Alrov Mamilla Avenue
Open-air luxury shopping promenade of restored nineteenth-century facades linking the Old City to the new.
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This guide to Mamilla Avenue in Jerusalem opens on the night of December 2, 1947, when a mob set fire to the street's shops and a shopkeeper named Yitzhak Penso died trying to save his goods. It follows the strip through nearly twenty years as a sniper-raked no man's land after the 1948 war, when homeless immigrant families moved into the shelled-out buildings anyway. Look for the Clark House along the way, an 1898 building with striped stonework and marble balconies that somehow survived the crossfire.
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