Yoel Moshe Salomon

• Yoel Moshe Salomon is the subject of a catchy ballad and the name of a pedestrian street running from Kikar Tsiohn southward. (Cars do drive on that first block.) If you are walking away from the square, a left turn, anywhere, takes you into the kind of paths and byways tourists brag about finding (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/lanes.html ).
• Built at the end of the 1800s, this neighborhood's streets are too narrow for carriages, let alone cars. Even donkeys would have trouble with the stairs leading from one alley to another. Stroll through another age, even the sounds of modernity blocked by stone walls, until a twist and turn put you on Yafo street, which has existed and adapted for as many thousands of years as there have been Jerusalem in the hills and Yafo on the coast.
• http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=habaladahalyoelmoshesalomon has a song about Yoel Moshe Salomon.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox