Jerusalem - Mandelbaum Gate

Beyond St Stephen's Monastery a street goes off on the left and runs into St George Street at the site of the Mandelbaum Gate, which from 1948 to 1967 was the only crossing-point between the Israeli and Jordanian sectors of Jerusalem. There was in fact no gate: merely a passage between barbed wire entanglements. It took its name from the owner of a nearby house, the site of which is marked by a plaque.