People and places
The stories of Jerusalem.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Eitan Naveh
The machine gunner who single-handedly covered his comrades at Ammunition Hill, running exposed through the trenches of death, and whose death made him a model of the paratroopers' heroism in Jerusalem.
Alice May Carey
The idealist who believed all denominations and religions could be united in a spiritual center in Jerusalem. Her dream came true for a brief historical moment, leaving a mark of hope on the city's landscape.
Alice von Battenberg
The wife of a Greek prince and mother of Prince Philip, she sheltered Jews in her home during the Holocaust and became one of the Righteous Among the Nations, buried in Jerusalem.
Alphonse Ratisbonne
The Jewish convert, born into a wealthy banking family, who chose to devote his life to founding a church and an orphanage in Ein Kerem.
Erich Mendelsohn
The legendary architect who fled the Nazis, leaving behind the largest architectural practice in Europe. The genius who brought modernism to Palestine and designed some of the most magnificent buildings in the Middle East.
Boris Schatz
The man who came from the Bulgarian tsar's court to create a Hebrew culture from scratch, and fought abject poverty to establish "Bezalel." Dive into the story of a tenacious prophet of art who saw Jerusalem's sands as the creative capital of the East.
Bentwich
The British aristocracy that traded a life of comfort in London for building the legal and cultural institutions of the Land of Israel. A distinguished dynasty whose legacy reached into the fiercest disputes between the government and the Attorney General.
Gad Frumkin
The only Jewish judge on the Mandate Supreme Court, forced to navigate between strict British rule, the Arab population, and the Jewish national struggle. Step into the shoes of the jurist torn between loyalty to the law and the call of his people’s conscience.
Gunter Friedlaender
The pharmacist who fled Europe with a bold scientific vision and established a small pharmaceutical factory in Jerusalem. How did his modest workshop become an international pharmaceutical corporation that put Israel on the map?
Dr. d'Arbella
The boy born into a Chabad family in Russia who studied medicine in Egypt and became the physician to the Sultan of Zanzibar, then tried to establish a colony in the Land of Israel.
Daniel Kahneman
The boy who hid from the Gestapo in Paris and became a researcher who exposed the blind spots and irrationality of the human mind. The Israeli psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics and forever changed the way we make decisions.
Holman Hunt
The great British painter who was enchanted by the landscapes and people of the Land of Israel, and spent many years there with his close friend, immortalizing them on canvas.
Haile Selassie
The last Ethiopian emperor’s flight to Jerusalem is a fascinating chapter of history linking Addis Ababa and the Holy City.
Helena Kagan
The doctor who fought epidemics, ignorance, and dire poverty to save Jerusalem's children. She treated everyone without distinction of religion or nationality, and became the mother of modern medicine in the Land of Israel.
Princess Jeanne Merkus
One was a writer and lover of Moshe Dayan, while the other was called the Dutch Joan of Arc, and their lives ran parallel
Consul Finn
The third British consul in Jerusalem and one of the city's most prominent figures, he worked alongside his wife to protect its Jewish residents and provide them with continuous assistance.
Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
He ascended to the seat of the Chief Rabbinate as a courageous decisor who was unafraid to confront the challenges of modernity and statehood. The Rishon LeZion who bridged tradition and openness, and embodied a rooted, tolerant, unifying Sephardic leadership.
Rabbi David Ben Shimon
He refused to accept the overcrowding and poverty of the Old City, and dared to venture into the open wilderness. This is how the determined leader guided his community into open spaces and built the second neighborhood outside the walls with his own hands.
Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapira
One brilliant idea of his succeeded in bringing millions of learners around the globe together around precisely the same page. The young rabbi who invented the "Daf Yomi" and founded the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva changed the world of Torah study forever.
Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Behind the austere appearance of the leader of the ultra-Orthodox community lay a worldview that shaped historic struggles. The fascinating figure of Rabbi Sonnenfeld reveals the deep roots of the rift between ultra-Orthodoxy and Zionism.
Rabbi Jacob Sapir
Long before the age of airplanes and the internet, one daring scholar set out on dangerous journeys to the far corners of the earth. Jacob Sapir's fascinating writings rescued the secret customs of remote Jewish communities from oblivion.
Rabbi Isaiah Shapira
He grew up in a distinguished Hasidic court, yet chose to work the land with a hoe and bring heaven and earth together. This is the moving story of the "Pioneer Rebbe," who made the union of Torah and labor a passionate way of life.
Rabbi Israel Friedman Ben-Shalom
Imagine a Hasidic rebbe who wears both a shtreimel and a knitted kippah and guides enthusiastic members of Hashomer Hatzair: a brilliant historian who proved that it is possible to live between opposing worlds without giving up any part of one's identity.
Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan
His name appears on the signs of a university and educational institutions, and on street signs in cities everywhere - but what did he actually do? A journey into the life of the revolutionary rabbi who refused to choose between Torah and nationalism, and shaped the face of the state in the making.
Zehara Levitov
The first female fighter pilot, carrying within her the grief of losing her beloved Shmulik, who had fallen in battle; their story of love and loss became the defining myth of the 1948 generation.
