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Sondos Alhoot, head of the Kol Toshaveha list, running for Jerusalem city council in the 2024 municipal elections, in a meeting with voters, February 19, 2024 (Ittay Flescher, courtesy)
February 24, 2024, 7:15 am
A young Arab woman seeks to make history by being voted into Jerusalem city council
In sit-down with Jewish voters, Sondos Alhoot speaks of her efforts to break a decades-long election boycott by the city’s Arab population and bring the two communities closer
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Shabus organizers stand outside Jerusalem's Lev Smadar Theater, a secular Jerusalemite hangout on Saturdays, holding signs that read, 'There is a solution, Shabus' (photo credit: Courtesy Shabus)
May 1, 2015, 9:02 pm
Jerusalem group launches ‘Shabus’ transport service
Private co-op aims to provide secular Israelis with bus routes on the Sabbath, challenging a 1947 prohibition
By AFP and Jessica Steinberg
Shabus organizers stand outside Jerusalem's Lev Smadar Theater, a secular Jerusalemite hangout on Saturdays, holding signs that read, 'There is a solution, Shabus' (photo credit: Courtesy Shabus)
February 22, 2015, 5:24 am
A bus cooperative for Sabbath riders
A group of Jerusalemites are putting the final touches on Shabus, an alternative for secular residents
By Jessica Steinberg
Construction in the neighborhood of Har Homa in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 24, 2014, 7:18 pm
243 homes okayed in Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem
Approvals granted for homes in Ramot; municipality says tens of thousands of homes will be built throughout city for Jews and Arabs in coming years
By AFP and ToI Staff
A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 12, 2014, 7:24 pm
Israel approves 200 new homes in Jewish E. Jerusalem area
Planning committee gives preliminary okay to construction in Ramot, and another 174 homes in Arab neighborhoods
By AP
Wire netting covers one of the homes sold to Jews in Silwan, East Jerusalem, October 2, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
October 10, 2014, 2:58 am
Palestinian allegedly killed for selling Silwan homes to Jews
Man stabbed in apparent family feud; settlers say killing unrelated to Israelis moving into volatile Jerusalem neighborhood
By ToI Staff
Border police protect dozens of Jews as they move into sites in Silwan, East Jerusalem, on September 30, 2014. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)
September 30, 2014, 2:35 pm
Dozens of Jews move into Arab East Jerusalem locale
One policeman lightly injured as Silwan residents throw rocks and fireworks in protest over new neighbors
By Gavriel Fiske
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem, in 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
September 7, 2014, 2:03 am
Jerusalem mayor fires right-wing councilman
Nir Barkat removes Aryeh King after he filed a court petition against the city’s plan to build new Arab homes
By Lazar Berman
A bird's eye view of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 4, 2014, 9:12 am
Jerusalem approves plan to build 2,200 homes for Arabs
Mayor Barkat and allies push measure through committee over vociferous opposition from right-wing council members
By Spencer Ho
YES Planet CEO Mooky Greidinger speaking at the official announcement of the Sherover Cultural Center in Abu Tor (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 30, 2014, 8:49 pm
16-screen movie theater to open in Jerusalem, on Shabbat too
From summer 2015, YES Planet complex near Abu Tor will also feature musical performances, art spaces, restaurants and cafes
By Jessica Steinberg
Laborers work at a housing construction site in the Har Homa neighborhood in southeast Jerusalem on October 27, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 19, 2014, 12:48 pm
Israel approves 186 new East Jerusalem homes
City councilman says construction planned for Pisgat Ze’ev and Har Homa neighborhoods, which are beyond the Green Line
By AFP and ToI Staff
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 25, 2013, 11:01 pm
After battle, capital to name street for iconoclast Leibowitz
City pushes through measure to honor controversial professor, defying religious politicians unhappy with statements about Shas spiritual leader
By Adiv Sterman and Ron Friedman
Young Arab girls seen studying during a lesson in the newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem in December 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
August 28, 2012, 11:00 pm
Civil rights groups charge officials don’t have handle on East Jerusalem school rolls
More than 20,000 pupils are unaccounted for and over 1,000 classroom are still missing despite High Court order, according to new report
By Raphael Ahren
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