Avoid the Easter crowds & summer heat - try May for pleasant weather .
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If you are a foreigner in Jerusalem, whether a permanent resident or just passing through, you have certain special privileges. You will see the cool, cosmopolitan Israeli youth culture in the many bars and clubs (check out the Russian Compound area - usually neglected by the tourist crowds, and very trendy), the 4000 year old way of life of the bedouin, and the daily struggles of the Palestinian and Israeli Arab people in the city. You will have access that these groups don't have to some of the richest archaeological sites in the world, that you have heard about since your early childhood, as well as the many world class museums and exhibits (don't leave without seeing the Israel Museum in the SW area). As an outside observer, you can learn an incredible amount, very safely, about this cultural melting pot.
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