USEFUL ADDRESSES AND NUMBERS      BACK


Tourist Information Office: 17 Rehov Yafo, tel.(02)258844, Fax:(02)249430. Open Sun. - Thurs. 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Fri. to 1.30 p.m.

Jaffa Gate (Old City) - Tel. (02)280382, 280457.

Christian Information Centre: Jaffa Gate, tel.(02)257456, 754811. P.O.B. 1018.

Postal Services: the main post office at 23 Rehov Yafo is open daily between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Fridays, until noon closed on Saturdays. There is a 24-hour telegram service. (see Postal Information).

Magen David Adom (first aid): tel. 101. (In addition to running the ambulance service, they arrange emergency home calls from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. by doctors at fixed rates.)

Police: tel. 100.

Fire Brigade: tel. 102.


WORSHIP SYNAGOGUES

Baba Tama Synagogue - Bukharan Quarter.
Centre for Conservative Judaism - Agron St.
Emeth Ve'emuna - 1 Rehov Hanarkis (Conservative).
Habad Synagogue - Rehov Habad, Jewish Quarter, Old City.
Har-El Synagogue - 16 Rehov Shmuel Hanagid (Reform Progressive).
Hebrew Union College Synagogue - 13 King David St. (Reform).
Hechal Shlomo Great Synagogue - 58 King George St.
Issa Bracha - 31 Rehov Jabotinsky, Talbieh (Sephardi and Ashkenazi).
Italian Synagogue - 24 Rehov Hillel.
Midrash Porat Yosef Synagogue - Rehov Geula.
Mt. Zion Synagogue - Mt. Zion (Ashkenazi and Sephardi).
Rehavia - 22 Rehov Ussishkin (Ashkenazi).
Western Wall - Services are held whenever a minyan is formed, which is quite often. Always open. Many go to the Wall for Shabbat prayers.
Yeshurun Central Synagogue - 44 King George St. (Ashkenazi).


CHURCHES

Roman Catholic:
Note: There is a daily procession at the Holy Sepulchre at 4 p.m. and from the First Station along the Via Dolorosa on Friday at 3 p.m. Gethsemane Holy Hour is marked the first Thursday of each month at 4 p.m. in winter. During daylight saving time, services are one hour later.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Old City.
Chapel of Flagellation - Via Dolorosa, Old City.
Church of St. Stephen - Nablus Rd.
Church of St. Anne - Lions' Gate.
Church of the Visitation - (Franciscan) Ein Karem.
Church of St. John the Baptist - (Franciscan) Ein Karem. Dormition
Abbey - (Benedictine) Mt. Zion.
Dominus Flevit - (Franciscan) Mt. of Olives.
Latin Patriarchate - Jaffa Gate or New Gate.
Lithostrotos (Sisters of Zion) - Via Dolorosa, Old City.

Notre Dame de France - (Assumptionists) 18 Rehov Shivtei Yisrael. St. Saviour's Parish Church - St. Francis St., New Gate. Terra Sancta College - King George St.

Greek Catholic:
Greek Catholic Patriarchate - Jaffa Gate.

Armenian Orthodox:
Cathedral of St. James - Armenian Orthodox Patriarch Road.
Coptic: Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate - Souq Khan e-Zeit.

Protestant:
Church of the Nazarene - 33 Nablus Rd.
Anglican Church - St. Paul's Church, Rehov Shivtei Yisrael.
Baptist Chapel - Rehov Hanarkis.
Baptist Southern Worship - Al-Rashid Street.
First Baptist Bible Church - (Independent) Saladin St. Church of Scotland - St. Andrew's Church, Rehov Harakevet.
Seventh Day Adventists - Advent House.
Y.M.C.A. - King David St.
St. George's Cathedral (Anglican) - Nablus Rd.
Christ Church - (Anglican Charismatic) opposite Citadel, Old City.
Church of the Redeemer - (Lutheran) Muristan, Old City.

Eastern Orthodox:
Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Rehov Ethiopia.
Greek Orthodox Church - St. Simeon, Katamon.
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Trinity - Russian Compound.
Russian Orthodox Church of St. Maria Magdalena - Mt. of Olives.