Jerusalem municipality

An Orthodox Jewish woman (left) prays alongside a young Jewish woman wearing tefillin at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

January 27, 2019, 4:31 pm

Women of the Wall get approval for women’s tefillin stand in Jerusalem

City authorizes move after months-long battle, but not at requested location, leading rights group to accuse it of discrimination

By Michael Bachner

Snow falls in Efrat in the Gush Etzion settlement block in the West Bank on January 16, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

January 16, 2019, 10:51 pm

Snow dusts Jerusalem area as winter storm wallops Israel

Capital sees flurry for first time in years, with several roads closed as forecasts predict accumulation of 10 cm in Eztion bloc and other high elevation areas

By TOI staff

Route 4370, with a wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic, January 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

January 10, 2019, 3:47 pm

In first, Israel opens road with wall dividing Israeli and Palestinian traffic

Israel says new route eases traffic, strengthens connection between Jerusalem and settlements; Palestinians say it ’embodies barefaced discrimination’

By TOI staff

Israelis at a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, on Saturday, November 01, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

December 26, 2018, 6:02 am

At Deri’s request, J’lem city hall targeted restaurants open on Shabbat – report

Interior minister said to have asked municipality to compile list of businesses legally operating on Jewish Sabbath and detail how they could be fined for unrelated transgressions

By TOI staff

Police accompany bulldozers demolishing storefronts in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, November 21, 2018. (Courtesy Ir Amim)

November 24, 2018, 11:38 pm

EU condemns Israeli demolitions in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp

Europe also criticizes decision to build in capital neighborhoods beyond the Green Line, saying such construction undermines two-state solution

By TOI staff

November 21, 2018, 4:20 pm

Jerusalem municipality demolishes 21 businesses in Shuafat refugee camp

Activist groups says owners given just 12 hours’ notice; police say businesses leveled at request of residents due to traffic congestion

By TOI staff

Jerusalem mayoral candidates Ofer Berkovich (L) and Moshe Lion during an October 21, 2018 debate ahead of the Jerusalem Municipality elections on October 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November 16, 2018, 5:38 pm

Three days after Jerusalem mayor vote, Berkovitch calls Lion to concede

Lion was declared winner on Wednesday night after all the final 9,000 provisional ballots were counted, putting him 3,765 votes ahead

By TOI staff and Marissa Newman

Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion celebrates his victory with supporters at his campaign headquarters, after winning the Jerusalem municipal elections on November 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November 14, 2018, 10:06 pm

Moshe Lion clinches Jerusalem mayoral win by 3,765 votes

Candidate garners enough provisional ballots from soldiers, others to put him out of rival Berkovitch’s reach and become next leader of capital

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on August 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

November 13, 2018, 11:35 pm

Busy with Gaza violence, Netanyahu misses vote for Jerusalem mayor

PM, who refused to endorse either Moshe Lion or Ofer Berkovitch, spent the entire day at army headquarters in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a swearing in ceremony for the Rabbinate Council at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

November 12, 2018, 5:40 am

Haredi minister apologizes for implying secular Jerusalem candidate is the devil

Shas leader Aryeh Deri says his comments on Ofer Berkovitch were misunderstood; he was merely referring to divisions in the religious community

By TOI staff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks at a Shas party event in Jerusalem marking the Sukkot on September 27, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

November 11, 2018, 5:15 pm

Haredi minister appears to liken secular Jerusalem candidate to devil

In blistering attack on Ofer Berkovitch, Shas leader Aryeh Deri says ‘Satan’ calling up his troops; Hitorerut faction says increasing security for leader amid threats

By TOI staff

Ramadan Dabash, a Palestinian resident of Sur Baher running for Jerusalem's city council, at his second home in Beit Hanina, July 2018 (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

November 7, 2018, 12:58 am

Palestinian list fails to win any seats on Jerusalem city council

The ‘Jerusalem, My Town’ party led by Ramadan Dabash garnered only some 3,000 votes — 1.2% of total; needed more than twice as many

By Adam Rasgon

An Israeli woman votes at a polling station in the center of Jerusalem during local elections on October 30, 2018. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)

October 30, 2018, 4:29 pm

In Jerusalem, a city divided on its next mayor until the bitter end

Capital contest appears wide open and headed to a runoff, with voters split over whom they support — and who they think will win

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative: A Palestinian man walks past Israeli police officers at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on December 2, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

October 28, 2018, 10:51 am

Palestinians debate value of boycotting Tuesday’s Jerusalem municipal elections

Some residents yearn for influence and better city services, while others fear participation would reinforce Israeli claims to city’s eastern half

By Majeda El Batsh and Steve Weizman

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, center right, arrives for a tour in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Beit Hanina and Shuafat. October 22, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

October 24, 2018, 10:44 am

Jerusalem mayor makes rare visit to East Jerusalem refugee camp

Nir Barkat walks the streets of Shuafat, meets city sanitation workers who enter Palestinian neighborhood for the first time, as part of plan to replace UNRWA in capital

By TOI staff