Jerusalem Elections 2018

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Rebecca Bardach

Feb 21, 2019, 1:44 PM

The “occupation” and “cleansing” of Abu Tor?

A weather-beaten wooden sign, cracking along the wood’s natural lines, stands at the top of my street. It is positioned at the main entrance to Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighborhood, and the Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, residents who live alongside...

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 29, 2018, 9:21 AM

What’s in a smile? (and why we need it here)

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” Mother Teresa Why is it that more people scowl these days? What is happening to us? It is a scientific fact: smiling is healthier for both you...

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 8, 2018, 11:31 AM

A Government Handbook For the Arts

Regev's 'Culture Loyalty Law' has a proud record in the arts traditions of some of history's finest totalitarian regimes

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 1, 2018, 10:50 AM

Soundscape of Jerusalem — No. 1

My Tree House

Prelude: Election Day. I hear an occasional horn and garbled words hooting for one or the other. I sit in my hermit's hideout, up in the trees. I do my civic duty, voting early morning. The guy in cal-pi-voting...

Ofer Berkovitch

Oct 28, 2018, 2:26 PM

Jerusalemites, I'll be a mayor who works for your interests

Hitorerut activists clean up Jerusalem. July 2018 (courtesy)

With no national political aspirations, my only goal is to improve the capital's economic, cultural and social standing

Oct 24, 2018, 12:34 AM

Despite death threats, I want to serve Jerusalem

Palestinian schoolgirls play after school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, March 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

I'm running for city council to stem the forces of extremism born of hopelessness

Oct 22, 2018, 11:28 AM

Nevertheless, they persist

Illustrative. Candidates on the Olim Beyahad list for the 2018 Tel Aviv municipal elections. Bottom row, left to right: Gerard Pomper, Sendy Ben-Hamo, Oliver Rafovitz, Jack Amoyal. Top row, left to right: Vika Kanar, Boris Shindler, LiAmi Lawrence , Marina Soyfer. (Edward Stern, via The TImes of Israel)

If women manage to reduce the gender gap in the upcoming local elections, they'll have the chance to make a real difference

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Oct 16, 2018, 7:14 PM

Chauvinism on the Jerusalem campaign trail

I was asked to represent Jerusalem mayoral candidate Ze'ev Elkin, but the others running wouldn't sit on the panel with me

Oct 14, 2018, 10:45 PM

City Council Hopefuls Want to Make Jerusalem More Olim-Friendly

Yoni Mann (Left) and Dan Illouz (Right) are running on Hitorerut's list

Former US President John F. Kennedy once famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.” However, two hopeful olim running for Jerusalem city council are proving that it...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 10, 2018, 7:35 AM

Professional opinion pollsters make fun of truth, science and statistics

I live in Jerusalem. Sometimes my landline rings. Seldom but it does happen. And sometimes it's an opinion pollster and often a salesperson. And sometimes I have time and patience for them. I will share some of the nonsense that...

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