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Used and rare bookshops in Israel

9 shops in Jerusalem, Haifa, Ra’anana and Tel Aviv-Yafo.

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The shops

Used books & prints Used books & printsSefer ve SefelCity centre, Jerusalem An English-language used bookshop open since 1981, with more than 26,000 titles over two floors. Used books & prints Used books & printsGolden BooksCarmel Center, Haifa A bookshop of almost 90 years, run by one man for more than half a century, with about 40,000 books from estates and a volume printed in Florence in 1551. Used books & prints Used books & printsESRA English Bookshop RaananaRa’anana Secondhand English-language books, shelved from children’s books to mystery, with all proceeds going to ESRA’s community projects. Used books & prints Used books & printsThe Book GalleryCity centre, Jerusalem More than half a million books by the shop’s own count, and about 60,000 titles that are sold only in the shop, not online.

Used books & prints Used books & printsThe Green BrothersOld North, Tel Aviv-Yafo A separate section of rare and antique books next to a bargain shelf, in a shop that specialises in tracking down sought-after secondhand books. Used books & prints Used books & printsM. Pollak Antiquariat (bookshop)Lev Ha’ir, Tel Aviv-Yafo A family firm founded in 1899, now in its third generation, with antiquarian and out-of-print books on the Holy Land and the Middle East. Used books & prints Used books & printsGoldmund BooksHadar, Haifa More than 30,000 secondhand books, and a Mitzayon room where thousands sell for NIS 10. Used books & prints Used books & printsHaSalonGerman Colony, Jerusalem Unlabelled shelves of secondhand Hebrew books from poetry to children’s titles, and a rule that every shelf of new books starts with a book by a woman.

Used books & prints Used books & printsAdraba BooksCity centre, Jerusalem It buys used books and sells them next to new ones, in Hebrew and English, in fields such as philosophy, poetry and comics.