Ishtabach
אישטבח
Restaurant · Kurdish-Syrian · ₪₪ · The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate)
1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem
Is this your business?Claim it freeA Kurdish-Syrian restaurant on HaShikma Street by Mahane Yehuda market, built around shamburak, a meat-filled pastry baked in a taboon.
Ishtabach is a Kurdish-Syrian restaurant opened by Oren Sasson Levi out of memories of his grandmother Yazi's kitchen, and above all of her shamburak: dough she filled with her siske, beef ribs cooked long and slow. Its site tells that in the years of austerity the women would take what was left of the Shabbat dishes, fold it into fresh dough and bake it with the meat. Levi took the pastry a step further, adding the Indian flavours of his wife Yasmin and meats in new seasonings. Each shamburak comes out of the taboon crisp and hot, filled with Indian-style mashed potato, caramelised onion and chimichurri, with dips on the side; the fillings run from siske, brisket and asado to veal cheek, tongue, Syrian kebab and a vegetarian one. The room is designed to feel like a grandparents' home. It is open from noon to midnight Sunday to Wednesday, to 01:00 on Thursday, and on Friday from 10:30 to 16:00.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed. Friday until 16:00
- Kosher
- The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate)
- Diet
- Kurdish-Syrian, gluten-free options
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Wheelchair
- Two accessible entrances, access routes and disabled parking, and it can be reached by email or WhatsApp as well as by phone; the statement was last updated on 16 November 2023.
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Takeaway
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Ishtabach itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Wednesday | 12:00-00:00 |
|---|---|
| Thursday | 12:00-01:00 |
| Friday | 10:30-16:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
Candle lighting 5:38 PMShabbat ends 6:34 PM
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Location
1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda, Jerusalem
- Train: Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon0.9 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 116 mlines 18, 25, 45, 66, 66א, 74, 111
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-11.
Questions
About Ishtabach
- Closed on ShabbatOpen 6 days a week; on Friday it closes at 16:00.
- 0.9 km from Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 284 m: שוק מחנה יהודה/אגריפס, שוקניון/אגריפס, כי״ח/יפו, רחוב שערי צדק/יפו.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪On its menu a shamburak costs 62 to 92 shekels and the starters 30 to 74.
InstagramFacebookishtabach.co.il
Ishtabach is a restaurant at 1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. Behind it: founder Oren Sasson Levi.
It publishes its menu on ishtabach.co.il; 10 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 11 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on ishtabach.co.il on 11 October 2026: Sunday to Wednesday 12:00 to 00:00, Thursday 12:00 to 01:00, Friday 10:30 to 16:00, Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon, 0.9 km away. The nearest bus stops are שוק מחנה יהודה/אגריפס (116 m), שוקניון/אגריפס (144 m), כי״ח/יפו (254 m).
On the Jerusalem religious council's list on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026, as a restaurant at 1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda. Its site says its kashrut is halak (glatt) under the Rabbinate and links the certificate. It is listed as wheelchair accessible on ishtabach.co.il.
Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
ברוכים הבאים לאישטבח, מסעדה כורדית סורית. אישטבח, בית של אוכל ייחודי ומעניין, המשלב ניחוחות של זמן, עבר, הווה ועתיד.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 5 October 2026, as a restaurant at 1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda. Its site says its kashrut is halak (glatt) under the Rabbinate and links the certificate. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-11
- Accessibility statement
- Listed as wheelchair accessible ishtabach.co.il2026-10-11
- Companies Registrar
- Its pages name no company. ishtabach.co.il2026-10-11
- 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 | אישטבח / Ishtabach | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 1 HaShikma Street, Mahane Yehuda | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7852494, 35.2115794 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-623-2997 | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | ishtabach.co.il | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Wednesday 12:00 to 00:00, Thursday 12:00 to 01:00, Friday 10:30 to 16:00, Saturday closed | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from ishtabach.co.il | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 10 items with prices | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate) | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Two accessible entrances, access routes and disabled parking, and it can be reached by email or WhatsApp as well as by phone; the statement was last updated on 16 November 2023. | ishtabach.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon 0.9 km; שוק מחנה יהודה/אגריפס 116 m; שוקניון/אגריפס 144 m; שוקניון/אגריפס 229 m; שוק מחנה יהודה/אגריפס 229 m; כי״ח/יפו 254 m; רחוב שערי צדק/יפו 284 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Wolt | wolt.com | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its pages name no company. | ishtabach.co.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 | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from the restaurant's website | ishtabach.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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