Jerusalem current events

Grapevine: Onward August

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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

Jerusalem highlights: July 31-August 6

 FOLK SINGER Sandy Cash brings the tunes on Wednesday.

Jerusalem highlights: Week of September 17-23

 Gil Shwed at The Global Investment Forum (June 2021)

Jerusalem Post Conferences


This week in Jerusalem 484371

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

When the moral becomes trivial and the symbolic becomes essential

Anticipating this new wind that will blow through the corridors of the American government, many public officials are hurrying to announce that now we must rule and implement our our sovereignty.

HOUSES UNDER construction in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem in 2010

Jerusalem Grapevine: Cubcakes for the Karzens

A round up of news from in and around Jerusalem.

Chicago Cubs win the World Series