Zikhron Tuvya

Zikhron Tuvya (Hebrew: זכרון טוביה, Recollection of [God's] Goodness),[1] also spelled Zichron Tuvia, is a former courtyard neighborhood in Jerusalem.

[3] Other founders included Rabbis Nota Zvi Hamburger, David Boymgarten, Shmuel Zukerman, and Mechel Leib Katz.

[12] Business was brisk, while to the north, in an empty lot next to the Beit Ya'akov neighborhood on Jaffa Road, a "disorganized" shuk (open-air market) of Arab vendors operated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[15] In 1992 the Jerusalem municipality designated Zikhron Tuvya as the first historic neighborhood to undergo rehabilitation, due to its severe state of deterioration and neglect.

The work involved constructing a new two-story edifice on the base of the original one-room house, which was 5 metres (16 ft) wide.

[16] According to a 2009 Jerusalem survey, Zikhron Tuvya, like other historic neighborhoods in the vicinity, has an average apartment size of 48 square metres (520 sq ft), one of the smallest in the city.

[17] The exterior of the homes sport a variety of blue-painted doors, windows, and gates, as well as horseshoes and hamsas, to guard against the evil eye.