Zelda
The mysterious ultra-Orthodox woman from Jerusalem who turned the world of Israeli poetry upside down with her enchanting candor. How did her quiet, profound poems become enduring classics and the tangible symbol of Holocaust Remembrance Day?
Zerach Barnett
The man who crossed the sea back and forth, sold all his property in London, and invested every penny in redeeming the land. The tireless pioneer who turned thorn fields into Meah Shearim and the "mother of the colonies," Petah Tikva.
Haviva Reik
The fighter who embarked on a suicide mission behind Nazi enemy lines for the sake of her tormented brothers and sisters. She parachuted into the unknown in Slovakia, organized the uprising, and fought bravely until she fell.
The Holiday of Love
The day Israelite girls danced in the vineyards was born not of sweet romance, but of trauma, civil war, and division. The shocking historical truth about the Hebrew holiday that turned from a day of national reconciliation into a festival of love.
Hemda Ben-Yehuda
The woman behind the reviver of the Hebrew language, she was a brilliant writer and the first Hebrew fashion journalist. With wit and grace, she coined new words and led a genuine cultural revolution.
Judith Montefiore
The daughter of a wealthy aristocratic family who chose arduous journeys, illness, and danger on the roads of the ancient East. Alongside her husband Moses, she crisscrossed the Land of Israel and invested her fortune in building the Jewish community.
Yehoshua Yellin
The daring young Jerusalemite who broke beyond the Old City walls, bought land in Motza, and established a pioneering farm there. The man who fought for the dignity of the Hebrew language and paved the way for the daring move beyond the walls.
Yoel Moshe Salomon
The learned scholar who refused to stay behind Jerusalem's walls and went to see whether birds sang above the Yarkon marshes. The entrepreneur, printer, and visionary who dared to buy the lands of Umm Labes and lay the foundation for Petah Tikva.
Yohanan Ratner
The architect who designed the National Institutions building and was a brilliant officer and a candidate for chief of staff, and the poet Rachel’s secret and adored lover.
Joseph Dhu Nuwas
In the heart of the Arabian Peninsula, centuries before Islam, a warrior king with ornate sidelocks on his cheeks ruled. The forgotten story of Yemen's powerful Jewish kingdom and the daring king who led it.
Yosef Rivlin
'Rabbi Yoshe, the neighborhood builder,' who feared neither wild animals, robbers, nor lonely nights outside Jerusalem's walls. The messianic leader who founded 16 new neighborhoods and forever changed the map of the eternal city.
Yechiel Michel Steinberg
The snowstorm that destroyed Jerusalem's rooftops led to an architectural revolution brought straight from the Templer builders. The story of a practical man who learned the secrets of European construction and changed the skyline of the Land of Israel forever.
Yelizaveta Feodorovna
A Russian princess murdered by the Bolsheviks, whose last wish brought her to her eternal rest on the slopes of Jerusalem's Mount of Olives.
Leah Abushdid
She was called "the fairest of women" and rebuffed Itamar Ben-Avi's desperate courtship until he threatened to end his life, in a tempestuous romance torn between ancient tradition and a new language of love.
Leah Goldberg
She called herself "not a beautiful woman" and suffered through unrequited, unfulfilled loves, yet transformed that tormenting loneliness into the heights of Hebrew poetry.
Leah Tannenbaum
The young woman from the ultra-Orthodox world who captured the hearts of the region's most powerful Muslim leaders. Her tumultuous life story moved between forbidden loves, centers of power, and extraordinary political complexity.
Melania Karlovna
The Christian noblewoman who crossed every social boundary when she chose to marry the poet Shaul Tchernichovsky.
Maria Rosetta Shapira (Miriam Harry)
The daughter of Moses Wilhelm Shapira, she wrote under the pen name Miriam Harry and described her childhood in the Old City of Jerusalem in her work.
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
The Jerusalem antiquities dealer who stirred the world with his discoveries and left behind an eternal mystery: was his greatest forgery actually genuine?
Nissim Gini
The ten-year-old boy who served as a messenger between battle positions in the besieged Jewish Quarter, and became the youngest fallen soldier in the history of the Israel Defense Forces.
Netiva Ben-Yehuda
The clear-voiced fighter who brought the language of the Palmach into the heart of Israeli culture. With no barriers and no filters, she fought for the country's independence and for the spoken language.
Selma Lagerlöf
The renowned Swedish author of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, whose journeys and special connections with the Land of Israel deeply influenced her.
Konrad Schick
From a humble cuckoo-clock maker in Germany to a leading architect and archaeologist who transformed the appearance of Jerusalem beyond its walls.
Rabbi Benjamin (Yehoshua Radler-Feldman)
A halakhic scholar and passionate writer who was ahead of his time in advocating equal rights for women, vegetarianism, and comprehensive peace with our neighbors. A distinctive Zionist thinker who refused to conform to any political mold and remained true to the dictates of his conscience.
Robert the Bruce
The legendary Scottish king who fought the English all his life. His companions removed his heart and carried it on a long journey to be buried in Jerusalem.
