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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 367

Nahlaot

Barashi street in Jerusalem, named for Yitzhak Barashi, a Kurdistani-born rabbi who fought in Israel's War of Independence. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 11, 2020, 6:34 am
How Kurdish Jews made their way to Jerusalem, shocked Herzl, began to thrive
A chance meeting with British geologists spurred many of Kurdistan’s Jews to move to Israel in the early 1900s, where they made an impression on its founders
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
A construction team from Tenufa Bakehila - Building Hope, a nonprofit organization founded to help low-income families fix and renovate their homes (Courtesy Jordan Polevoy)
October 10, 2018, 10:10 am
With extreme makeovers, nonprofit rebuilds families through their homes
Building Hope, an organization that combines house renovation with social services, has fixed 4,400 homes of needy Israelis, and wants to expand its activities
By Michael Harel
Swastikas painted on the walls of synagogue in the central Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot, June 21, 2017. (Jerusalem Police)
June 21, 2017, 5:21 pm
Suspect nabbed for swastikas in Jerusalem synagogue
Police says man also confessed to carrying out similar crime in northern part of city recently
By ToI Staff
Swastikas painted on the walls of synagogue in the central Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot, June 21, 2017. (Jerusalem Police)
June 21, 2017, 1:53 pm
Swastikas found painted in Jerusalem synagogue, apartments
Vandalism discovered in capital’s Nahlaot neighborhood
By ToI Staff
The proposed design of the Jerusalem Arts Campus, slated to open in 2020 (Courtesy UJA-Federation of New York)
May 8, 2017, 4:46 pm
Cornerstone laid for $50 million Jerusalem arts campus
Bezalel Street site designed to house four academic institutions and host performances
By Jessica Steinberg
The storefront of Hahummus shel Tehina, a Nahlaot eatery (Courtesy Hummus shel Tehina)
November 28, 2016, 4:32 pm
‘Open for Shabbat’ cafe project gets shut down
Pluralistic Jerusalem program, threatened by the rabbinate, postpones its planned get-together
By Jessica Steinberg
Police are confronted by costumed party-goers during a Purim party in Jerusalem in March 2016 (Channel 10 News)
August 30, 2016, 4:21 am
Wanted fugitives: A clown, a sailor & old St. Nick
Police are searching for 3 costumed Purim revelers who assaulted officers during a Jerusalem party in March
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a police officer holding a pair of handcuffs. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
June 5, 2016, 1:09 pm
Jerusalem serial child molester sentenced to 19 years
Menahem Bitton convicted in plea bargain after admitting to hundreds of sex acts with young boys
By Stuart Winer
Ricka Razel (second from right) and her brothers outside their childhood home in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem (Courtesy Ricka Razel Van-Leeuwen)
March 21, 2016, 11:01 am
In musical comeback, Razel sister goes solo
Ahead of debut performance to all-women audience, Ricka Razel Van-Leeuwen talks about life after break-up of popular 1980s sibling band
By Jessica Steinberg
Mural of Abraham Joshua Heschel by Solomon Souza in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, February 25, 2016. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
February 29, 2016, 10:53 am
Young artist turns Jerusalem’s market into gallery of famous faces
Mahane Yehuda comes to life on the Sabbath as colorful murals of historical and contemporary figures appear on shops’ closed shutters
By Renee Ghert-Zand and Luke Tress
Israeli police at the scene where a Jewish man stabbed an Arab man in the southern city of Dimona on Friday, October 9, 2015. Three other Arab men were also injured in the attack. (Dimona Police Department)
October 9, 2015, 10:29 am
Israeli youth stabs four Arabs in Dimona attack
Two of the victims seriously wounded, two others suffer light injuries; attack follows rash of stabbings against Israelis
By Judah Ari Gross and Elie Leshem
Detail of a wall painting in the women's section of the Ades Synagogue, painted by Yaakov Stern in 1912. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
April 20, 2015, 8:23 am
Century after artist’s death, Jerusalem synagogue restores mural masterpiece
Yaakov Stark died penniless of tuberculosis in 1915; now his early Zionist art at the Ades Synagogue is on show in all its glory
By Ilan Ben Zion
Natalie Portman (R) in Jerusalem's Nahlaot neighborhood directing a scene from 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' February 11, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
February 12, 2014, 7:21 pm
Natalie Portman’s Nahlaot filming passes off without protests
Although some ultra-Orthodox locals had objected, Nahlaot shoot of ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ scenes proceeding as scheduled
By ToI Staff
Natalie Portman (Courtesy)
February 11, 2014, 1:22 pm
Haredim protest Natalie Portman filming in Jerusalem
Residents pen letter to municipality as neighborhood graffiti denounces ‘foreign invasion’
By Spencer Ho
A look at the city from the Chords Bridge (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2013, 10:49 am
Take a ride to a view
A day’s journey around Jerusalem’s scenic points, from bridges and rooftops to window frames and overlooks
By Leeor Bronis and Nicole Levin
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