Jewish Quarter Travel Guide

For the article on Jewish Quarters throughout the Jewish diaspora, see Jewish Quarter (diaspora)
The Jewish Quarter (הרובע היהודי, HaRova HaYehudi or the Rova) is one of the four traditional quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. It lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, along the Armenian Quarter on the west, up to the Cardo in the north and extends to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount in the east.
The quarter has had a rich history, with a nearly continual Jewish presence since the eighth century B.C.E. In 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War, its population of about 2,000 Jews was besieged, and forced to leave en masse. The Israeli representative to the United Nations claimed in 1968 in a letter to the United Nation Security Council that Jordanian Colonel Abdullah el-Tal, one-time commandant of the Arab Legion, had described the destruction of the Jewish Quarter in his memoirs (Cairo, 1959) with the words:
The quarter remained under Jordanian rule until its capture by Israeli paratroops during the Six-Day War of 1967. During the 1960s American town planners, together with the Jordanian authorities, had planned that the quarter be transformed into a park. During the nineteen year Arab administration, a third of the Jewish Quarter's buildings had been demolished by the Jordanians. All but one of the thirty-five Jewish houses of worship that graced the Old City were wantonly destroyed. The synagogues were razed or pillaged and stripped and their interiors and used as hen-houses or stables. (...) more....

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