Jerusalem in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

Jerusalem in the Footprint Focus Guides, which are targeted at cities, regions & countries worldwide that have no, or very limited, coverage from other publishers. Widely recognised for their reliability & independent writing style, Footprint Focus guides all have the same layout. Smaller than their sister Handbooks, the Focus guides are intended to streamline the information contained so that you have more of what you need, without losing Footprint ...

Yotam Ottolenghi, well known for his excellent recipes which add a twist of adventure to ordinary ingredients, returns to his native Jerusalem to produce with his friend Sami Tamimi a lovely & interesting cookery book. Given the background of their families, Yotan grew up the Jewish west part of the city while Sami was a child in Muslim east Jerusalem, the books draws on both culinary cultures. As you’d expect chicken soup with knaidlach or latkes are there, but so is baba ghanoush & other Middle Eastern specialities. Like in most Ottolenghi recipes, lists of ingredients are often long but the rewards are well worth the effort. The book is illustrated with nice, not-too-intimidating photos of the dishes & of food-related scenes in the city itself. ...

Jerusalem on a street plan from the locally based Carta, prominently highlighting historical locations & important institutions, plus separate enlargements of the central districts & of the Old Town, indexes of streets & suburbs/neighbourhoods, & lists of sights & various institutions. The main plan covers the city with its outer districts, with insets showing the settlements of Homat Shmuel (Har Homa) & East Pisgat Ze’ev. Coverage

Includes:: Mount Herzl & Yad Vashem. Main traffic arteries are highlighted, one way streets or pedestrianized areas are marked, & the plan also shows locations of petrol stations. The route of the light railway line is shown with stops. Various institutions & places of interest are highlighted & named, many shown by small drawings. Next to the main plan is an enlargement showing in greater detail Jerusalem’s central districts between the Old City & the institutions around the Knesset, Israel Museum & the Hebrew University. On the reverse is large, very clear plan of the Old City, a street index, plus a list of various sites & institutions including suburbs & neighbourhoods, synagogues & other places of worship, museums & cultural centres, cemeteries, etc. Also provided is a small map showing the Jerusalem municipal area. All place names are in the Latin alphabet only.

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Waterproof & tear-resistant map from ITMB combining an indexed street plan of Jerusalem with a more detailed enlargement of its Old City, plus on the reverse a road map at 1:225, 000 covering the Holy Land: northern Israel & the Palestinian Territories. On both the plans & the road map all place names are shown only in Latin alphabet. Within Jerusalem’s Old City sites of religious importance are given their alternative names. On one side is coverage of Jerusalem. The city with its outer districts is shown on an indexed plan at 1:10, 000. On the eastern side of the Old City the plan

Includes:: the Mount of Olives & Mount Scopus; in the west it extends beyond the government district & the museum/university quarter but does not include Yad Vashem or Mount Herzl. Main traffic routes are highlighted & locations of petrol stations & car parks are marked. The Jerusalem light rail route is shown with stops. The plan highlights numerous places of interest & facilities, including selected hotels, embassies, museums & other cultural or educational institutions, places of worship, Israeli governmental buildings, etc. Accompanying the main plan are three additional panels: a large, very clear enlargement at 1:4, 000 showing the Old City in much greater detail, including the Stations of the Cross on Via Dolorosa; a road map of the city’s environs including Bethlehem & Jericho, indicating the course of the Separation Barrier at the time of the map’s publication in 2014; plus a diagram of the existing & proposed light rail lines within the whole of Israel. The reverse side is covered by an indexed road map of most of Israel at 1:225, 000, extending south to Rahat & the southern boundary of the West Bank (i.e. along the Dead Sea Masada & Ein Bokek are not included). The map has altitude colouring to show the topography, including the depression along the Jordan & the Dead Sea. National parks & other protected areas are marked. Road network indicates driving distances on main & selected secondary routes. Names of road junctions are not included. Railway lines marked, with a separate diagram of the network, & local airports are also shown. Towns with tourist accommodation are highlighted & symbols mark various other places of interest including campsites & youth hostels, archaeological sites, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 10’. The map gives no indication which areas are now under the direct rule by the Palestinian authorities & the Separation Barrier is not marked.

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In Jerusalem`s Old City a young priest & a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon`s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; & in Postwar Japan a young protege watches his master`s corpse burn, with bitter thoughts blazing in his mind. Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love & Other Obsessions collects thirteen eclectic works of dark fiction, taking the reader from Los Angeles to the eastern townships of Quebec, & from Tokyo to Jerusalem. Ortega-Medina`s characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, & religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, & often possessed of a dark humour, this major debut explores the imperfections of life & the unpredictability of death. ...

Jerusalem & North Israel on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant map combining a street plan of Jerusalem with an enlargement of the Old City, plus on the reverse a road map of Israel with the Negev Desert. On one side is coverage of Jerusalem: the city with its outer districts is shown on an indexed plan at 1:10, 000. On the eastern side of the Old City the plan

Includes:: the Mount of Olives & Mount Scopus, but in the west does not cover Yad Vashem or Mount Herzl. Main traffic routes are highlighted & locations of petrol stations & car parks are marked. The Jerusalem light rail route is shown with stops. The plan highlights numerous places of interest & facilities, including selected hotels, embassies, museums & other cultural or educational institutions, places of worship, Israeli governmental buildings, etc. Accompanying the main plan is a large, very clear enlargement at 1:4, 000 showing the Old City in greater detail, including the Stations of the Cross on Via Dolorosa. Also provided is a diagram of the existing & proposed light rail lines, plus a road map of the city

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