Wishing Bridge

This guide to the Wishing Bridge in Old Jaffa traces the local superstition around a plain nineteen-sixties footbridge, where bronze zodiac reliefs by artists Freddy Fabian and Esther Shlomo, and a matching stone mosaic, turned an ordinary crossing into a place to make a wish facing the sea. You'll hear how visitors have lined up over the decades to find their sign and touch it before looking out at the Mediterranean, and how the bridge's own timbers eventually began to wear thin. Find your zodiac sign among the twelve before you make a wish.