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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 364

Uri Lupolianski

Likud Minister Zeev Elkin (L) and Moshe Leon in the Knesset on March 26, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
June 7, 2018, 6:55 am
Could the Haredim snatch Jerusalem mayorship from sparring Likud hawks?
Minister Elkin’s looming battle with Moshe Lion, an associate of Liberman and Deri, could leave field wide open in capital’s October race
By Marissa Newman
Shai Nitzan. May 7, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2015, 9:51 pm
State prosecutor: Olmert sentence sends warning to public officials
Shai Nitzan hails decision to jail former PM for 18 months as ‘important milestone in fight against corruption’
By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015 (Gil Yohanan/POOL)
December 29, 2015, 9:41 am
Olmert to go to jail for 18 months after Supreme Court cuts sentence
Justices overturn one bribery conviction but uphold another for disgraced former prime minister, who was originally slated to serve 6 years for his part in the Holyland scandal
By Raoul Wootliff and Elie Leshem
Street life on today's Agrippas Street (Photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
June 6, 2015, 8:10 am
On Agrippas Street, Jerusalem built to the sky and feuding synagogues multiplied
One of the earliest Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City has been revived in recent years, but retains its historic charm
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Former Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday, March 31, 2014 (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
June 19, 2014, 9:41 am
Ex-Jerusalem mayor gets 6 years for taking bribes
Uri Lupolianski funneled hundreds of thousands into charity, was convicted alongside former PM Olmert in the Holyland affair
By ToI Staff
Former Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski in the Tel Aviv District Court on Monday, March 31, 2014 (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
June 9, 2014, 11:52 am
Judge postpones sentencing of former Jerusalem mayor
Cancer-stricken Uri Lupolianksi, convicted of accepting bribe in Holyland affair, hospitalized with pneumonia
By Spencer Ho
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Tel Aviv District Court, Monday, March 31, 2014 (AFP/Pool/Dan Balilty)
April 24, 2014, 9:21 pm
Prosecution to seek ‘about five years’ for Olmert
The former prime minister was found guilty in March of taking bribes in the so-called Holyland affair
By Gavriel Fiske
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv District Court, March 31, 2014, where he was found guilty of bribe-taking in the Holyland real estate scandal. (photo credit: Ido Erez/Pool/Flash90
April 2, 2014, 12:00 am
Olmert’s lawyers said preparing to appeal bribery conviction
Yossi Olmert says he loves his brother and was ‘dismayed’ by the verdict; analysts predict lengthy jail term
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox women entering a bus through the back door in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, in 2011 (Uri Lenz/Flash90/File)
October 16, 2013, 3:00 am
Haredi community breaking the culture of secrecy on domestic abuse
Two Israeli organizations, Yad Sarah and Bat Melech, are working with rabbis to provide resources to ultra-Orthodox women and couples
By Ben Sales
Outgoing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visits Arab students in a newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem, on December 13, 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 8, 2013, 6:54 am
One Jerusalem. Undivided. Open to all. Controlled by Israel
Mayor Nir Barkat says he’s repositioning the city to retake the role it fulfilled ‘amazingly well’ for a thousand years — where all peoples were equally accepted, but Jewish sovereignty was unquestioned
By David Horovitz
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat during an interview in his office (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90/File)
May 7, 2013, 2:34 pm
Barkat: Let the Palestinians rename Ramallah as ‘Jerusalem’
Jerusalem’s mayor rules out any notion of Palestinian rule in the capital, slams Olmert’s peace offer as a ‘terrible mistake,’ and says it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Jews can’t pray on the Temple Mount
By David Horovitz
Mayor of a 'normal' city: Nir Barkat finishes the half-marathon, during the International Jerusalem Marathon in March 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 11, 2013, 9:50 am
Jerusalem mayor says the city’s in the fast lane
Nir Barkat reports on his efforts to boost housing, predicts a million residents within 20 years, and says Hollywood and a Formula 1 race are on their way
By David Horovitz
Councilwoman Rachel Azaria (Courtesy Rachel Azaria)
September 20, 2012, 10:45 am
Want to get something done in Jerusalem? Ask a 9-month pregnant mother of three
I never intended to go into politics, says Rachel Azaria, arguably the city’s most energetic council member. Then she launches into a list of causes that could keep her busy for decades
By Jessica Steinberg
The state's witness, whose identity is under gag order, giving testimony in the Holyland trial last week. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
September 10, 2012, 2:14 pm
Avigdor Liberman told me Ehud Olmert was corrupt, state’s witness claims
In key testimony at trial of former PM, witness S.D. tells court that bribery was the only way for the Holyland real estate project to advance
By Aaron Kalman
The state's witness, whose identity is under gag order, giving testimony in the Holyland trial last week. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
August 7, 2012, 1:21 pm
State paying NIS 12,000 a month to key witness in Holyland case
Prosecution reveals financial arrangement, saying Jerusalem corruption affair ‘is a special case’
By Aaron Kalman
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