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Topic: East Jerusalem

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February 28, 2013
11:32 pm

Mayor Nir Birkat, gearing up with his new, Jerusalem Marathon 2013 shirt (Courtesy Flash 90)

Jerusalem marathon spurs political saber-rattling

Friday’s race’s route through East Jerusalem sparks Palestinian call for iboycott

By Aron Heller

February 27, 2013
12:17 pm

Construction work at the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo, July 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Harsh EU report likely won’t spell settlement sanctions

European consuls recommend reduced trade with Israelis over the Green Line, slam construction in East Jerusalem neighborhoods

By Raphael Ahren

February 26, 2013
9:20 pm

Runners sloshing by the Old City in the 2012 Jerusalem Marathon. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/ Flash90)

Palestinians: Boycott Jerusalem marathon

PLO says route through eastern part of city is an attempt to assert Israeli sovereignty; municipality calls it a ‘symbol of co-existence’

February 25, 2013
7:52 pm

A Palestinian construction worker in Israel. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Government investigators ignore ‘lying’ Palestinians

Judge excoriates Industry, Trade and Labor officials for racist attitudes toward suspects

By Yifa Yaakov

February 15, 2013
12:30 am

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem, Thursday (photo credit: Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor: No split city has ever worked

Nir Barkat tells the Conference of Presidents that construction in the capital’s eastern areas is in everyone’s interests

By Philip Podolsky

February 11, 2013
9:50 am

Mayor of a 'normal' city: Nir Barkat finishes the half-marathon, during the International Jerusalem Marathon last March. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor says the city’s in the fast lane

Nir Barkat reports on his efforts to boost housing, predicts a million residents within 20 years, and says Hollywood and a Formula 1 race are on their way

By David Horovitz

February 6, 2013
9:03 am

Ambassador Dan Shapiro in front of the UN building in New York (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

US ambassador: Obama coming to Israel without demands

Israel will be first stop on president’s first foreign tour since reelection; Obama and PM have ‘urgent, complex’ issues to discuss: thwarting Iran, Syria’s chemical weapons, and peace talks

By Adiv Sterman

February 5, 2013
8:24 pm

President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama to visit Israel within weeks

Israeli leaders welcome the news; details were agreed in a presidential phone call to Netanyahu last week; US advance teams already in Israel and West Bank

By Times of Israel staff

February 2, 2013
5:08 am

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., emerges after a unanimous vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become America's next top diplomat on Tuesday, Jan. 29 (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kerry to visit Israel, push peace talks

First trip as top US diplomat, a Middle East tour, may come within two weeks

By Michal Shmulovich

January 28, 2013
11:29 am

Former US envoy to Israel Martin Indyk (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-US envoy confirms ‘bad chemistry’ between Obama, Netanyahu

Martin Indyk says US president should visit Jerusalem, urges PM to try to rebuild relations with Washington and recognize that Abbas is ‘a partner’

By Times of Israel staff

January 24, 2013
5:50 pm

Jerusalem police prevent two PA officials holding press conference

Pair were arrested, then escorted back to West Bank

By Philip Podolsky

January 19, 2013
8:34 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to Russian immigrants during an election campaign stop in the port city of Ashdod, Wednesday (Photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I won’t capitulate

It would be easy to retreat to indefensible pre-67 lines and divide Jerusalem, prime minister says, ‘but we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my house’

By Times of Israel staff

January 16, 2013
6:23 pm

Discovering the hidden sides of Jerusalem

A summer in East Jerusalem inspires a workshop for Muslim, Christian and Jewish women

By Aviva Lev-David

January 16, 2013
10:28 am

The unregulated buildings of the Kufr Aqab neighborhood of Jerusalem, with the security barrier in the foreground (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Beyond the security barrier, building is booming

Jerusalem’s Kufr Aqab neighborhood, which is inside city limits, is a wild west of unregulated construction

By Karin Laub

January 15, 2013
8:48 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fed up, Obama says Israel ‘doesn’t know its own best interests’

US president, unhappy over settlement building, said to say he has come to expect such self-defeating behavior from Netanyahu

By Times of Israel staff

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: East Jerusalem

Jerusalem marathon spurs political saber-rattling

Friday’s race’s route through East Jerusalem sparks Palestinian call for iboycott

Harsh EU report likely won’t spell settlement sanctions

European consuls recommend reduced trade with Israelis over the Green Line, slam construction in East Jerusalem neighborhoods

Palestinians: Boycott Jerusalem marathon

PLO says route through eastern part of city is an attempt to assert Israeli sovereignty; municipality calls it a ‘symbol of co-existence’

Government investigators ignore ‘lying’ Palestinians

Judge excoriates Industry, Trade and Labor officials for racist attitudes toward suspects

Jerusalem mayor: No split city has ever worked

Nir Barkat tells the Conference of Presidents that construction in the capital’s eastern areas is in everyone’s interests

Jerusalem mayor says the city’s in the fast lane

Nir Barkat reports on his efforts to boost housing, predicts a million residents within 20 years, and says Hollywood and a Formula 1 race are on their way

US ambassador: Obama coming to Israel without demands

Israel will be first stop on president’s first foreign tour since reelection; Obama and PM have ‘urgent, complex’ issues to discuss: thwarting Iran, Syria’s chemical weapons, and peace talks

Obama to visit Israel within weeks

Israeli leaders welcome the news; details were agreed in a presidential phone call to Netanyahu last week; US advance teams already in Israel and West Bank

Kerry to visit Israel, push peace talks

First trip as top US diplomat, a Middle East tour, may come within two weeks

Ex-US envoy confirms ‘bad chemistry’ between Obama, Netanyahu

Martin Indyk says US president should visit Jerusalem, urges PM to try to rebuild relations with Washington and recognize that Abbas is ‘a partner’

Jerusalem police prevent two PA officials holding press conference

Pair were arrested, then escorted back to West Bank

Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I won’t capitulate

It would be easy to retreat to indefensible pre-67 lines and divide Jerusalem, prime minister says, ‘but we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my house’

Discovering the hidden sides of Jerusalem

A summer in East Jerusalem inspires a workshop for Muslim, Christian and Jewish women

Beyond the security barrier, building is booming

Jerusalem’s Kufr Aqab neighborhood, which is inside city limits, is a wild west of unregulated construction

Fed up, Obama says Israel ‘doesn’t know its own best interests’

US president, unhappy over settlement building, said to say he has come to expect such self-defeating behavior from Netanyahu

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