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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 562

street names

An activist places a sticker honoring Hannah Senesh over a street sign named for Hans Kloepfer, a prominent doctor and writer who welcomed Hitler's annexation of Austria and joined the Nazi party, on November 8, 2021, in Vienna. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2021, 11:39 pm
On eve of Kristallnacht, activists ‘rename’ Vienna streets honoring antisemites
Protest, publicized by the Austrian Union of Jewish Students, sees street signs named for Nazis and SS members pasted over with a temporary homage to resistance leaders
By Yaakov Schwartz
A plan for the new square near the soon-to-be opened US Embassy in Jerusalem which the capital's mayor will name in honor of US President Donald Trump, May 8,2018. (Erez Shani)
May 8, 2018, 12:29 pm
Jerusalem traffic circle to be named for US and Trump
Mayor says location near new embassy will be named to show love and respect for the president and the American people
By Sue Surkes
New Yerushalmim councilmember Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat, created a campaign to name more streets in Jerusalem for women (Courtesy Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat)
January 30, 2018, 4:16 pm
Jerusalem alderman wants more streets named for women
Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat reaches out to the public for suggestions in bid to rectify skew favoring men
By Jessica Steinberg
Palestinians walk past a mural depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Shati Refugee Camp, in Gaza City, on November 7, 2013 (AP/Adel Hana)
March 5, 2017, 10:29 pm
Netanyahu says Arafat street sign in Arab village removed
PM says no road in Israel will bear ex-PLO leader’s name, but ‘all doors are open’ to Israeli Arabs
By AFP and ToI Staff
A picture taken on November 9, 2016 shows a large printed photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hanging outside a door leading to a recreation of the small bedroom where he spent his final years at the new Arafat Museum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
March 4, 2017, 9:51 pm
Netanyahu vows to remove Arafat street sign in Arab village
Following complaints by injured IDF veterans, PM says no road in Israel will bear ex-PLO leader’s name
By Alexander Fulbright
New Beruryah Street sign erected in Jerusalem in January 2017 highlights Beruryah's righteousness and religious scholarship, as well as her being the wife of the Mishna's Rabbi Meir. (Facebook)
January 12, 2017, 1:04 pm
Jerusalem street signs get feminist makeover
Historical women recognized for being more than just wives and mothers
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 6, 2013, 6:28 am
Jerusalem mayor shelves plan to name street after Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Resistance to move by religious and right-wing city council members leads Nir Barkat to postpone vote
By Ron Friedman
Vadim Rabinovitch at the ceremony naming a square in his honor in April 2012. (photo credit: screen grab from YouTube)
May 31, 2012, 12:07 pm
Why was Old City square named after Ukrainian oligarch, 500 years before his time?
Bylaws reserve such honors for those who died before 1500; Vadim Rabinovitch paid for a $3 million gold menorah that sits in ‘his’ square
By Hillary Zaken
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