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100

What is the busiest place in Jerusalem on erev Shabbat?

What is Mahane Yehuda?

100

It is the oldest Chareidi area of Jerusalem.

What is Mea Shearim?

100

King David who conquered it and made it the seat of his monarchy in approximately what year?

What is 1000 B.C.E? 

100

A common citation of your number shall I am celebrations in Israel is a quote from what Psalm? What is the citation?

What is Psalm 122:3: Ir shehubrah lah Yahdaib - "a city united?

100

What is the name of the ancient Roman marketplace that spans north and south of the old city?

What is the Cardo

200

These two intersections had large Xs painted on them allowing for diagonal crossing.

What are Shabbat Square and the junction of Rechov Yaffo and King George?

200

The first neighborhood established outside of the old city.

What is Mishkenot Sha'ananim?

200

What is the Arabic name for the Ir David?

What is Wadi Hilweh -  the village of Silwan? 

200

What day in the Hebrew calendar do we celebrate Yom  Yerushalyim? 

28th day of Iyar?

200

This is an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem

What is the Tower of David (Hebrew: מגדל דוד‎, romanized: Migdál Davíd), also known as the Citadel

300

It is the world's deepest heavy-rail passenger station, and the fourth deepest underground station in the world

What is Yitzhak Navon railway station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת ירושלים – יצחק נבון‎, Tahanat HaRakevet Yerushalaim–Yitzhak Navon ?

300

In this neighborhood many of the professors of Hebrew University lived and much German was spoken there.

What is Rechavya?

300

This is a water channel that was carved beneath the City of David, located in the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in eastern Jerusalem.

What is Siloam Tunnel (Hebrew: נִקְבַּת הַשִּׁלֹחַ‎, Nikbat HaShiloah), also known as Hezekiah's Tunnel?

300

 In 1948 the Palmach attempted to breach this gate to help defend the Jewish quarter from the Arab Legion, unsuccessfully. 

What is Zion Gate?

300

This ruler built the Old City's monumental defensive rampart walls and city between 1535–1542  

What is Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

400

This rabbi was the founding rabbi and founder of the Nachlaot neighborhood?

Who was Yosef Rivlin (1838–1897)

400

This neighborhood is named after a colonel in the British Army. 

What is French Hill?

400

Herod the Great used the main quarry for building blocks in the renovation of the Temple and its retaining walls, including the Kotel 

What is Zedekiah's Cave or Solomon's Quarries

400

This epic battle for a hilltop monastery in 1948, decided the fate of South eastern Jerusalem.  

What was the Battle of San Simon?

400

This is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. Located in the southwestern corner of the Old City.

What is the Armenian quarter

500

This new neighborhood was renamed after a leader of the local Mafdal party who was killed at a young age in a car accident.  

What is Har Choma or Chomat Shmuel? (after Shmuel Meir, who served as deputy Mayor of Jerusalemand who was born in 1954)

500

This outlying neighborhood established in 1924 was abandoned by the Jews in 1948 and resettled after the Six Day War.

What is Neve Yaakov?

500

This ancient Israelite temple located in the area of Motza on the outskirts of Jerusalem, discovered in 2012 by Israeli archaeologists.

What is  Tel Motza?

500

50 years later, 3 soldiers reenact, remembering their iconic Six-Day war photo in front of a liberated Kotel.

What is (Who Are) Zion Karasenti, Haim Oshri, and Itzik Yifatis?

500

Founded in the early 18th century by followers of Judah HaHasid on the ruins of the 15th century synagogue, it was demolished during the Jordanian rule of the old city

What is the Hurve Synagogue rebuilt in 2010

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