Jerusalem news

Monkey found chained to dumpster in Jerusalem as police investigate illegal wildlife trade

Throughout the month of March, the Jerusalem Post has covered several separate cases of monkeys and other wildlife being found throughout different communities in Israel.

 A monkey found chained to an east Jerusalem dumpster.
Rabbi Avi Berman speaking at the new OU Center in Jerusalem

OU Israel inaugurates new Jerusalem headquarters as President Herzog praises its role during crisis

 Pisgat Ze'ev Center Mall and light rail station.

No trains, only tests: Jerusalem Light Rail suspended for expansion

 Passengers at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem on March 31, 2022

Metro to serve Jerusalem population of 1.8m by 2050


THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

Danny Bonfil, Jerusalem region chairman of the Histadrut labor federation, reportedly threatened opposition leader Ofer Berkovitch (Hitorerut) this week.

Shoah

Passover interview with Jerusalem Mayor, Moshe Lion

What would happen if you’re invited to a bat mitzvah that takes place in the “egalitarian” area? First I’d say no, but then I would check the case. Progressive Jewry is not a problem in Jerusalem.

Moshe Lion, 2019.

Michael Maixner named new CEO of Israel Railways

A former IDF colonel, Maixner currently serves as CEO of IMCO Industries, a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange-listed defense company, and previously served as CEO of Merkavim and Hod Assaf Industries.

Passengers travel on Israel's new high-speed rail line from Ben Gurion International Airport to Jerusalem September 25, 2018

Queen of the national religious

An encounter with Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Unhappy with Egged

A look into the issues plaguing Jerusalem’s public bus system

Jerusalem bus No. 13

J’lem deputy mayor Turgeman arrested as part of a corruption probe

Police said in a statement that they suspect that they will “keep investigating misconducts, carried out in a conflict of interest.”

Meir Turgeman

This week in Jerusalem: Good for the north

A round-up of this week's city affairs

Ammunition Hill

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed rail to open on March 30

The soon-to-be unveiled rail link is expected to more than halve the time it takes to travel between the two cities.

Members of the media tour one of the tunnels that will be part of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed railway.

Knesset to vote on bill to allow separating neighborhoods from Jerusalem

Many of the residents of these districts are originally from the Old City and surrounding neighborhoods.

A view of Kafr Akab, one of the neighborhoods behind the security barrier that would be affected by Elkin's plan. (Udi Shaham)

Jerusalem bus station stabber charged: Acted to avenge Trump’s declaration

“The accused resented the declaration and decided to carry out a stabbing attack, to murder Jews in Jerusalem. This, he claimed, was to defend Jerusalem and the al-Aksa mosque,'charge sheet noted.

An Israeli Border Policewoman at the scene of the Jerusalem Central Bus Station stabbing attack, December 10, 2017.