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People visit the opening of the 100th Hebrew Book Week at Sarona in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 10, 2026, 10:32 pm
Hebrew Book Week celebrates centennial in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Amid declining reading rates nationwide, annual book event opens in both cities following one-day delay caused by Iranian missile fire
By Jessica Steinberg
Sharon Dinur, head of the preservation department at the Jerusalem Municipality
March 17, 2026, 5:55 am
Pre-state vaults and ancient cisterns provide shelter for Jerusalemites again under siege
In a city where thousands of buildings lack safe rooms offering protection from Iranian rockets, many residents run to improvised spots rich with historical significance
By Zev Stub
Malka Greenblatt (courtesy).
February 26, 2024, 10:20 pm
Meet the Haredi entrepreneur running for a historic seat on the Jerusalem city council
Malka Greenblatt, who ‘hates politics but loves getting things done,’ will be the first ultra-Orthodox woman to serve on the council if elected on Tuesday
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
People walk between hundreds of beds corresponding to the number of Israelis abducted by the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside Jerusalem City Hall on October 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2023, 10:00 am
In Jerusalem, hundreds of empty beds and cribs bring home enormity of hostage crisis
Family members of Israelis held captive in Gaza or missing since the October 7 onslaught gather in the capital to mark another day without their loved ones and receive solace
By Jessica Steinberg
Photographic portraits of Holocaust survivors, part of The Lonka Project exhibit in Safra Square in Jerusalem, opening April 8, 2021, Yom HaShaoh, Heroes and Martyrs Remembrance Day (Courtesy The Lonka Project)
April 6, 2021, 12:54 pm
Images of Holocaust survivors displayed at Jerusalem city hall
The Lonka Project, a traveling exhibition of works by 275 photographers, will remain at Safra Square through the summer
By Jessica Steinberg
Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 7, 2018, 3:00 pm
Jerusalem workers strike called off as layoffs rescinded
Officials in municipality and ministries of finance and interior agree to 45-day grace period for talks on ways to make up capital’s chronic budget shortfalls
By ToI Staff
Shoppers walk past piles of garbage left by striking city workers, at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, on January 7, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 7, 2018, 12:30 pm
Jerusalem city workers go on open-ended strike over budget fight, layoffs
Garbage piling up as municipal employees object to firing of 2,150 workers amid battle between mayor and Finance Ministry
By ToI Staff
Photo distributed by the Jerusalem City Hall demonstrating how Emek Refaim Street will look with a new planned light rail line. (Jerusalem City Hall)
December 1, 2016, 5:35 pm
Jerusalem City Hall announces light rail line to run on Emek Refaim St.
Mayor tells worried locals Blue Line will improve quality of life, economy, won’t harm character of German Colony neighborhood
By ToI Staff
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, July 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 16, 2016, 8:07 pm
Jerusalem mayor petitions court to raze illegal homes in E. Jerusalem
After High Court nixes request to delay Amona outpost demolition, Nir Barkat announces new policy to destroy unauthorized Arab construction
By Alexander Fulbright
Homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo on December 17, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
November 11, 2016, 9:14 am
After Trump win, officials seek Jerusalem building spree
City Hall official says he is ready to approve 7,000 housing units in neighborhoods over Green Line
By ToI Staff
File: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, February 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 21, 2016, 5:01 pm
Bodegas in central Jerusalem ordered to close on Shabbat
Mayor Barkat orders enforcement of long-ignored municipal bylaws forbidding commercial activity on day of rest
By Raoul Wootliff
Safra Square Light Rail stop (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 14, 2015, 5:15 am
France says ad calling Jerusalem site ‘Palestinian territory’ a mistake
Consulate backtracks after post about job opening lists French Institute as located in Palestinian lands
By ToI Staff
The Jewish neighborhood of Ma'ale Hazeitim, at the heart of the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, on the Mount of Olives, May 2011 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
August 10, 2015, 10:17 pm
East Jerusalem enclave to get $3 m. Jewish ritual bath
Mikveh would service tiny neighborhood of 100 Israeli families on Mount of Olives; city dismisses accusations of overspending
By ToI Staff
Israeli police at the scene where a Palestinian man stabbed a 27-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, near Jerusalem City Hall, February 22, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2015, 11:34 am
IDF raids home of Jerusalem knife attacker
Victim’s condition improves; Barkat, who subdued stabber, visits victim in the hospital
By ToI Staff
People hold placards during a remembrance ceremony in Jerusalem City Hall on January 11, 2015, in honor of the 17 victims of the three-day Islamist killing spree in Paris. The Hebrew sign (R) reads "Israel is Charlie" (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 11, 2015, 5:31 pm
1,000 attend solidarity rally in Jerusalem
New immigrants from France join with city officials in show of support for French nation and its Jews
By Stuart Winer
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