Karma
כרמא
Restaurant · Italian · Israeli · ₪₪ · No kosher certificate
74 Ein Kerem Street, Jerusalem
Pizzas, focaccias and clay-pot casseroles from a taboon, in a castle-like stone building in Ein Kerem with a terrace over the green hills, open seven days a week
Karma is a restaurant on Ein Kerem Street, among the alleys of the old village of Ein Kerem, in a building the city's tourism site likens to an ancient castle, with two floors and a terrace that looks out over the green landscape; Rest describes its walls of Jerusalem stone and its coloured windows. Its owner and chef is Erez Shabo, who told Kol Ha'ir in December 2019 that it had been open on Saturdays and holidays for twelve years; its website still carries his name. It calls its kitchen Italian-Israeli. A taboon in the middle of the restaurant bakes its focaccias and pizzas and its casseroles, clay bowls sealed with pizza dough over beef meatballs or seafood with fresh pasta, and the menu runs on to pastas, grilled chicken thighs and beef kebab, a burger ground on the premises, a 350-gram sirloin, sea bream, shrimps and calamari, and pastries from the taboon for dessert. It opens every day of the week, Saturday included, and serves business lunches from Sunday to Thursday. Shabo told Kol Ha'ir that Ein Kerem fills with visitors on Saturdays and that the restaurant is always full then; tables from Friday afternoon to Saturday evening are booked by phone. Its upper floor takes private events of up to 60 guests, with set menus. Rest's magazine put it on a 2025 list of romantic restaurants in Jerusalem, and Kol Ha'ir named it in July and August 2026 among the city's places open on Shabbat.
What happens here
- Sunday to Thursday, 11:30 to 17:00
- Business lunches
A starter and a main at the price of the lunch: 132 shekels with schnitzel, grilled chicken breast, beef kebab, the Karma burger, chicken thighs or a pasta, and 156 with shrimps, a whole sea bream, a salmon fillet or the meatball casserole. The starters include the soup of the day, a personal focaccia, salads and grilled aubergine; crispy cauliflower, beef carpaccio and calamari cost more. Desserts are 48 shekels, a glass of wine 30 and a pint of draught beer 29.
- Friday 16:00 to Saturday 18:00
- Shabbat tables by phone
Its booking page asks guests to book a table for these hours by phoning the restaurant on 02-6436643. On Saturday it opens at 10:00.
As published on karma-rest.co.il, read 2026-10-01.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Open Saturday 10:00-22:45
- Kosher
- No certificate
- Diet
- Italian, israeli, gluten-free options
- Prices
- ₪₪ of ₪₪₪
- Seating
- Outdoor seating
- Wheelchair
- Accessible entrance with a wheelchair lift, accessible toilets and accessible parking
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
- Wi-Fi
- Takes credit cards
- Takeaway
- Vegan options
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Karma itself. Its own pictures: 632 posts on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Friday | 11:30-22:45 |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 10:00-22:45 |
| Sukkot | 26 September to 2 October |
| Simchat Torah | 3 Octoberfrom Friday evening |
Karma has not published holiday hours. Call before you go. Sukkot: the dates and times
Candle lighting 6:04 PMShabbat ends 6:58 PM
As published on karma-rest.co.il, read 2026-10-01. All Shabbat times
Sources disagree on these hours
These are the hours in the contact box of its website, added in February 2026. Elsewhere on the same page the footer gives 12:00 to 23:00 from Sunday to Friday and 11:00 to 23:00 on Saturday, and its answers about events say every day from 10:00 to 23:30. Its Google listing, as Restaurant Guru and Wanderlog copy it, has it open from 11:30 to 23:00 from Sunday to Friday and from 10:00 to 23:00 on Saturday. Rest, updated on 6 September 2026, gives 12:00 to 23:00 every day. The city's tourism site gives 10:00 to midnight from Sunday to Wednesday and 10:00 to 01:00 from Thursday to Saturday, and d.co.il gives similar late hours. Business lunches are served from Sunday to Thursday, 11:30 to 17:00, by its menu of September 2026. For a table between Friday 16:00 and Saturday 18:00, its booking page asks guests to phone the restaurant.
Location
74 Ein Kerem Street, Jerusalem9574400
- Train: Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon4.5 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 51 mlines 28, 728
- Parking: OpenStreetMap maps the Ein Kerem car park, underground and free, about 80 metres to the south, a free open car park about 100 metres to the south-west and another about 190 metres to the south-east.Its accessibility arrangements list accessible parking.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-01.
Reviews
- Google4.26432 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Google
- Tripadvisor3.7478 ratings · As quoted by restaurantguru.com, read 2026-10-01Read on Tripadvisor
- Rest3.5124 ratings · Read 2026-10-01Read on Rest
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Questions
About Karma
- Open on ShabbatOn Saturday it is open 10:00 to 22:45.
- 7,034 public ratingsAcross Google, Tripadvisor, Rest, each linked below with the day we read it.
- 4.5 km from Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 336 m: עין כרם/המעיין, עין כרם/ההדסים, עין כרם/מדרגות הכפר, עין כרם/דרך כרמית.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
- Price band ₪₪Its Google listing, as the copy in its Tabit record gives it, puts it in the second of four price bands, and Restaurant Guru gives 100 to 150 shekels a person. On the menus its website put up in September 2026 the starters cost 38 to 82 shekels, the salads 68 to 86, the focaccias 38 to 82 and the pizzas 86 to 96, the pastas 78 to 98, the clay-pot casseroles 142 and 148, the main dishes 88 to 98 and the sirloin 190, the fish and seafood 132 to 142, and the desserts 48 to 64. A business lunch of a starter and a main costs 132 or 156 shekels.
