Jerusalem - Mea Shearim 
 
The Mea Shearim district is the place where the second Jewish settlement outside the Old City walls was founded in 1875. At the entrances to this quarter are notices asking visitors to respect the customs of the strictly orthodox Jewish residents of the district. Visitors are asked to avoid wearing "improper clothing" (e.g. short-sleeved shirts and dresses, shorts) and photographing the residents. The name Mea Shearim ("a hundred gates") comes from the bible and originates in Isaac's "hundredfold" harvest (Genesis 26,12). The ultra-orthodox Jews can be recognized by their old East European dress, their black clothes and side-curls (peiot). They speak mostly Yiddish, as they see Hebrew as a sacred language to be used only in religious services. In this quarter there is a great number of synagogues, ritual baths and Yeshivot (Talmudic schools). The shops, particularly round the market square (also called 'Shabbat Square'), sell religious articles but also clothes and food for relatively low prices.