Jerusalem news

Monkey found chained to dumpster in Jerusalem as police investigate illegal wildlife trade

Throughout the month of March, the Jerusalem Post has covered several separate cases of monkeys and other wildlife being found throughout different communities in Israel.

 A monkey found chained to an east Jerusalem dumpster.
Rabbi Avi Berman speaking at the new OU Center in Jerusalem

OU Israel inaugurates new Jerusalem headquarters as President Herzog praises its role during crisis

 Pisgat Ze'ev Center Mall and light rail station.

No trains, only tests: Jerusalem Light Rail suspended for expansion

 Passengers at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem on March 31, 2022

Metro to serve Jerusalem population of 1.8m by 2050


Jerusalem Grapevine: Multiplying projects

Lev Leviev

Jerusalem’s International Convention Center named top 10 in world

Over 500,000 visitors attended events at the center last year.

International Convention Center ( ICC ) in Jerusalem

Young, secular exodus spurring Jerusalem population loss

Reasons cited for leaving the capital included prohibitive housing costs, an increasingly intolerant religious presence, subpar municipal services, and relatively low wages.

People walk down Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on a Shabbat afternoon.

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Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

Jerusalem light rail.

A shameful week in city politics

For weeks Barkat and his team had been peddling to us, his coalition partners, the idea of a strike as the only means of advancing negotiations with the Finance Ministry for the 2017 capital city grant.

A MAN walks past a heap of garbage outside Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda Market during the three-day municipal strike that began on January 29.

Jerusalem in chaos

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

In Barkat’s words

Mayor Nir Barkat answered journalists’ questions and explained why he decided to go on strike.

Mayor Nir Barkat

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Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

Mahaneh Yehuda

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

Jerusalem Grapevine: Feeling 50 on a bad day

Walter Bingham