Arafat Hummus
חומוס ערפאת
Restaurant · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
Goldsmiths' Market (Souq al-Khawajat), at the corner of David Street, Old City, Jerusalem
A small hummus place with no sign where David Street meets the Old City's Goldsmiths' Market, with warm hummus from the morning and a pot of maqluba at noon
Arafat Hummus, also called Hummus Nazmi, is a small hummus place with no sign in the Old City market, in the Muslim Quarter. Walking down David Street from Jaffa Gate, at its foot you turn left into the Goldsmiths' Market instead of right towards the Cardo and the Western Wall, and it is a few metres along. The hummus is ground in small batches, as Kol Ha'ir described it, and served warm in deep bowls with ful or whole chickpeas and olive oil, with fresh, thick pitas, pickles, onion and hot peppers; the press describes it as very sour, with a lot of lemon, in the East Jerusalem style. At midday there are home-cooked dishes: a pot of maqluba, yellow rice with lamb and fried cauliflower, turned out onto a tray around 12:30, beef meatballs in tomato sauce with potatoes, and, ynet added in 2025, falafel. It takes up a few small rooms on both sides of the alley, with the kitchen across from the main eating room. Space is short, so diners eat and make room for the next, and 50 Best Discovery says workmen and market traders keep coming back. It opens early in the morning and closes when the food runs out. Yehonatan Cohen opened ynet's 2025 list of the best hummus places in Israel with it, calling it the finest ambassador of East Jerusalem hummus and a fine stop before or after a morning visit to the Western Wall, and it is listed in 50 Best Discovery, the restaurant guide of The World's 50 Best.
What happens here
- Lunchtime, around 12:30
- The maqluba is turned over
The day's pot of maqluba, yellow rice with lamb and fried cauliflower, is turned out onto a large tray at lunchtime, and the locals crowd in for it, the city's tourism site says. Kol Ha'ir saw it turned at 12:30 sharp in 2017 and again in 2019, and a waiter told it in 2017 that the owners had done so every day for 65 years.
- From early morning
- Hummus while it lasts
It opens early in the morning and serves until the hummus runs out, ynet wrote in 2020. 50 Best Discovery gives it for breakfast and lunch and advises coming before noon, and ynet called it a fine stop before or after a morning visit to the Western Wall.
As published on ynet, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 08:00-16:00
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- No statement
- Takeaway
Photos
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Arafat Hummus itself.
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Thursday | 08:00-16:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | 08:00-16:00 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Arafat Hummus has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:03 PMShabbat ends 6:58 PM
As published on iTravelJerusalem, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
These are the hours on the city's official tourism site, whose entry for it was last updated in September 2024: 08:00 to 16:00 from Sunday to Thursday and on Saturday, and closed on Friday. 50 Best Discovery also gives breakfast and lunch from Saturday to Thursday. The press says it opens early in the morning and closes when the food runs out: ynet wrote so in 2020, and 50 Best Discovery advises coming before noon. Its Google listing gives no hours. Restaurant Guru's page for it, updated in August 2026, gives 09:00 to 23:00 on most days, 09:00 to 19:00 on Monday, 09:00 to 16:00 on Friday and 11:00 to 23:00 on Saturday, which match no other source.
Location
Goldsmiths' Market (Souq al-Khawajat), at the corner of David Street, Old City, Jerusalem
- Train: Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon3 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 244 mlines 2, 38, 83, 83א
- Parking: OpenStreetMap maps the market alleys around it as pedestrian streets, and Karta Parking, the paid underground car park at Jaffa Gate, 1 Yitzhak Kariv Street, with 838 spaces, about 430 metres to the west in a straight line; a car park on Mount Zion is about 500 metres to the south.Several car parks nearer by, inside the walls, are marked for residents with permits or for the police.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.3315 ratings · As quoted by wanderlog.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor4.611 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
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About Arafat Hummus
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 08:00 to 16:00.
- 326 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 3 km from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 492 m: הקישלה/הפטריארכיה הארמנית, הכותל המערבי, הרובע היהודי/חב״ד, שער האשפות/מעלה השלום, מעלה השלום/בתי מחסה, חטיבת ירושלים/ יצחק קריב, שער ציון/חב״ד, שער יפו/יפו, מעלה השלום/מעלות עיר דוד, ממילא/קריב.
