🇮🇱 Israel
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is the most contested and most sacred city on earth — holy to three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), the site of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock. The Old City (UNESCO World Heritage) is divided into four quarters (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Armenian) within 16th-century Ottoman walls. The scale of history here is impossible to fully absorb: 3,000 years of recorded history, dozens of civilizations, and the most disputed few hundred metres of land on the planet. Three days here will change how you understand the world.