Jerusalem Municipality

Jerusalem approves protest tent for family of missing girl Haymanot Kasau

Haymanot’s father, Tesfaye Kasau, thanked those who helped the family obtain approval after what he said was a five-month effort.

Blue and White MK Pnina Tameno-Shete speaks into a megaphone at a protest calling for an expansion in the investigation, a few weeks ago.
Protestors march in Jerusalem for missing girl Haymanot Kasau, with signs reading ‘Bring her home now’ 21st of December 2025

Parents of missing fight Jerusalem court's refusal of protest camp near PMO

SUSIE OZSINAY ARANYA, International Communications and Foreign Media Spokesperson for the Jerusalem Municipality

Jerusalem: One city, many voices

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Israel, Paybox launch Jerusalem's first municipal wallet in push to digitalize taxes, payments


This week in Jerusalem: Money time

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 THE 2023 overall municipal budget: A record-breaking NIS 14.4 billion.

Jerusalem parties feud over haredi schools in secular neighborhoods

What is on the agenda now is feeling among some of the city’s residents that the ultra-Orthodox representatives are establishing facts on the ground and preparing to deepen their influence.

 HEBREW UNIVERSITY dorm in Kiryat Yovel, with anti-haredi graffiti, 2009 – even then, tensions were rising as the neighborhood was becoming increasingly Orthodox.

Jerusalem city councilors start their 2023 election campaigns

Jerusalem city councilors Laura Wharton and Yossi Havilio failed to unite their lists and run together, but their platforms are largely similar.

 YOSSI HAVILIO, deputy mayor and city councilor in the coalition’s non-haredi wing.

This week in Jerusalem: Helpless

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 TALPIOT: PARKING ticket hub of Jerusalem (Illustrative).

Moshe Lion, Yossi Saidov: Old West-esque rivals of Jerusalem politics

In this story, there is no good, no bad and no ugly. There is a powerful mayor who has managed to keep his 2018 election campaign promises against a simple city resident and activist.

 Illustrative of an Old West gunfight: Will good triumph over evil in our complex city of Jerusalem?

Women participation gains momentum in Jerusalem municipal elections race

Efforts to increase female representation in the Jerusalem Municipality has now started to generate action on the ground.

 YAEL ENTEBI represents Pisgat Ze’ev.

Palestinians renew call to boycott Jerusalem elections

The majority of the Arab residents have been boycotting the municipal elections since 1968, claiming that participation would be interpreted as recognition of Israel’s annexation of east Jerusalem.

 Palestinian youths hold their national flag during a protest against a Jewish settlement in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem

This week in Jerusalem: Back in the pool

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 SWIMMERS, REJOICE: The Jerusalem Pool is back (Illustrative).

Jerusalem for everyone? Tensions simmer in Israel's divided capital

While Lion tries his best to convey that the city belongs to everyone, including non-Jews who live here, the main struggles in recent days have centered around this issue.

 ACTS SUCH as spitting on Armenian priests in the Old City have become routine: A young clergyman takes part in Sunday mass.

Will Walid Abu Tayeh be the first Arab on the Jerusalem City Council?

After several failed attempts by the Arabs of the eastern part of Jerusalem to integrate into municipal politics, attorney Walid Abu Tayeh thinks the time has finally come.

 WALID ABU TAYEH of Beit Hanina: The time has come.