Mea Shearim

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The Jewish quarter of Mea Shearim, close to Jerusalem's Old City, seems to be a place out of time. Tour Guides advise tourists against entering there and also Israeli citizens carefully avoid its streets; it's populated by a wide community of Ortodox Jews, who strictly follow the Jewish Law, dedicate themselves to a neverending study of the Torah and to a complete give up with any modern comfort. At the entrance a large notice advise against the access of tourists, against any kind of irrespectful way of dressing and against the use of cameras.
But Mea Shearim is also the Headquarter of the Anti-Zionist movement 'Neturei Karta' (Jews United Against Zionism) that opposes itself against the existence of Israel. Following the Ortodox belief, the Land of Israel will be united by God's arrival on earth and not by man's hand.
cut off by the Israeli society, the Ortodox community of Mea Shearim (and of few other places in Israel) lives out of time and space, completely isolated from modernity.