Me'a Sha'arim is a neighborhood outside the Old City that is populated by Hasidic Jews, many of whom are anti-Zionist.



Tzitzit (fringes) on the line



An ad for clothing


An alley


Like most older neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Me'a Sha'arim was designed to keep out the wilderness and bedouin tribes that used to be the area, so it has walls and gates


A Hasid kissing the mezuzah on an archway


An arch and stairs leading to a yeshiva courtyard


Children at play


A corner at the end of the neighborhood


A Hasidic family in their Yom Kippur clothing


An average street


Another gate


A girl in her holiday dress


A group of Hasidim in their holiday dress. I don't' know if the old man is hiding his face from me or he's just rubbing his forehead


An old lady walking up the steps leading to another street


The genders are segregated in religious communities in most social activities


A sign warning tourists and the non-religious to dress appropriately int he neighborhood


Steps leading to another street


An average street, just before Yom Kippur


A street filled with Hasidim in their holiday clothing


Another street


An anti-Zionist poster