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Karma is a restaurant at 74 Ein Kerem Street in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. Behind it: owner and chef Erez Shabo.
It publishes its menu on karma-rest.co.il; 18 of its dishes are listed below with their prices, as read on 1 October 2026.
Hours, as listed on karma-rest.co.il on 1 October 2026: Sunday to Friday 11:30 to 22:45, Saturday 10:00 to 22:45.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon, 4.5 km away. The nearest bus stops are עין כרם/המעיין (51 m), עין כרם/ההדסים (132 m), עין כרם/מדרגות הכפר (324 m). OpenStreetMap maps the Ein Kerem car park, underground and free, about 80 metres to the south, a free open car park about 100 metres to the south-west and another about 190 metres to the south-east. Its accessibility arrangements list accessible parking.
No kashrut certificate was found. It is not on the Jerusalem religious council's list of kosher businesses, read on 1 October 2026, either by name or at 74 Ein Kerem Street. Its own pages show no certificate and say nothing about kashrut; they say it opens every day, Friday and Saturday included. Its menu has shrimps, calamari and mussels, and dishes that join meat and dairy, such as the beef pepperoni pizza with mozzarella and cheese on the burger. The English page of the city's tourism site calls it not kosher. The accessibility arrangements on its website list accessible parking, an accessible entrance with a wheelchair lift, a listening system and accessible toilets, and admit service animals on showing a certificate; its answers about events add that the main floor is accessible. The city's tourism site marks it partly accessible, and Restaurant Guru marks it wheelchair accessible.
No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists כרמא עין כרם בע"מ, company number 511490708, whose name joins the restaurant's and its neighbourhood's and whose registered address is the restaurant's own, 74 Ein Kerem Street: an active private company incorporated on 18 July 1990, which filed its last annual report for 2026. Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
כרמא מציעה לכם חוויה ירושלמית באחת הפינות הקסומות של ירושלים. מטבח איטלקי ישראלי העושה שימוש במיטב חומרי הגלם שיש לשוק הישראלי להציע עם אווירה קסומה של עין כרם ושירות מוקפד לאירוח נעים ובלתי נשכח.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, either by name or at 74 Ein Kerem Street. Its own pages show no certificate and say nothing about kashrut; they say it opens every day, Friday and Saturday included. Its menu has shrimps, calamari and mussels, and dishes that join meat and dairy, such as the beef pepperoni pizza with mozzarella and cheese on the burger. The English page of the city's tourism site calls it not kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-01
- Accessibility statement
- The accessibility arrangements on its website list accessible parking, an accessible entrance with a wheelchair lift, a listening system and accessible toilets, and admit service animals on showing a certificate; its answers about events add that the main floor is accessible. The city's tourism site marks it partly accessible, and Restaurant Guru marks it wheelchair accessible. karma-rest.co.il2026-10-01
- Companies Registrar
- No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists כרמא עין כרם בע"מ, company number 511490708, whose name joins the restaurant's and its neighbourhood's and whose registered address is the restaurant's own, 74 Ein Kerem Street: an active private company incorporated on 18 July 1990, which filed its last annual report for 2026. 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.datacity.org.il2026-10-01
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| Field | Value | Source | Read on | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | כרמא / Karma | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 74 Ein Kerem Street | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7671281, 35.162515 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-643-6643 | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | karma-rest.co.il | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | tgm-rsv.tabit.cloud | karma-rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from karma-rest.co.il | karma-rest.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Friday 11:30 to 22:45, Saturday 10:00 to 22:45 | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What happens here | Business lunches; Shabbat tables by phone | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Google rating | 4.2 from 6432 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | google.com | Fact, shown | |
| Google review text | Belongs to the reviewers | google.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Tripadvisor rating | 3.7 from 478 ratings, as quoted by restaurantguru.com | tripadvisor.com | Fact, shown | |
| Tripadvisor review text | Belongs to the reviewers | tripadvisor.com | Linked, not copied | |
| Rest rating | 3.5 from 124 ratings | rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Rest review text | Belongs to the reviewers | rest.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Price band | ₪₪ | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Menu | 18 items with prices | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | None published | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | Accessible entrance with a wheelchair lift, accessible toilets and accessible parking | karma-rest.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Parking | OpenStreetMap maps the Ein Kerem car park, underground and free, about 80 metres to the south, a free open car park about 100 metres to the south-west and another about 190 metres to the south-east. Its accessibility arrangements list accessible parking. | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon 4.5 km; עין כרם/המעיין 51 m; עין כרם/המעיין 112 m; עין כרם/ההדסים 132 m; עין כרם/ההדסים 135 m; עין כרם/מדרגות הכפר 324 m; עין כרם/דרך כרמית 336 m; עין כרם/מדרגות הכפר 336 m; עין כרם/דרך כרמית 348 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | No page of the restaurant names the company that runs it. The Companies Registrar lists כרמא עין כרם בע"מ, company number 511490708, whose name joins the restaurant's and its neighbourhood's and whose registered address is the restaurant's own, 74 Ein Kerem Street: an active private company incorporated on 18 July 1990, which filed its last annual report for 2026. | 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.datacity.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| The owners' own words | Quoted from karma-rest.co.il | karma-rest.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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