Street of the Prophets

• At the very bottom of King George (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/4-on-king-george.html ) on the northwest corner of the ancient route to Jaffa (you can cross this street diagonally) opposite the venerable Maayan Shtube (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/retail.html ) clothing store (mentioned in Amos Oz's memoir), a building plaque proudly proclaims its Mandatory (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/palmanda.htm) pedigree. Up the Jaffa Road (Rehov Yafo) is an old Turkish guardpost (the building with two small lionsout front), now the police Lost and Found, and beyond that the Mahane Yehuda market ( http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/abundance.html ). In the other direction, the street ends at the Jaffa Gate (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-walls.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/lights-out.html
• The 4 ( http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/number-4-bus.html ) crosses Yafo. The large building looming to the weston the next corner is the only hospital left in downtown Jerusalem, Bikur Kholim.
• The next cross street, Neviim (http://www.sustainable-jerusalem.org/jerusaleme/envir35.html and http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/english/sys/tour/vir_tour/show/show_tour.asp?tour_id=100), is worth its own tour. Here Christian groups from Europe competed with each other to build the most impressive institutions in Jerusalem toward the end of the Ottoman rule. The Street of the Prophets runs from the Anglican School, past the Ethiopean church) to the property of the Russian Orthodox Church and beyond to the gates of the Old City.
• But the 4 continues straight ahead. Mind your map. King George has changed to Nathan Strauss, named for an American philanthropist who provided paseurized milk to poor American children and his name to the city of Netanya.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox