But locals say Abu Shukri (63 Al-Wad Road, 972-02-627-1538) has the best hummus in the Holy City.
In addition, cameras and aerial surveillance will monitor the crowds in the holy city, he said.
The holy city has been fought over for centuries and is being fought over still.
Jerusalem's former mufti, Akrama Sabri, thundered that believers should be liberating the holy city, not helping its occupier.
Palestinian claims that Israel has been tightening its grip on the holy city have some truth to them.
The holy city is striving to meet the challenge with some Vegas-like amenities.
The device exploded in a car park at 17:00 (14:00 GMT) as pilgrims returned from the holy city of Karbala.
Mojtaba Vahedi was born in 1964 to a pious household in the holy city of Qom but grew up mostly in Tehran.
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It has installed thousands of new centrifuge machines at an underground military facility in the holy city of Qom, the IAEA reported.
Manal al-Sharif was born in the holy city of Mecca to a family of "conservative" but "regular Muslims, " as she puts it.
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Fordo, which is buried deep under a mountain inside a military base near the holy city of Qom, has long been of concern to the West.
In November, the IAEA announced that Iran had more than doubled its capacity to produce nuclear fuel at an underground military facility near the holy city of Qom.
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The eastern sector of the holy city is one of the territories that Israel has occupied, along with the West Bank, Gaza and others, since a 1967 war.
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The Guardian said the top negotiator for the Iraqi government, Sami al-Askari, had flown several time to Iran to negotiate with the kidnappers in the holy city of Qom.
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In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
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The new facility is said to be underground at a mountain on the site of a former missile site belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, north-east of the holy city of Qom.
Tehran crossed at least one of Israel's "red lines" earlier this month when it announced it had begun enriching uranium at the Fordow underground nuclear facility near the holy city of Qom.
Iran has also completed the development of an uranium-enrichment facility in a fortified military structure near the holy city of Qom, which is seen as largely immune from an American or Israeli attack.
So too have several hundred seminary teachers in the holy city of Qom, while various of the reformist parties and factions have also issued statements declaring support for him and urging him to stand.
They called on the faithful to assemble at Sadrist offices throughout the country, to be bused into Najaf to defend their leader, and demand the immediate withdrawal of American troops from the holy city.
The arrests were made in "co-ordinated and simultaneous operations in four regions of the kingdom, " including the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca, the ministry was quoted as saying in a separate statement.
Commentators also say that while hard-line Israelis saw Husseini's presence in Jerusalem as a threat to their claims of sovereignty, many others believe his informal contacts with Israelis prevented many confrontations in the Holy City.
The young whistled and applauded the president in a thoroughly unIslamic way: indeed, three days later no fewer than 20, 000 conservative clerics gathered in the holy city of Qom to protest at their bad behaviour.
"This aggression wouldn't have happened had it not been for the presence of the occupiers who brought these companies, " al-Sadr's political committee said in a statement issued by his office in the holy city of Najaf.
"While we were there, al-Jazeera ran a totally false report that American troops had gone and detained one of the key imams in the holy city of Najaf, which was a false report, " Mr Wolfowitz said.
Race, religion, creed and sometimes even gender are supremely relevant if the Holy City, a complex web of separate Jewish and Arab districts, is ever to be divided peaceably into the capitals of two states, Israel and Palestine.
Mr Crocker added that Muqtada al-Sadr, perhaps the most powerful anti-American Iraqi Shia leader, has now told his men to stop attacking Iraqis or Americans, prompted perhaps by widespread revulsion at attacks by his militia, the Mahdi Army, on fellow-Shia worshippers in the holy city of Karbala.
We seem to be a long way from the Exaltation of the Cross, the subject of the last scene in Gaddi's fresco cycle, in which the Emperor Heraclius, having alighted from his horse by order of an angel and walking barefoot like a mendicant friar, bears the relic into the holy city.
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