Endnote 2 – A Thousand Years of History in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter

Crowded alleys where pedestrians and beasts of burden clashed were already a problem in 1890, when the Turkish municipal authorities banned camels from the Old City. Those large animals—and organic polluters—were allowed to “park” just outside the Citadel, and the goods they carried were transferred to the backs of small donkeys. To this day most goods are brought into the Old City by donkeys.