Tmol Shilshom
תמול שלשום
Restaurant · Café · Dairy · The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate), dairy
5 Yoel Moshe Salomon Street, Nahalat Shiva (in the courtyard, second floor), Jerusalem
Is this your business?Claim it freeA restaurant, café and bookshop in a Nahalat Shiva courtyard that has hosted Israel's writers and poets since 1994.
Tmol Shilshom opened in 1994 on the Nahalat Shiva pedestrian street, in one of the first neighbourhoods built outside the Old City walls, a quarter of Jerusalem-stone houses with arches and old alcoves. It was set up as a restaurant that is also a bookshop: shelves full of books, painting exhibitions and artworks stand between the arches. From the start it has been a home for literature, with evenings at which Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Zeruya Shalev, Meir Shalev and many others met their readers, alongside young writers, musicians and artists. The kitchen is dairy and kosher. It has two halls, the larger for up to 55 people, for private meals, celebrations and conferences, with a sound system and a projector. Its home page opens with Amos Oz's line that Jerusalem has one holy place over which no blood need be spilled: Tmol Shilshom.
At a glance
- Shabbat
- Closed. Friday until 14:00
- Kosher
- The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate), dairy
- Diet
- Dairy
- Wheelchair
- No step-free way into the restaurant or to its toilets; the building is listed for preservation and holds an official exemption. Disabled parking is on the nearby streets.
- Own website
- Active on Instagram
- Facebook page
- Open on Friday
Photos
On its Facebook
For illustration: the town and the trade, not Tmol Shilshom itself. Its own pictures are on Instagram
Opening hours
Checking the clock in Israel
| Sunday to Thursday | 08:30-23:00 |
|---|---|
| Friday | 08:30-14:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
Candle lighting 5:46 PMShabbat ends 6:41 PM
As published on tmol-shilshom.co.il, read 2026-10-11. Shabbat times in Jerusalem
Sources disagree on these hours
Sunday to Thursday as its contact page gives them. On Friday it opens at 08:30 and, by its own page, closes about an hour before Shabbat; 14:00 is the Friday closing on its booking page, which lists Sunday to Thursday as 09:00 to 22:30.
Location
5 Yoel Moshe Salomon Street, Nahalat Shiva (in the courtyard, second floor), Jerusalem
- Train: Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon1.8 km from the door, straight line
- Bus: Nearest stop 281 m
© OpenStreetMap contributors · Distances from OpenStreetMap, read 2026-10-11.
Questions
About Tmol Shilshom
- Restaurant and café in oneIt trades as both, under one name at one address.
- Closed on ShabbatOpen 6 days a week; on Friday it closes at 14:00.
- 1.8 km from Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon stationBus stops within 324 m: תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/המלך ג׳ורג׳, הנביאים/הרב קוק, תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/שטראוס, המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה.
- Its own website and social pagesThe menu and the news come from the business itself, not from a directory.
InstagramFacebooktmol-shilshom.co.il
Tmol Shilshom is a restaurant at 5 Yoel Moshe Salomon Street, Nahalat Shiva (in the courtyard, second floor) in Jerusalem, in the Jerusalem District. It is also a café.
Hours, as listed on tmol-shilshom.co.il on 11 October 2026: Sunday to Thursday 08:30 to 23:00, Friday 08:30 to 14:00, Saturday closed.
The nearest railway station is Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon, 1.8 km away. The nearest bus stops are תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/המלך ג׳ורג׳ (281 m), הנביאים/הרב קוק (300 m), תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/שטראוס (310 m).
On the Jerusalem religious council's list on the Ministry of Religious Services' kashrut portal, read on 5 October 2026, at 5 Salomon Street. Its site says it is dairy and kosher. It is listed as not wheelchair accessible on tmol-shilshom.co.il.
Jerusalem does not publish its business licence register online, so the licence could not be checked.
תמול שלשום, שנפתח ב-1994, היה מאז היווסדו מוסד תרבות, שמארח את מיטב הסופרים והמשוררים, ביניהם יהודה עמיחי, עמוס עוז, א"ב יהושע, דויד גרוסמן, אורלי קסטל בלום, בתיה גור, צרויה שלו, מאיר שלו ועוד רבים וטובים. מתארחים במקום גם כותבים וכותבות צעירים, מוסיקאים/יות ואמנים/יות מתחומים שונים.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, at 5 Salomon Street. Its site says it is dairy and kosher. shirathayam.m-datit.org.il2026-10-11
- Accessibility statement
- Listed as not wheelchair accessible tmol-shilshom.co.il2026-10-11
- Companies Registrar
- Its pages name no company. tmol-shilshom.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 | תמול שלשום / Tmol Shilshom | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Address | 5 Yoel Moshe Salomon Street, Nahalat Shiva (in the courtyard, second floor) | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Coordinates | 31.7812778, 35.2199037 (OpenStreetMap) | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Phone | 02-623-2758 | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Website | tmol-shilshom.co.il | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Table bookings | ontopo.co.il | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Linked, not copied | |
| Logo | Its own icon, from tmol-shilshom.co.il | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Opening hours | Sunday to Thursday 08:30 to 23:00, Friday 08:30 to 14:00, Saturday closed | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| What it is like | Written from tmol-shilshom.co.il | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Kosher certificate | The Jerusalem religious council (Jerusalem Rabbinate), dairy | shirathayam.m-datit.org.il | Fact, shown | |
| Accessibility | No step-free way into the restaurant or to its toilets; the building is listed for preservation and holds an official exemption. Disabled parking is on the nearby streets. | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Fact, shown | |
| Train and bus | Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon 1.8 km; תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/המלך ג׳ורג׳ 281 m; הנביאים/הרב קוק 300 m; תחנת רקל״ה יפו מרכז/שטראוס 310 m; הנביאים/הרב קוק 314 m; המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה 324 m; המלך ג׳ורג׳/בן יהודה 367 m | openstreetmap.org | Fact, shown | |
| Delivery apps | Not on Wolt or 10bis | Our own check | Fact, shown | |
| Companies Registrar | Its pages name no company. | tmol-shilshom.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 | tmol-shilshom.co.il | Quoted, attributed | |
| Photographs | 2 licensed | instagram.com | Linked, not copied |
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