Ramat Rahel: kibbutz on the road to Bethlehem. Entered by way of Talpiot Quarter. This settlement, placed as it was on the pre-1967 border with Jordan, made a target for trigger-happy Arab troops. During the 1948 war, it was alternately lost and re-occupied by Israelis. There is a hotel, a swimming pool (open all year round), tennis courts, and a restaurant. There is an archaeological site which includes ruins of an Israelite fort and a Byzantine church.
(Bus No. 7)

Ramparts Walk: There can hardly be a better way to view the city than from the ancient walkway around the Old City. Exit and entry points are located at Lions' Gate, Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.-Thurs. Fri. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Entrance fee.
(Bus Nos. 3, 13, 19, 20, 30)

Rockefeller Museum: near corner of Suleiman St. and Jericho Rd. The Israel Antiquities Authority has its offices here. Originally called the Palestine Archaeological Museum, it was designed by English architect Austin Harrison the octagonal tower rises over a central courtyard to which the halls and library are connected. Exhibits include the prehistoric Carmel Man, reconstruction of a Middle Bronze Age tomb, Crusader lintels from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and a unique selection of 8th-century CE architectural decorative fragments from Hisham's Palace, and coins. There is also a library with thousands of texts on the Holy Land's history, prehistory, geology and geography. Entrance fee. Open: Sun.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. T
(Walk No. 3 or Bus Nos. l, 99)

Russian Compound: off Jaffa Road, near the Main Post Office. Bought by Czar Alexander II and built up in the 1860s, it was in its time a busy centre for Russian pilgrims to Jerusalem in the 1920s it was the biggest hotel around. See the exterior of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity with its green-domed towers (a fairyland castle floodlit at night). Notice the large unfinished Herodian column across the road from the Cathedral. The Israel government has purchased the compound, which today houses police, law and other administration offices.
(Bus Nos. 3, 5,11,13, 15,18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 29, 38, 40)