"} 63:{"position":6,"content":"Tu Bishvat at Ammunition Hill"} 64:{"position":7,"content":"Now that the Ammunition Hill memorial site has a new museum depicting the story of the heroic battle that took place there during the 1967 war, educational programs there are being promoted. One of them is the traditional Tu Bishvat planting ceremony, which will take place with families of the soldiers from the IDF soldiers who fell there and children from schools in the city. The ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, January 31, at 5.30 p.m. at the entrance to the museum at the site. More info at *2967."} 65:{"position":8,"content":"Shoah – a Russian angle"} 66:{"position":9,"content":"There seems to be a change taking place in Russia’s attitude about what happened to the Jews during World War II. This is evident in a trilogy of new films made recently on “witnesses.” Director Constantin Pam and his partner, Anna Magin, who initiated the project, are in Jerusalem to present the third movie of the trilogy, Mavo. The two say that while the role of Russia confronting the Nazis has always been highlighted, the use of the word “Holocaust” was never mentioned and Russians know very little about the fate of the Jews during that period. The two Russian directors are visiting and presenting their works here this week in conjunction with the UN’s annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust."} 67:{"position":10,"content":"Police and municipal action"} 68:{"position":11,"content":"The Jerusalem Police and the municipality conducted a joint operation in the Majlis neighborhood in the Old City, close to the entry to the Temple Mount and Mosque Esplanade. Illegal merchant stands, an unauthorized iron gate that obstructed the walkway, dangerous pirate gas containers and more were removed. Representatives of the tax authorities, under the protection of the police, distributed fines and summonses for some of th

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