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Jerusalem apartment destroyed by fire during Shabbat, seven injured

One person was moderately injured in the fire, with the rest being reported as lightly injured. All were rushed to a nearby hospital.

The aftermath of a fire that burned down an apartment in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, December 20, 2025
 The scene of a suspected stabbing attack in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem. July 20, 2023

Man seriously wounded in suspected terrorist stabbing in Jerusalem

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Israel publishes tenders for new West Bank settlement units

Houses are seen in the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo, December 29, 2016

Man lightly injured in stabbing attack south of Jerusalem


J'lem municipality approves 300 new housing units in Gilo, beyond Green Line

During the Obama adminstration, disagreement about construction in the same neighborhood caused the current freeze in peace talks with the Palestinians.

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo

Jerusalem neighborhoods reach Muezzin agreement without politicians

Community leaders from Gilo and Beit Safafa came together to formulate a plan to allow the Muezzin to continue without disturbing others.

A mosque in Abu Ghosh with its minarets towering above

US pans expansion of Jerusalem's contested Jewish neighborhood of Gilo

181 residential units approved in capital's southwestern Gilo neighborhood.

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo

Israel blasts US, EU and UN for condemning construction in Gilo

US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Paris on Saturday with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Palestinian issue was among the topics discussed.

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo

Inside Gilo: Who pays for that?

The neighborhood’s housing shortage is increasing as many families seek to move to Gilo, for reasons such as good educational institutions, relatively low housing prices and public transportation.

Inside Gilo, a neighborhood of some 27,000 residents

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Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

Mayor Nir Barkat

Gilo homes damaged by deadly gas explosion to be demolished and rebuilt

Costs for the project, to be carried out by a private contractor, will be defrayed by the resulting insurance claims from the January 2014 blast.

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo

A city annexed together and its split personality

"The Palestinians adjacent to Jerusalem have a double life, not to say a split personality."

PROTESTERS GATHER in Jerusalem’s Safra Square Sunday morning to protest the arrest of Arab children in east Jerusalem

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The Ades Synagogue in Nahlaot, Jerusalem

Court orders IDF to reroute barrier in Har Gilo area

Since 2006, the IDF has wanted to build a 1.5 km. stretch of the security barrier between Har Gilo and the Palestinian city of Beit Jala to prevent terrorists from entering Jerusalem.

A nun hurries by the security barrier toward the checkpoint from Jerusalem on her way to pray by the spot where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity

Construction in Gilo draws political condemnation

The building of 708 Jewish homes commenced this week in a forested area of the southern Jerusalem neighborhood.

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo