My first ever visit of this area was in 2019, just before a few months of the massive "pandemics" started everywhere. I walked along the less or more known to me streets with an idea to shoot the Sukkah constructions in the streets and backyards. I enjoyed the process of find them and entering deeper to the absolutely unknown to me locations, and in some moment just got my attention that I was surrounded only by religious people, i mean deeply religious Orthodox. I asked some worker in the local market about the place and he say the name of the street - Mea Shearim.
Mea Shearim is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem outside of the Old City, that was established in 1874. Many of my local friends, even those who were borned in this country never set their foot on the stones of these streets and did not enter this neighborhood. There are different reasons for this attitude to this area.
This time i come there according to my wish to see this literally different way of life again. The Sukkot was supposed to start in a few hours, i late a little bit, and the streets were less crowded than i they were during my first visit in 2019.
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