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Avi Goldberger surrounded by music, May 2026 (Roy Elman)
July 18, 2026, 8:44 am
Avi Goldberger, pub owner who brings everyone together
In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a 9th generation Jerusalemite who unites the city over a good drink
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Haredi men protest the arrest of draft dodgers on June 5, 2026, at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 6, 2026, 1:08 am
Hundreds of Haredi rioters try to break into Jerusalem police station, attack cops in Beit Shemesh
Riots on Shabbat, the day of rest, come days after ultra-Orthodox extremists attacked deputy chief justice’s home and held other anti-police protests over arrest of draft dodgers
By ToI Staff
A view of the entrance to the Russian Compound detention center in Jerusalem, March 12. 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 31, 2025, 5:27 pm
Police say autistic Arab Israeli teen detained on suspicion of aiding Hamas, ISIS
14-year-old allegedly tried to manufacture explosives, sent sensitive videos to terror contacts; boy’s mother insists he is innocent, urges his release and psychiatric evaulation
By Charlie Summers
View of the entrance to the detention center in the Russian Compound, In central Jerusalem, November 28, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 29, 2025, 12:23 pm
Autistic Arab Israeli teen arrested in West Bank, held in harsh conditions – lawyer
14-year-old boy in detention for over a week said to endure beatings by guards and inmates, after army arrests him on hidden evidence; prison service denies claims of abuse
By Charlie Summers
Palestinian youths raise national flags along with Hamas (green) and Hezbollah (yellow) banners as they sit atop a Red Cross bus carrying dozens of security prisoners set free by Israel in the early hours of January 20, 2025, in the West Bank town of Beitunia, on the outskirts of Ramallah. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
January 20, 2025, 6:24 am
Israel frees 90 Palestinian security prisoners, who are welcomed with Hamas flags
After 3 civilian hostages released from Gaza, Israel releases inmates, mostly female, to West Bank or East Jerusalem – first of up to 1,904 Palestinians to go free in phase one of deal
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File: View of the entrance to the police station at the Russian Compound, Jerusalem, June 22, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 26, 2023, 5:54 pm
Guard crushed by gate at Jerusalem police station, badly wounded
Man in his 20s got stuck when he attempted to pass through heavy mechanized vehicle gate as it opened early Friday
By Emanuel Fabian
An undated photo of the Notre Dame guest house, convent, and church, located just outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
October 8, 2022, 9:57 am
The night time is the right time for enchanting Jerusalem Lights Tour
The Holy City’s famed golden stones glow as dozens of the city’s historical sites are lit up at night. Through December, an illuminating guided bus tour tells their stories
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
View of the entrance to the detention center in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem, file (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 22, 2017, 10:30 pm
Five hurt in fire at Jerusalem detention center
Firefighters say blaze may have been started by a prisoner, who was one of those taken to hospital for treatment
By ToI Staff
Members of a Russian delegation including former Russian prime minister Sergey Vadimovich Stepahin (2R) cut a ribbon during the re-opening of the Sergei Compound in Jerusalemafter six years of renovation work, July 18, 2017, (AFP PHOTO/GALI TIBBON)
July 19, 2017, 4:47 am
Renovated Tsarist hostel reopens in Jerusalem
Sergei’s Courtyard, part of a 19th-century complex built with stone imported from Russia, has been renovated for Russian Orthodox pilgrims
By Jessica Steinberg and AFP
One of the restored buildings of Sergei's Courtyard, the late 1800s hostel for Russian pilgrims, now renovated to its former glory. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 13, 2017, 6:49 am
Mother Russia returns to grand duke’s Jerusalem compound
Sergei’s Courtyard, part of a 19th century complex built with stone imported from Russia, has been renovated for Russian Orthodox pilgrims; 22-room hotel opens next month
By Jessica Steinberg
Russian Orthodox at the Russian Compound (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 22, 2013, 9:41 am
From Russia with love from the tzar’s brother
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovitch built the Russian Compound in the late 1800’s for the pilgrims who were swarming to Jerusalem. Then the revolutionaries got him
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Yemin Moshe (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
June 29, 2013, 12:33 pm
Tranquil dwellings: The story of Mishkenot Sha’ananim
A New Orleans merchant bequeathed $60,000 to the Holy Land and chose Sir Moses Montefiore as his executor. The result: the first modern Jewish neighborhood outside the Old City
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Notre Dame and Jerusalem's Light Train (photo by Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 8, 2013, 6:35 am
Between east and west: Jerusalem’s No-Man’s Land
In November of ’48, Moshe Dayan and his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah a-Tal marked up a map. They didn’t intend to divide the city in two
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
February 9, 2013, 5:09 am
On the east-west shadowline: Jerusalem’s municipal complex
From Safra Square to Paratroopers Road, the area is an open book whose pages reveal fascinating phases in the city’s modern history
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Kidron at night (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 14, 2012, 12:35 pm
At night, Jerusalem the golden becomes Jerusalem the magical
Dozens of historic and magnificent sites, the Old City walls prominent among them, are artistically lit from dusk to dawn
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
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