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Ofri Meoded Danon and his mother celebrate his bar mitzvah at the egalitarian plaza of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel in May 2023. (Courtesy of Meoded Danon)

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Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall

5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate

June 23, 2023, 9:56 am

Red tape keeps non-Orthodox worshipers a stone’s throw from the Western Wall

5 years after stone collapse at holy site, authorities have yet to reopen access to Wall at egalitarian section; religious activists argue delay is deliberate

By Canaan Lidor

June 19, 2023, 7:32 am

Double-decker tourist buses to debut in Jerusalem

The new line will take travelers around Jerusalem’s top sites including the Old City, Israel Museum and Mahane Yehuda market

By ToI Staff

Members of the LGBQT community and supporters protest against Jerusalem city council member Yonatan Yosef, outside the Jerusalem Municipality town hall on May 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

May 22, 2023, 6:35 pm

Jerusalem deputy mayor, council member panned for ‘vile’ rant against LGBTQ people

At festive council meeting to mark unification of city, right-wing politicians call members of the community mentally ill

By ToI Staff

Screen capture of the Rose Garden, Jerusaelm. (Google Street View. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

May 14, 2023, 9:01 am

Injunction issued against Jerusalem municipality over park cafe’s Shabbat restriction

Hitorerut party petitions court against tender for Rose Garden eatery requiring operators to close on Jewish day of rest; city hall says complying with local residents’ wishes

By ToI Staff

Mitzpe-Tel in southeast Jerusalem. (Pnina Shir)

March 7, 2023, 12:55 pm

Plan okayed for big police complex on scenic Jerusalem hill known for spring lupines

With blue flowers carpeting Mitzpe-Tel in the East Talpiot neighborhood of the capital, residents plead for their small patch of nature to be left alone

By Sue Surkes

Reches Lavan, or White Ridge, east of Jerusalem. (Dov Greenblat, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

February 23, 2023, 4:02 pm

Court halts major Jerusalem Hills urban plan, orders environmental assessment

Society for Protection of Nature in Israel welcomes ruling, urges government to cancel Reches Lavan project and preserve area as a national asset

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Screen capture of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence on Gaza Street in Jerusalem. (iMaps)

February 21, 2023, 7:06 pm

Detailed plans of Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home were reportedly available online

Information, said to include planned fortifications, layout of rooms and location of bulletproof windows, said to have been on Jerusalem Planning Administration website

By ToI Staff

An undated photo of the Notre Dame guest house, convent, and church, located just outside Jerusalem's Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

February 6, 2023, 8:17 pm

In fresh move in tax dispute with Vatican, Israel freezes Notre Dame hotel accounts

Municipality places lien on NIS 18 million in accounts of Vatican-owned church and pilgrim center, as three decades pass without economic agreement with Holy See

By Lazar Berman

View of buildings in East Jerusalem, February 1, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

February 6, 2023, 7:13 pm

After international pressure, PM delays East Jerusalem razing sought by Ben Gvir

Netanyahu’s office puts stay on demolition of building where 100 Palestinians live after pushback from Western embassies; national security minister says it’ll be done eventually

By Jacob Magid

Artists Sarah Benninga (left) and Rachel Rotenberg at the December 28, 2022 Museum on the Seam reopening of 'Kravot,' their exhibit that includes nude imagery and was previously shuttered. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

December 30, 2022, 7:23 am

Jerusalem exhibit shuttered by city due to nude imagery, reopens in Museum on Seam

City-run Beita gallery ordered to close down new exhibit, prompting move to private space, but mayor’s office says he didn’t know about it

By Jessica Steinberg

United Torah Judaism chairman MK Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

December 22, 2022, 1:28 am

Incoming housing minister reportedly split Jerusalem apartment into 5 without permit

Newspaper says United Torah Judaism’s Yitzchak Goldknopf is still registered as having some property rights at building in capital, though he claims to have transferred ownership

By ToI Staff

An orange bin for recycling containers and wrappers appears next to a paper recycling container (center) and a bin for glass, at Hatulot Square in downtown Jerusalem, on November 27, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

November 28, 2022, 11:43 pm

Jerusalem gets bins for recyclable containers and wrappers, after years of delay

Director of separate city recycling plant says municipality will have to pay his company compensation, as it will now receive less material to sell for recycling

By Sue Surkes

A picture of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who is credited with saving thousands in the Holocaust, next to the square named in his honor, Kiryat Hayovel, Jerusalem, November 8, 2022 (Ash Obel/Times of Israel)

November 9, 2022, 12:32 pm

Jerusalem square named for Portuguese diplomat who saved 10,000 Jews in WWII

Aristides de Sousa Mendes defied his country’s dictator and provided visas to people in France fleeing Nazi persecution; mayor says plaza ‘now carries the name of a hero’

By Ash Obel

Israeli authorities demolish a building that was built without a permit, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, November 7, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

November 8, 2022, 3:46 pm

PA media accuses Jerusalem of demolishing bakery operated by family of terrorist

Municipality denies knowing of any connection between building and Udai Tamimi’s relatives; says demolition orders issued in 2014, provides photos showing site derelict and rundown

By Jack Mukand

Supporters and followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland protest outside the Nitzan Prison in Ramle, on October 27, 2021 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

October 14, 2022, 12:47 pm

Jerusalem lets convicted cult leader use municipal parking lot for Sukkot events

Municipality defends allowing sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland and his followers to build sukkah on city-owned land, as vacationing staff aren’t parking there over holidays

By Ash Obel