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Peta Jones Pellach

Feb 27, 2024, 12:10 AM

He agreed to vote

I had been trying to write a piece explaining why it is so important to vote in the municipal elections. It sounds so simple that I was beginning to feel it was not worth writing. However, after talking to an acquaintance,...

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Feb 22, 2024, 10:23 PM

The Anglo women running for city council

There is nothing more important than representation for making change. I’ve seen it in my own work for Jewish women’s rights and it is obvious to me as a resident of Beit Shemesh for 16 years. When people aren’t...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 5, 2024, 10:17 AM

I’m not going to vote in the Jerusalem municipality elections

Celebrating 30 years in Jerusalem We're getting elections again. This will be the first time I'm not going to vote. I don't want to legitimize what they're doing. We have nothing to say. We can vote, and it's not of any...

Jonathan Zausmer

Aug 4, 2023, 12:44 PM

Jerusalem has an Arab-Israeli candidate for mayor: Meet Waleed Abu Tayeh

For the first time in modern Israeli history, there is such a candidate who is more than qualified and willing to take on this job. Several attempts in the past by various other Arab candidates to run as an...

May 22, 2020, 12:49 AM

The Stinging Bite of a Vicious Lion

More vicious than the animals of the jungle, the mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Lion, has outdone them. In his recent broadcast over the ultra-orthodox radio station Kol B’Rama, Mayor Lion has proclaimed loud and clear, “There is no place for...

Rebecca Bardach

Feb 28, 2019, 2:46 PM

My complicated Jewish-Arab 'hood of Abu Tor

Illustrative: Abu Tor, a mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhood in central Jerusalem, south of the Old City, December 16 2009. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)

Is it coexistence when even my 8-year-old can see that 'the city doesn’t care about the people' who live over there?

Jan 30, 2019, 4:08 PM

What Moshe Lion doesn’t get about olim

The news yesterday that Jerusalem's new mayor Moshe Lion is cutting the city budget for Olim (immigrants) should come as no great surprise. After his team promised to increase the budget from a "mini-budget of 12 million NIS that does...

Nov 12, 2018, 12:07 AM

Please go out and vote for Ofer Berkovitch

He really can win, but he needs every single person who believes he's the better path for Jerusalem to go to the polls on Tuesday

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 26, 2018, 9:53 AM

Why I joined Hitorerut

The coming election is critical to Jerusalem’s future. Those of us with the great responsibility to choose Jerusalem’s next leaders should consider their vote carefully. It is with this understanding that I decided to run for city council with...

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