• The mosque next to the Hurva Synagogue in the heart of the Jewish Quarter was built by... a Jew named Yosef. Yes, yes. This happened because the caretakers of the nearby Ramban Synagogue did not like his frequent presence at the synagogue.

Yosef and his mother were poor, and their neglected appearance did not add "honor" to the synagogue, in the opinion of the gabbais. The latter decide to expel him and remove him in a humiliating and degrading manner. And revenge will surely come. Joseph and his mother approached the Jerusalem kadi, immediately converted to Islam, and dedicated their home, which was adjacent to the synagogue, to the Muslim Waqf. which he built the Sidna Omar Mosque. The mosque has been owned by the Waqf to this day.

• After the death of Rabbi Judah the Pious, his disciples (among the first Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem) had difficulty paying their obligations to the Ottoman creditors and in 1721 They are destroying the synagogue (which was given the name "the ruin") and expelled all Ashkenazi Jews from the city.

There are some who manage to "sepharadize" (the opposite of Ashkenazize), Impersonate Spaniards and thus pass the local selection process. To this day, there are Ashkenazi Hasidic groups whose clothing is originally Spanish attire, adopted by Ashkenazim for the purpose of disguise.

• Those with a keen eye among us will notice thatIn the famous painting by Caravaggio Illustrating life in the Roman period, among the variety of local characters Teddy Kollek's image fits in, the legendary mayor.