall art work
- Hebrew University's Mt. Scopus campus
- The Jerusalem monument to the victims of the World Trade Center
- The Jerusalem Zoo, with its stunning garden of sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle
- Machane Yehuda, Jerusalem's open air market and its picturesque, historical neighborhoods, including Nahlaot
- Yemin Moshe, the first neighborhood built outside the Old City walls
- The Jerusalem Rose Garden
- Heichal Shlomo, the Great Synagogue
- Mount Herzl, the park surrounding the grave of Theodore Herzl, and the Herzl Museum
- The Menachem Begin Heritage Center, an educational memorial to the Nobel Prize winner and former Israeli Prime Minister
Of course, this is just a partial list. Turn any corner in Jerusalem and you're bound to discover something else wonderful.
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