Lion had ordered the name changed to Neot Yosef, after former Sephardi chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
‘This was a terrorist attack on us, and it shows contempt for all of us in the neighborhood that they want to erase the name of the neighborhood’
An event to protest the decision was planned for Sunday at the Jerusalem City Hall as the city's naming committee would be meeting, but on Thursday the committee announced that it was delayed.
About 30 residents of Har Nof representing multiple different religious and ethnic sectors attended the meeting.
One resident called on representatives of the community to “leave political considerations out of the neighborhood and find other obligations – for your own good.”
Most of the attacks were either not condemned as specifically antisemitic attacks, or their perpetrators were not found or were quietly deported.
The picture was taken at a 2014 wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate Palestinian “martyrs" in Tunisia.
The residence located in Jebl Mukaber, was evacuated and cordoned off on Wednesday and then razed by government bulldozers.
"This kind of collective punishment is not moral," says east Jerusalem portfolio head.
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