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'Hopefully, this will make my commute much faster'
Jerusalem Light Rail unveils largest extension in 15 years, with new ‘Green Line’
By Zev Stub
Route connects Malha neighborhood in southern part of capital to city center, spanning 7 kilometers and 13 stations, with plans to reach Mount Scopus by end of year
People at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, July 21, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Revamp of Jerusalem’s historic Mahane Yehuda market aims to bring it up to date without selling out
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Jeffery Woolf at the Montefiore windmill in Jerusalem, July 2026 (Yitzchak Ledee)
August 23, 2026, 6:02 am
Jeffrey Woolf, the story keeper of Jerusalem
On this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a historian who followed his grandmother’s stories home
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
A smashed window at Jerusalem's Kol HaNeshama, a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem that was vandalized on August 14,2026. (Kol HaNeshama via X)
August 17, 2026, 1:37 am
Jerusalem Reform synagogue vandalized over Shabbat: ‘Won’t dim our light’
Kol HaNeshama says no congregants were on the premises during attack; MK Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi, slams the vandals as ‘incited hooligans’
By Noam Lehmann
Elisheva Levy at Kumkum Tea House, 2026 (Yitzchak Ledee)
August 16, 2026, 6:01 am
Elisheva Levy, Jerusalem’s fairy godmother
On this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman who has made a home for everyone in her whimsical British tea house
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Secular activists hold up placards as they stage a counter-protest against Haredi men at Cafe Basimta in Jerusalem, on August 15, 2026. The Hebrew sign reads "We will die rather than drink instant," a play on a slogan used by Haredi men against the IDF draft. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
August 15, 2026, 6:56 pm
Door to Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat vandalized as Haredim protest for 7th week
Scheduled opening of Basimta delayed by some 40 minutes after masked perpetrator appears to glue its lock overnight; counter-protesters, secularist MKs show support for cafe
By ToI Staff
Rocker Aviv Geffen will perform after the screening of 'Aviv,' Tomer Heymann's documentary about the musician, at the National Library's Docu.Text festival, August 16-20, 2026 (Daniel Aharony)
August 14, 2026, 1:26 pm
Documentary film fest to open at National Library for 11th year
Docu.Text, running August 16-20, will feature 25 films, with premieres, filmmaker talks and live performances by Aviv Geffen and other Israeli artists
By Jessica Steinberg
Jack Ukeles (Courtesy)
August 13, 2026, 11:15 am
Jack Ukeles, who used data and idealism to shape Jewish communal life, dies at 88
New Yorker turned Jerusalemite was in first graduating class of Bar Ilan University, studied changing face of American Jewry, and spoke out passionately against extremism in Israel
By Gary Rosenblatt
Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)
August 9, 2026, 11:17 am
25 years ago, the Sbarro bombing opened a wound in Israel that still hasn’t healed
Suicide attack at Jerusalem pizzeria killed 16, including 8 children; a quarter of a century later, a family reckons with its ongoing fight for justice — and a new wave of grief after October 7
By Ben Sales
Marcus James enjoys his coffee at Café Al Mufti in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, May 2026.(Sarah Tuttle-Singer)
August 9, 2026, 9:14 am
Marcus James, the ‘spiritual mayor’ of Jerusalem
In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a SoCal boy who found his new home in the Holy City
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against a cafe operating on Shabbat and clash with Israeli police in central Jerusalem, August 8, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
August 8, 2026, 3:09 pm
For the sixth week, Haredi protesters, police clash outside Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat
Police set up barricades to prevent a recurrence of demonstrators forcing their way into Basimta cafe; hundreds of secular activists rally in support
By ToI Staff
Agam Tsarafi, left, and Shilat Houta, right, suspects in the July murder of Benayahu Razi in Jerusalem, and Linor Sasson, suspected in aiding them, are brought to a court hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, August 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
August 7, 2026, 2:27 pm
Six, including four minors, charged with murdering teen in a Jerusalem Airbnb
Defendants allegedly assaulted Benayahu Razi and his friend with knives, brass knuckles, a club and a kitchen mallet; cops say one defendant was romantically involved with victim
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Jewish assailants throw stones, spit on entrance to Saint James Monastery in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, in the early hours of August 2, 2026. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 2, 2026, 5:16 pm
Police arrest six, mostly minors, for spitting on Armenian patriarchate in Jerusalem
Video of overnight incident shows assailants hurling rocks at wall of Old City compound; allegedly told Armenian woman, ‘Get back inside, you daughter of a whore!’
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: A Superbus driver waits for passengers at the entrance to Jerusalem, August 1, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
August 2, 2026, 1:30 pm
Teenagers allegedly beat an Arab bus driver unconscious overnight in Jerusalem
Driver says he lost four of his teeth in attack, passed out and awoke to ‘faces full of hate’; police launch probe amid spate of similar attacks on Arab bus drivers in capital
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Meir Charash on one of his bike rides, 2020 (Courtesy)
August 1, 2026, 3:57 pm
Meir Charash: Cyclist, father, and advocate who keeps on riding
On this week’s Peoples of Israel, we meet a man who measures his life not by the lack of bumps in the road, but his choice to stay the path
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrate against a cafe operating on Shabbat and clash with Israeli police, while secular protesters hold a counter-demonstration in support of the cafe in central Jerusalem, August 1, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 1, 2026, 1:12 pm
Haredi protesters try to force their way into Jerusalem cafe open on Shabbat
Police said to use batons to disperse demonstrators after they clash with secular patrons, attempt to enter Cafe Basimta, amid largest turnout since 5-week campaign began
By ToI Staff
A group of ultra-Orthodox males harass several off-duty soldiers walking in Jerusalem, July 30, 2026. (Screenshots/Yaakov Hershkovitz via X)
July 31, 2026, 6:05 am
Off-duty soldiers, Border Police attacked in Jerusalem by dozens of Haredi men
Assailants were attending rally celebrating the release of 63 people arrested during recent attack on home of deputy Supreme Court chief to protest the arrest of draft dodgers
By ToI Staff
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