- Price band ₪₪Restaurant Guru puts it at 2 of 4 on price, at 31 to 77 shekels a person. It publishes no menu or prices of its own. The city's tourism site says its prices suit every pocket, and Kol Ha'ir called them ridiculously low in 2019; in 2017 Kol Ha'ir printed 15 shekels for a plate of hummus with ful or chickpeas, with a refill offered, and 25 for a dish of two large meatballs with potatoes.
Arafat Hummus is a restaurant at Goldsmiths' Market (Souq al-Khawajat), at the corner of David Street, Old City in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District.
Hours, as listed on iTravelJerusalem on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 08:00 to 16:00, Friday closed, Saturday 08:00 to 16:00.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon, 3 km away. The nearest bus stops are הקישלה/הפטריארכיה הארמנית (244 m), הכותל המערבי (288 m), הרובע היהודי/חב״ד (353 m). OpenStreetMap maps the market alleys around it as pedestrian streets, and Karta Parking, the paid underground car park at Jaffa Gate, 1 Yitzhak Kariv Street, with 838 spaces, about 430 metres to the west in a straight line; a car park on Mount Zion is about 500 metres to the south. Several car parks nearer by, inside the walls, are marked for residents with permits or for the police.
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not on the Jerusalem religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, under either of its names or in the Goldsmiths' Market. It has no pages of its own showing a certificate, it is open on Saturday, and the city's tourism site calls it not kosher. We found no published accessibility statement, so call ahead if step-free access matters to you.
The name does not appear in the Companies Registrar, which points to a sole proprietorship or partnership rather than a company. Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
The public registers a directory should check and usually does not. A blank is reported as a blank.
- Kosher certificate
- No kashrut certificate was found. It is not on the Jerusalem religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, under either of its names or in the Goldsmiths' Market. It has no pages of its own showing a certificate, it is open on Saturday, and the city's tourism site calls it not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- It has no website and so no accessibility statement. The city's tourism site marks it as partly accessible and says no more. itraveljerusalem.com2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- No page names a company behind it, and it has no pages of its own. The Companies Registrar has no company named חומוס ערפאת or Arafat Hummus, and none of the companies with ערפאת or נזמי in their names is a food business in the Old City. data.gov.il2026-10-01
- 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 | חומוס ערפאת / Arafat Hummus | itraveljerusalem.com | Fact, shown | |
| Address | Goldsmiths' Market (Souq al-Khawajat), at the corner of David Street, Old City | itraveljerusalem.com | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.776881, 35.231201 (its Google listing, as Wanderlog copies it) | wanderlog.com | Fact, shown | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 08:00 to 16:00, Friday closed, Saturday 08:00 to 16:00 | itraveljerusalem.com | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | The maqluba is turned over; Hummus while it lasts | ynet.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.3 from 315 ratings, as quoted by wanderlog.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.6 from 11 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | restaurantguru.com | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | No published statement found | itraveljerusalem.com | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | OpenStreetMap maps the market alleys around it as pedestrian streets, and Karta Parking, the paid underground car park at Jaffa Gate, 1 Yitzhak Kariv Street, with 838 spaces, about 430 metres to the west in a straight line; a car park on Mount Zion is about 500 metres to the south. Several car parks nearer by, inside the walls, are marked for residents with permits or for the police. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon 3 km; הקישלה/הפטריארכיה הארמנית 244 m; הכותל המערבי 288 m; הרובע היהודי/חב״ד 353 m; שער האשפות/מעלה השלום 370 m; שער האשפות/מעלה השלום 374 m; מעלה השלום/בתי מחסה 393 m; חטיבת ירושלים/ יצחק קריב 435 m; שער ציון/חב״ד 454 m; שער יפו/יפו 468 m; מעלה השלום/מעלות עיר דוד 469 m; מעלה השלום/מעלות עיר דוד 479 m; ממילא/קריב 492 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | No page names a company behind it, and it has no pages of its own. The Companies Registrar has no company named חומוס ערפאת or Arafat Hummus, and none of the companies with ערפאת or נזמי in their names is a food business in the Old City. | data.gov.il | 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 | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | Our own check | Linked, not copied |
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