Rachel the Poet
She arrived in the country as a romantic tourist on her way to Paris, but fell desperately in love with it and became a pioneer who chose words and fields, and went on to become a poet and a national myth.
Rachel Habashush
The daring Irgun fighter who never hesitated to lead complex and dangerous operations. With rare courage and composure, she repeatedly evaded British intelligence in pursuit of the cause.
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
The pioneer who plowed the land, founded a farm school for women, and inspired the masses. Jerusalem’s streets welcomed her with admiration as she went on to become an exceptional president’s wife.
S.Y. Agnon
Long before he became a Nobel laureate whose name is emblazoned on every street corner, his heart was broken by a secret, unfulfilled love for a daughter of the wealthy Shlush family.
Shulamit Kishik Cohen
The Israeli spy who operated in the heart of Beirut, embedded in Lebanese government circles, saved thousands of Jews, and escaped the gallows in a historic prisoner exchange.
Shota Rustaveli
Georgia's national poet, who admired Queen Tamar and found refuge and his final resting place at the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.
66 place links in this collection
- Tomb of Nissim Gini, Military Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Tomb of Ibn Gabirol Street, Rehavia neighborhood, Jerusalem
- Shulamit Square at the intersection of Gelber and Abel Pann, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan, Sanhedria Cemetery, Bar-Ilan Boulevard, Jerusalem
- Mahane Israel neighborhood, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapira, Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Yaakov Sapir, Old Yishuv Section, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Yeshayahu Shapira, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Tomb of Yisrael Bak, Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Grave of Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem
- Jewish Agency House, Jerusalem
- Rachel House, 64 HaNevi'im Street, Jerusalem
- Abushdid House, 8 HaHavazelet Street, Jerusalem
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda House, Ethiopia Lane, Jerusalem
- Ben-Yehuda House, 28 Ein Gedi Street, Jerusalem
- 16 Alfasi Street, Rehavia, Jerusalem
- HaNevi'im Street 64, Jerusalem
- Agnon House, 16 Klausner Street, Jerusalem
- Schatz House, 3 Bezalel Street, Jerusalem
- Old Bezalel House, 12 Shmuel HaNagid Street, Jerusalem
- Gad Frumkin House (Havazelet House), 22 Ibn Ezra Street, Jerusalem
- Grave of Zerah Barnett, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Bentwich Family Cemetery on Mount Scopus
- Yellin House (Heritage Site), Motza, Jerusalem
- Grave of Yehoshua Yellin, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Tomb of Yosef Rivlin, Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Grave of Yoel Moshe Salomon, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Mass grave of the Yishuv Paratroopers, Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, Herzl Boulevard, Jerusalem
- Grave of Hemda Ben-Yehuda, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Montefiore Windmill, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem
- 64 HaNevi'im St., Jerusalem
- Villa Leah (Avkarius House): a recognized historic building in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, at 6 Gaza St. / 6 Ben Maimon Blvd.
- "Temple of the Three Religions" on Mount Ora
- Netiva Ben-Yehuda House, 18 Palmach Street, Jerusalem
- Alharizi Street 17, Jerusalem
- Schocken Library (designed by Erich Mendelsohn), 6 Balfour Street, Jerusalem
- Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus (designed by Erich Mendelsohn), Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
- Grave of Zelda Schneersohn-Mishkovsky, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
- Tomb of Yehiel Mikhel Steinberg, Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Church of Mary Magdalene – Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Ratisbonne Monastery – 26 Shmuel HaNagid Street, Jerusalem
- Sisters of Zion Convent – HaOren Street, Ein Karem, Jerusalem
- Villa Brown Hotel – 54 HaNevi'im Street, Jerusalem
- Villa Leah – 6 Ben Maimon Blvd., Jerusalem
- Ethiopian Church – Ethiopia St., Jerusalem
- The bench at Mar Elias Monastery – Hebron Road, Jerusalem
- Kerem Avraham Compound – 24 Ovadia Street, Jerusalem
- Agron House – 6 Gershon Agron Street at the corner of King George Street, Jerusalem
- Church of Mary Magdalene – Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
- Greek Patriarch's House - opposite San Simon Monastery, Ma'ale Ze'ev Street, Katamon neighborhood, Jerusalem
- Ticho House – 10 HaRav Agan Street, Jerusalem
- Ticho House – 10 HaRav Agan Street, Jerusalem
- American Colony Hotel – 1 Louis Vincent Street, Jerusalem
- Tabor House – 58 HaNevi'im St., Jerusalem
- Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion
- St. Andrew's Church (the Scottish Church) – 1 David Remez St., Jerusalem
- Monastery of the Cross – Valley of the Cross, Jerusalem
- The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
- Tell al-Ful
- Jerusalem
- Valley of the Cross Airstrip, Jerusalem
- Ammunition Hill, Jerusalem
- Rabbi Binyamin's House, 6 Rabbi Binyamin St., Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem
- Rex Cinema, corner of Shlomzion HaMalka Street and Hillel Street, Jerusalem
- Square at the intersection of Shachrai and Haklai streets, Beit VeGan, Jerusalem