West Jerusalem would be the capital of Israel while east Jerusalem would be the capital of a Palestinian state Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently told reporters in Jordan.
According to a report two weeks ago in Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, “Abbas said that during his talks with Olmert, ‘it was agreed that east...
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In the burning Jerusalem early summer sun, friends, guests and representatives of KKL-JNF and JNF USA assembled in late June at the foot of the 9/11 memorial in Arazim Valley for a ceremony honoring the donor, Ed Blank, whose contribution made this site possible.
Ed Blank was very moved to see the completed commemorative site...
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Jerusalem has been voted the best city in Africa and the Middle East by the readers of Travel+Leisure, widely considered America's leading travel magazine.
Cape Town took second place, with Tel Aviv in third. The last time Jerusalem won was in 2000. This year was the first time Tel Aviv appeared in the top three.
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The 27th Jerusalem International Film Festival, which starts Thursday, will showcase an eclectic mix of feature, documentary, short, avant-garde and animated films at various locations around the city.
The festival will open at the Sultan's Pool with Roselyne Bosch's The Precipice, a film about the tragic Vel d'hiv roundup of July 16, 1942, the greatest...
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A 22-year-old patient who has spent the past nine years attached to a respirator at Jerusalem’s Alyn Hospital started breathing on his own for the first time following a breakthrough surgery at Hadassah University Medical Center. “This is an important breakthrough that gives hope to spinal cord victims,” Dr. Be’eri said last week.
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Mayor Nir Barkat sent a stiff letter in response to a statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling the Jerusalem Municipality's plans for an archeological part in the neighborhood of Silwan illegal. Jerusalem Dispatch presents the full text of Mayor Barkat's letter to Ki-moon.
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An American-born Jewish-Israeli reflects on how she has been able to weave the multicultural fabric of Jerusalem into her daily life. As a senior lecturer in a college with a mixed Jewish and Arab student body and staff, she highlights the opportunities for inspiring exchanges amongst the students and the lecturers, and talks about...
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Tonight, at 8:05 local time, Mayor Nir Barkat will turn off the lights around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem as a show of solidarity with Gilad Shalit. Friday marks four years since Iran-backed Hamas took Israeli-French soldier Gilad Shalit hostage.
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This is the beginning of a revolution," said Mayor Nir Barkat on Sunday as he unveiled a plan to make housing in the city more affordable. As part of the new plan, the Municipality will demand that contactors apply the affordable housing policy to each construction project brought to the Municipality for approval. In...
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The branch manager of a bank in Jerusalem was arrested on suspicions he stole NIS 25,000 from the account of a Holocaust survivor living in the capital.
Under police questioning the suspect confessed, saying he had fallen into financial straits. “I can’t believe he did this,” said 92-year-old...
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