Meʾa Sheʿarim

district, Jerusalem

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In Jerusalem: City layout
Others include the Bukharan Quarter; Meʾa Sheʿarim, founded by Orthodox Jews from eastern and central Europe, with its scores of small synagogues and yeshivas; and Maḥane Yehuda, with its fruit and vegetable market, inhabited mainly by Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin. Residential quarters established between World Wars…
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