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Topic: Nir Barkat

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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 10, 2013
8:54 pm

Beitar fans at Teddy Stadium Sunday night. (Screenshot: Sport 1)

70 fans kicked out but no major incidents at Beitar match

Amid tight security, and to lots of booing, Chechen Muslim Gabriel Kadiev takes the field for Jerusalem team stained by racism

February 10, 2013
9:15 am

Fans of Beitar Jerusalem protest the decision to sign two Chechen Muslim players during training session in Jerusalem, on February 1, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid tight security, Beitar to play Arab team in Jerusalem

‘We need to take this criminal activity, even terrorism, against the team seriously,’ says Jerusalem mayor following clubhouse torching

By Gabe Fisher and Times of Israel staff

February 9, 2013
2:57 am

Former Chechen rebel and current head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Head of Chechnya to attend Beitar’s soccer game Sunday

Leader of Russian republic reportedly coming in light of fans’ racist outrage over club’s signing of two Muslim Chechen players

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

February 6, 2013
6:19 pm

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' on Saturday, Jan 26 (photo credit: Flash90)

AG pledges to eradicate racism from sports fields

Two Chechen soccer players at the center of recent Beitar Jerusalem controversy to be treated to visits from moms

By Adiv Sterman

January 31, 2013
1:46 am

Beitar Jerusalem head coach Eli Cohen, center, flanked by Gabriel Kadiev, left, and Zaur Sadayev at a press conference last month (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem signs first Muslim players

In wake of racist display by some fans, Mayor Nir Barkat says signing is ‘an ethical statement that goes out from Jerusalem to the world’

By Ron Friedman

January 21, 2013
7:04 pm

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on January 21, 2013, a day before the elections. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Party leaders hit symbolic spots in final elections push

Netanyahu visits iconic Likud leader’s museum, Bennett prays at Western Wall, and Livni talks with voters at a Tel Aviv mall

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 21, 2013
3:47 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat on January 21, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor endorses Netanyahu for PM

Prime minister ‘will continue to defend a united Jerusalem against all international pressures,’ Nir Barkat says

By Gabe Fisher

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

November 29, 2012
11:47 am

The ruins of the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, on November 28, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Historic synagogue to rise anew in Jerusalem

Tiferet Yisrael, which was destroyed by the Jordanian Army in 1948, will dominate Old City’s skyline

By Gabe Fisher

November 16, 2012
9:50 pm

Explosives experts examine the site where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Gush Etzion on Friday. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Jerusalemites shaken, not stirred, by ‘surprise’ siren

Shrill air-raid alarm follows traditional Sabbath siren, startling residents of the capital; Mayor Barkat urges locals to keep calm

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 11, 2012
11:34 am

Ultra-Orthodox and secular Jewish men face off in Jerusalem, 2008. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jerusalem’s secular minority battles to hold its own

Kiryat Yovel neighborhood is latest focus of capital’s culture war between Jewish conservatism and pluralism

By Lauren E. Bohn

November 5, 2012
5:07 pm

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat and Randolph Churchill, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, unveil a statue depicting the British WWII prime minister in a park overlooking Jerusalem's Old City in honour of 90th anniversary of Churchill's first visit to Israel. November 04, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90

Churchill bust unveiled in capital

Bronze statue of wartime British PM installed opposite the Old City in recognition of his support for a Jewish state

By Stuart Winer

October 23, 2012
4:28 pm

PM Netanyahu speaking in Gilo, October 23, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO)

Snubbing critics, PM vows to continue building Israel’s ‘undivided capital’

Ahead of visit by EU foreign policy chief, Netanyahu tours East Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo mere days after Europeans slam Israel for expanding ‘illegal’ settlements

By Raphael Ahren

October 21, 2012
12:53 pm

Israeli 24-year-old Tom Peled has commemorated his father's death from cancer by biking across the US to raise money for research. (Photo credit: Luca Seres/Bike for the Fight)

Israeli rider seeks to end ‘cycle’ of cancer deaths

Nearly 3,000 miles into his latest trip, Tom Peled hopes to bring disease victims and their families closer to a cure

By Tracy Frydberg

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