Israel Day 8/13: Jerusalem

After leaving the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, we wandered a bit in the Christian Quarter of the Old City and stopped for a late lunch of chicken schwarma...

I don't know the significance of the stork statues but it might be because storks migrate through Israel in late summer heading to Africa. This stork is on top of a fountain built in 1903 for the 25th anniversary of Sultan Abdul Hamid's rule. It is near the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer and the MLCDC between the Muslim and Christian Quarters of the city...

The Christian Quarter was much like the Muslim Quarter, full of little shops and stalls...

But you could immediately tell when we reached the Jewish Quarter...

The Jewish Quarter was much more upscale and not nearly as interesting as the others (or at least not where we were). It was kind of mall-like. Which is why, I guess, we didn't really take pictures. But we did take a few...

Then we walked on to the City of David. No, not Bethlehem. The other City of David...

I wish I could figure out the significance of the tooth

with an eye 

I wonder if it really is? But we didn't have time to stop...