JahnunBar — Restaurant in Jerusalem

I know you’ve been through pain. Your country has faced rockets, bombs, terror, and grief. You may have lost people you love. You may fear for your family every time a siren goes off. I don’t pretend to understand that fully. But I ask you this — not as an outsider, not as an enemy — but as a fellow human being.

Killing civilians, including Palestinian children, women, and men who are not part of any armed group, is wrong.

Not because they are Palestinians. But because they are people.

Because every time an innocent life is taken, something dies in all of us. Every time we justify it, we step a little further away from the values we say we’re protecting.

You don’t have to give up your love for your people to see the humanity in another.

You don’t have to agree with Hamas to believe that a Palestinian mother weeping over her child is just as real, just as sacred, as any mother in Tel Aviv.

You don’t have to give up your safety to call for restraint and justice.

But if we lose our ability to care about the lives of others — even those on the other side of the wall — then the cycle continues forever.

And maybe, just maybe, it stops when one person decides that killing innocents is not strength, and not defense, but a line we don’t cross.

Maybe that...

A friend pointed out this spot so I tried it. It was delicious! I've never had a malawach before, and it was fun to watch them make it because they threw it into the air. The bread was so soft, and I got all the toppings inside. I wanted spicy sauce but the person making mine either didn't hear me or forgot. It was piping hot when I ate it, and in the end I decided because the lack of flavor, I wanted the spicy sauce. The vegetables inside were really fresh, and I enjoyed the food. It was a lot better after the spicy sauce was added, and it was a lot of food. At 25 shekels, it's a bit pricey but it's a filling meal. The space just has counter space and probably around ten chairs. Order first, they make food,...

The tastiest bite I had in Israel was here. While exploring the Machaneh Yehuda market at night I found this place to have the biggest line of waiting customers, this along with the interesting style the food was being made at drew me in. I was seeing multiple pans on the stove, what came out of it were fluffiest pancake/crepes I have ever seen, after a minute these were 1/3rd of their original thickness and then were topped with delicious ingredients such as tehina, hummus, eggplant, fried onion, pickles and more. They, in turn, were served as rolls called Memulawach, these tasted like heavenly. It’s supposed to be a Yemenite street food and a must have when...