Ben Yehuda Street
מדרחוב בן יהודה
A pedestrian street in the city centre of the New City, connected to Jaffa Road and Zion Square. Cafés, souvenir shops and street performers gather here.
Ben Yehuda Street is named after Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the revivalist of modern Hebrew. Together with Jaffa Road and Zion Square, it forms the 'downtown triangle', the liveliest pedestrian area in the New City of Jerusalem. Along the street are cafés, dessert shops, Jewish gift shops and silver shops, and there is street music in the evenings. From Friday afternoon until nightfall on Saturday is the Sabbath, and most shops close. The area becomes lively again on Saturday night after the Sabbath ends. The street can be reached by light rail, from a stop near Zion Square.
Opening hours
All day (shops approx. 10:00–23:00)
Nearby sights
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Mahane Yehuda Market
- Jaffa Gate & Ramparts Walk
- Tower of David Museum
- Yemin Moshe & Montefiore Windmill
- Garden Tomb
- Damascus Gate
- Armenian Quarter & Cathedral of St. James