The intersection of Jaffa, King George and Strauss streets, in a photo from 1924.
More of once upon a time in Jerusalem.
Jaffa Street was built on the remains of the road that led from the city of Jaffa to the entrance to the city and up to the Jaffa Gate.
Initially, the road was intended for horse and donkey carriages, and towards the middle of the twenties of the last century, the road was widened with the introduction of automobiles into the reality of our lives.
On the ninth of December 1924, the intersection was inaugurated with the paving of King George Street, which crosses Jaffa Street from south to north, in the direction of Geula and Me’a Shearim neighborhoods.
In the picture – a view from south to north,
the Treblos restaurant on the right, and on the left part of the building that will be used in the future as the Bikur Cholim hospital.
To the right of the photo before the intersection was the Sbarro restaurant, which is remembered from the terrible bomb attack of August 9, 2001, in which 15 Israelis were murdered and about 140 were injured.
And this was not the only attack over the years on the Jaffa axis and King Gorge Street, which has seen other serious incidents.
And today – on Jaffa Street runs the light rail axis, and on both sides residential towers of 10-25 stories have been erected and are being erected, the new municipal train station will be dug in the area of the Davidka Square, and the area is in a feverish construction boom.
This is how our Jerusalem is renewed with the blessed population growth, befitting the Eternal City and the capital of the State of Israel.
New next to old, attacks and renewed growth and a light rail that replaces donkeys and freight wagons.
Shabbat of peace to far and near from Jerusalem, good news and the abductees will soon return home .
