Posters on the walls of Mea Shearim.
Mea Shearim is a neighborhood north of Jerusalem. It is well known for being a neighborhood where exclusively ultra-Orthodox Jews live. Various signs invite visitors not to enter the neighborhood dressed in an "indecent". History
Mea Shearim means one hundred doors in Hebrew. The name refers to the hundred doors of entry evoked in the Torah and corresponded to the Parsha haShavua (weekly section of the Torah) that was read in the synagogue during the week the neighborhood was created.
It was built throughout the nineteenth century, as life in the old city of Jerusalem was too uncomfortable. The neighborhood was composed of houses with two rooms for about ten people each, which were built next to each other, forming a natural wall, while the schools were in the old town.
The 1948 war left Mea Shearim in the hands of Israel, and the old city became Jordanian. When the State of Israel was created, the people of Mea Shearim and their particular goals were taken into account. The primordial right of any religious Jew to return to Israel, without having to mingle with modern and civil society, was respected, since the right of return applied to both Orthodox and lay.
Military service was never imposed, as the Israeli army accepted the religious reasons for not forcing anyone to take a weapon. Nor were they imposed the so-called national alternative service if their way of life forced them to study in a yeshiva.
Coordinates: 31 ° 47'13 "N 35 ° 13'20" E / 31.78694, 35.22222
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