Jerusalem current events

Jerusalem highlights: September 18-24

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Kosher nibbles – Latin-Mediterranean style (see Friday).
‘The Last Moon’ (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: August 21-27

Jewish worshippers and visitors gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem a day before the eve of Tisha B’Av, July 21, 2026.

Grapevine: Onward August

A recent picture of Yad Kennedy.

Jerusalem highlights: July 31-August 6


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Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

The Mifletzet sculpture in Kiryat Hayovel, from which the pub in question got its name

Grapevine: Azza Zaza

A round-up of current events in Jerusalem.

Azza Zaza

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Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

Runners in the 2016 Jerusalem Marathon jog uphill ahead of some 25,000 others who took part in the event

Jerusalem Unmasked

To what degree do people in Jerusalem take advantage of Purim as an opportunity to transcend social borders?

A Purim street party in Jerusalem’s Nahlaot neighborhood.

Jerusalem in chaos

A ‘garbage mountain’ at the Mahaneh Yehuda shuk, a result of the municipal strike in January 2017.

Corridors of Power: Tale of a lost city

All sides in the struggle over the strike agree: We’re talking about Israel’s largest city, but first and foremost, also its poorest.

Priestly Blessing at The Western Wall

Egged, mon amour

Elad Malka has opened a Facebook page titled Egged Watch, where he invites residents to detail specific cases of bus service problems in the city.

Egged bus

Abbas invites Trump to Bethlehem, warns against Jerusalem embassy move

"Any American act of stupidity will ignite the Palestinian territories," a Fatah official stated.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Eshkol House rededicated

The Bauhaus building at 46 Ben Maimon Boulevard in Jerusalem’s Rehavia neighborhood was built at the behest of Julius and Nechama Jacobs in 1933.

SARA NETANYAHU (right) rededicates the Julius House as the Eshkol House.

Gallery or revolution?

Last week, the municipality warned the organizers and members of Bar-Kayama that they are requested not to engage in any activity involving politics at the Barbur Gallery.

Shai Glick: Battling with Barbur Gallery