Alma Soups, Central Bus Station
עלמא מרקים, התחנה המרכזית
Restaurant · Soups and kubbeh · The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate)
224 Jaffa Road, in the Central Bus Station, Jerusalem
Is this your business?Claim it freeAlma's soup bar in Jerusalem's Central Bus Station, serving kubbeh soups and soups of the day from a family business that began in Nahalat Shiva.
Alma began, by its own account, in 2008, when a Jerusalem family opened a meat restaurant in an old stone building in Nahalat Shiva; its soups became so well known that the family opened a small soup bar beside it, and more branches followed. The branches serve soups made fresh every day: kubbeh soups with beetroot, hamusta, okra or hamo and a vegan kubbeh, and pea, sweet potato, vegetable, lentil and bean soups. This branch is in Jerusalem's Central Bus Station at 224 Jaffa Road. It opens from 10:00 to 23:00 on Sunday to Wednesday and until midnight on Thursday, closes on Friday two hours before Shabbat, and opens again on Saturday night until midnight. It is one of the chain's seven branches: five in Jerusalem, one in Tel Aviv and one in Haifa.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed Friday and Saturday
- Kosher
- The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate)
- Diet
- Soups and kubbeh
- Wheelchair
- No statement
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
Photos
On the chain's Facebook
For illustration: the area around Alma Soups, Central Bus Station, not the business itself. The chain's own pictures are on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Wednesday | 10:00-23:00 |
|---|---|
| Thursday | 10:00-00:00 |
| Friday and Saturday | Closed |
Candle lighting 5:38 PMShabbat ends 6:34 PM
As published on almasoups.com, read 2026-10-15. Shabbat times in Jerusalem
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Sources disagree on these hours
Its branch list gives Sunday to Thursday from 10:00 to 23:00, Thursday and Saturday night until midnight, and Friday until two hours before Shabbat; it gives no opening time for Friday or for Saturday night.
Location
224 Jaffa Road, in the Central Bus Station, Jerusalem
- Train: Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon0.1 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 31 mlines 1, 39, 54, 54א, 66, 66א, 67, 68 and 11 more
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-15.
Questions
About Alma Soups, Central Bus Station
- 0.1 km from Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 87 m: ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו, ת. מרכזית ירושלים קומה 3/רציפים, ת. מרכזית ירושלים/הורדה.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
InstagramFacebookalmasoups.com
Alma Soups, Central Bus Station is a restaurant at 224 Jaffa Road, in the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. It is one of the 7 Alma branches listed on almasoups.com.
Hours, as listed on almasoups.com on 15 October 2026: Sunday to Wednesday 10:00 to 23:00, Thursday 10:00 to 00:00, Friday and Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon, 0.1 km away. The nearest bus stops are ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו (31 m), ת. מרכזית ירושלים קומה 3/רציפים (80 m), ת. מרכזית ירושלים/הורדה (87 m).
On the Jerusalem religious council's list on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 14 October 2026, as עלמא מרקים at 224 Jaffa Road, Central Bus Station. The list does not give the level, and the chain's pages show no certificate. We found no published accessibility statement, so call ahead if step-free access matters to you.
Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
עלמא היא בית אוכל ירושלמי שנפתח אי שם בשנת 2008. משפחה ירושלמית שאוהבת לארח הקימה מסעדה בשרית נעימה ומיוחדת בנחלת שבעה, במבנה אבן עתיק.The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- On the Jerusalem religious council's list on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 14 October 2026, as עלמא מרקים at 224 Jaffa Road, Central Bus Station. The list does not give the level, and the chain's pages show no certificate. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-15
- Accessibility statement
- None found on its site or its listings2026-10-15
- Companies Registrar
- Its pages name no company. almasoups.com2026-10-15
- Municipal business licence
- No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. jerusalem.muni.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | עלמא מרקים, התחנה המרכזית / Alma Soups, Central Bus Station | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 224 Jaffa Road, in the Central Bus Station | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.788816, 35.203357 (the government's address map) | govmap.gov.il | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | The chain's line 053-538-1127 | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Chain | Alma, 7 branches | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Website | almasoups.com | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Wednesday 10:00 to 23:00, Thursday 10:00 to 00:00, Friday and Saturday closed | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from almasoups.com | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate) | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | No published statement found | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon 0.1 km; ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו 31 m; ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו 34 m; ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו 76 m; ת. מרכזית ירושלים קומה 3/רציפים 80 m; ת. מרכזית ירושלים/יפו 86 m; ת. מרכזית ירושלים/הורדה 87 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its pages name no company. | almasoups.com | Fact, shown | |
| Business licence | No published register of licensed businesses was found for Jerusalem: none of the 114 datasets on the city's open-data portal is such a register, and data.gov.il has none for the city. | jerusalem.muni.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from the chain's website | almasoups.com | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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