Changes

Zigmund's (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.co.il/2009/03/tiffany-lampshade.html ) is now a tiny bar and tobacco shop. No delicious soup any more.

The meat restaurant up the street from it lasted less than a year. The bagel sandwich shop across Aza is now a an art store. Lekhem Shel Tomer, just beyond the bus stop, sells excellent bread and provides a small cafe where I have seen folks eating pastries and sandwiches. The coffee shop down the street is now a bar, flanked today by a pizzaria with a cafe next to it, around the corner on Mitudella. Strangely the sushi restaurant on the other side of Azqa has stayed in business several years.

If you want hardware (right side going up Aza) or books (left side going up Aza) you are still in luck.

Copyright 2015 Jane S. Fox

Book Mark

• Derekh Beit Lekhem (Bethlehem Road) is one of the three streets marking the original boundaries of HaMoshavah Ha Germanit (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/german-colony.html http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/emek-refaim.html http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/iccy.html ).
• It continues into Baka, where streets are named after Bible personages. The feel is quite different from in the Moshava, and I have been trying to figure out why. The buildings have a similar 1930's look -- faceted stone, two stories. Here is a buture shop, on the corner is a greengrocer. Perhaps it is the upholstered chairs on the sidewalk outside a coffee shop near Ester HaMalkah Street. Perhaps that the coffee shop is not part of a chain.
• It is a pleasant and interesting to walk along a street less frequented by tourists. When you get to Yehuda Street, you can turn right to get back to Emek Refaim or left to go to the Tayellet (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/sherover-promenade.html and http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/haas-and-goldman-promenades.html ).
• Check http://www3.emap.co.il/eng_index.asp or your Carta street map. BTW, Carta makes a spiral-bound version. This avoids unfulding and refolding. If you don't find it confusing to jump from page to page, it is handy.
• At Book Mark, a crowded used-book store on Ester HaMalkah, I found the cartoon books I wanted.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox

Book Stores

• Wherever you are in Jerusalem, you'll easily find a bookstore. Except for the chains and the ones in upscale malls, they all seem to carry used books.
• For Judaica and related subjects, try the shop on Keren Kayemet LeYisrael ("Kakal") across from the Gymnasia (hard G). Kuzari (http://www.khazaria.com/korobkin.html ) walk, the nearest Yehuda HaLevi gets to having a street named for him among the writers of the Golden Age (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/jerusalem-street-poetry.html ) , is just to the west.
• But probably you are looking for Engllish books, maybe something to read on an airplane. Like Sefer V'Sefel (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/yabetz.html ), the large Dani Books store on Even Yisrael (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/even-yisrael.html ), the pedestrian street between Yafo and Agrippas just west of King George, has a wide selection of used English-language books from philosophy and science through history and biography to mysteries and science fiction. In both stores, whoever is by the cash register knows the merchandise.
• In fact, you'll see a "new and used" sign in many book store windows. Outside book shops on King George from where it starts at the end of Keren HaYesod and until Hillel, are tables and boxes of used books, many in English. On Aza and other less central streets you'll also see the bargain books out by the sidewalk.
• For directions see http://www2.emap.co.il/eng_index.asp , now offering satellite views as well as abstract maps.
• Don't wait for the airport. Explore. Enjoy.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox

Yabetz

• Yabetz is a pedestrian shopping alley running from Derekh Yafo to Ben Hillel. (Its continuation to Histadrut Street has nothing of interest but a public phone.) From Ben Hillel (almost at King GeorgeV – HaMelekh George) go down the steps past the optician. (What is a British king doing on Jerusalem street signs? More on that later.)
• On the right is a small shop with an abundance of dried fruit and nuts. All along both sides of the street are tiny stores packed with interesting clothing for men and women. (See http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/daughter-of-salwar-kameez.html ) Colorful shirts, skirts, tunics, and dresses – mainly cotton– are offbeat and come in cryptic sizes. Bat Ayin has a store here, as well as another in the Mahaneh Yehuda shouk (see http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/unexpected-february-entertainment.html ).
• About halfway along, on the right, is a garden and patio store. For a city with few private homes, Jerusalem has a lot of garden stores. You see the result on balconies.
• Almost at Yafo St.,on the left are the stairs leading up to Sefer v’Sefel. The sign advertises a coffee shop. There is no coffee shop, but there is an extensive used book store. From science fiction to Judaica through paperback classics, Sefer v’Sefel has a large collection.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox