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This handout photo released by police on June 4, 2023, shows a canister of pepper spray allegedly found in the backpack of a Jerusalem resident accused of stabbing an 11-year-old boy on the city's outskirts. (Israel Police)
June 4, 2023, 11:54 am
2 arrested for stabbing 11-year-old on Jerusalem outskirts
Police track down adult suspects, one of whom was found with Mace, after boy suffers stab wound to chest in abandoned village of Lifta
By ToI Staff
View of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, December 17, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 16, 2022, 11:32 pm
Plan shelved to turn historic Arab village at Jerusalem entrance into luxury housing
Mayor Moshe Lion wants to preserve the village of Lifta and transform it into a World Heritage Site
By Sue Surkes
Reches Lavan, or White Ridge, west of Jerusalem. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
June 25, 2020, 6:05 am
Will housing, hotels, highway devastate Jerusalem’s pastoral White Ridge hill?
National committee to discuss appeal Thursday against plans to build 5,000+ homes in unspoiled area, as city tries to meet national targets for housing to match population growth
By Sue Surkes
Hikers pour soap into the Lifta spring (screen capture: Channel 12)
June 7, 2020, 4:00 am
Hikers turn natural spring outside Jerusalem into a bubble bath
Authorities say they’ll clean up Lifta pool, investigate incident; same thing reportedly happened elsewhere 3 weeks before
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)
April 24, 2019, 6:08 pm
Yair Netanyahu feuds with Arab Twitter users over Israel’s rights to the land
PM’s son tweets multiple posts about region’s history, including some dubious claims, suggests Palestinians ‘go to Jordan’
By ToI Staff
View of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, December 17, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 27, 2017, 5:45 am
State buries survey on ancient Jerusalem village slated for development
Activist says officials afraid archaeological findings on Lifta will help preservationists fighting plan to put luxury homes in hillside hamlet frozen in time
By Dov Lieber
A picture taken from inside an old house in Palestinian village of Lifta which was abandoned during fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, shows the bridge for a new train line on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on October 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
October 22, 2017, 6:18 pm
Frozen-in-time village Lifta added to list of endangered heritage sites
Abandoned in 1948, Jerusalem-area Arab village among 25 locations on biennial spotlight meant to draw attention to cultural sites at risk around world
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An old house is seen in the Palestinian village of Lifta which was abandoned during fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on October 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
August 23, 2017, 5:51 pm
Jerusalem freezes plan to build luxury villas on ancient village
Opponents of construction in Lifta say theirs is only a temporary victory, as city hall is keen to push plan forward
By Dov Lieber
View of empty houses at the Arab village of Lifta, on January 10, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
July 2, 2017, 12:18 pm
Remarkably kept, ancient village faces future as another kind of ghost town
Lifta offers a unique insight into Jerusalem life as far back as the First Temple period. The city intends to transform it into a new luxury neighborhood. An improbable coalition of Jews and Arabs, with all manner of contradictory goals, is seeking to prevent this
By Dov Lieber
Mural on Agrippas Street (Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 12, 2015, 8:40 am
A neglected Jerusalem neighborhood illuminated by street art
Fabulous murals and other creative works on walls, poles, balconies, doors and shops have helped transform the streets around the Mahane Yehuda market
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
One of the artists performing in Frontline, during the Jerusalem Season of Culture (Courtesy Jerusalem Season of Culture)
July 24, 2015, 12:45 pm
Unhindered by war, Jerusalem looks to inject culture into city
From Aramaic heavy metal and Talmud punk to the abandoned Palestinian village of Lifta, city festival celebrates diversity
By Luke Tress
Mitzpeh Naftoah in the background (right) as seen from Lifta at the Western entrance to Jerusalem, April 13, 2009. (Flickr/Ron Almog, CC BY 2.0)
June 9, 2015, 9:48 am
Jerusalem mayor fumes over plan to build in nature reserve
Nir Barkat slams zoning authority for proposal to destroy park that houses one of Israel’s largest concentration of gazelles
By Avi Lewis
Israeli firefighter airplanes try to extinguish a large fire raging in the hills outside Jerusalem, causing residents in the area to evacuate their homes, on July 2, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
July 2, 2014, 4:37 pm
Rash of fires breaks out in hills near Jerusalem
Emergency personnel gain control over flames Wednesday night, after blazes threaten homes, factories in Even Sapir, Aminadav, Lifta and Tzur Hadassah
By Lazar Berman
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