Jerusalem lifestyle

Sleeping facing history: The veteran Jerusalem Hotel reopens

Beit Shmuel Hotel in Jerusalem has reopened after a major renovation, offering 56 rooms, a conference center, and soon a rooftop wellness area with a pool overlooking the Old City walls.

The Renovated Beit Shmuel Hotel.
Israelis hold flags and walk on the walls surrounding Jerusalem’s Old City while celebrating Jerusalem Day on May 21

Jerusalem Day: Capital is young, diverse, growing

Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Lion and municipality workers dancing on the song "Jerusalema"

The 'Jerusalema Challenge' has finally reached Jerusalem!

Jerusalem Foundation President Shai Doron

I am a Jerusalemite


The joy of a Jerusalem playground

Gaby Bar Giora in front of the renovated Mifletzet playground.

A tale of three takes

“It’s a human experience that the viewers can identify with."

Ayelet Bachar

Art factory

A most unusual summer space for creation takes shape in the middle of the city.

The Empty House art collective is working with the municipality to create a new kind of ‘urban capsule’ – in the form of HaMiffal

Quentin Tarantino tops the guest list at the 33rd Jerusalem Film Fest

Tarantino, who last visited Israel to promote his 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds, is one of a great number of exciting guests who will take part in this year’s festival.

Quentin Tarantino

Operation #BestBenedict

‘In Jerusalem’ sets out on a mission to find the best eggs Benedict in the holy city – and finds a surfeit.

Eggs Benedict

Gone into oblivion

According to the law, if a property becomes uninhabitable, its owner benefits from a significant reduction in the taxes imposed.

The site of the former President Hotel on Ahad Ha’am Street. In a comic twist, the derelict sign now reads ‘Resident Ho.’

Transforming Talpiot – through art

“We believe that artists can influence their surroundings.”

Emunah College third-year art students prepare and paint the pedestrian tunnel

The unmasking of Purim

As with all of our heroes and holidays, Purim is a complex combination of grief and glory, tragedy and triumph.

Hamantaschen cookies for Purim, "Oznei Haman" in Hebrew ‏

Young, gifted and gay in Jerusalem

Assessing the winds of change in the city’s LGBT community, and what has been accomplished since the pride parade stabbing last summer that shocked the nation.

LGBT supporters flood the capital’s streets and wave custom pride flags, after the murder of Shira Banki at the city’s pride parade last July

Multiple walls, hundreds of stories

Infusing Mahaneh Yehuda with new life – one spray-paint portrait at a time.

Solomon Souza (right) and Berel Hahn, feeling at home in the shuk