Mea shearim

Grapevine: Commemorating a Chabad giant

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Huvy Elisha.

The legacy of Huvy Elisha: The quiet life of a Mea She’arim painter and matriarch

 Haredi man sprayed swastikas on MDA ambulances in Jerusalem

Haredi man sprays swastikas on MDA ambulances in Mea Shearim neighborhood

A hospital bed.

A night in the hospital under the influence - opinion


COVID-19 test manufacturer makes ultra-Orthodox employees work separately

Nova Tel, who manufactures the swabs necessary for performing tests to detect COVID-19, placed all of its ultra-Orthodox employees on temporary unpaid leave before protests prompted their rehiring.

A Jewish ultra-Orthodox man looks onto a local billboard with instructions related to the coronavirus at a street in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, March 27, 2020

16 years ago, 23 people were murdered just north of Mea Shearim

More than 130 were also wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a five-kilogram device on an Egged No. 2 bus. The terrorists and families have received almost NIS 2.7 million since then.

Border policemen and firefighters stand near a bus that was bombed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in April

Israel’s Duality

The Jerusalem Post

Police remove effigy in IDF uniform from building in Haredi neighborhood

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman commented on the incident on Twitter, calling it a "horrifying sight."

The effigy removed from the side of a building where it was hung in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim. (Police spokesperson)

Giving kids a leg up

Growing up isn’t easy and when the cards are stacked against you, it’s even harder.

E4S children hold hands with its founder and president, Dina Auron.

Police arrest two in Mea She’arim after last week’s riot against draft

“Arresting our people or people who were connected to our battle in the past will not deter us.”

Haredim take part in a protest in Mea She’arim against the municipality opening a nearby road on Shabbat.

Breaking artistic barriers

‘Thou Shalt Not’ – A provocative new exhibition at Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam

The artist Andi Arnovitz’s interpretation of ‘Adam and Eve’

Ex-Israeli police general: Use rubber bullets against ultra-Orthodox protestors

Security forces should have 'no mercy' when dispersing ultra-Orthodox anti-draft protestors, wrote former Israeli Police Major General Amit Arieh in a Facebook post.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a protest against a law calling for members of their community to serve in the army, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood December 22, 2015.

IDF soldier, son of former MK Dov Lipman, attacked in Mea Shearim

"There is no way a soldier should have to think twice about going anywhere in the State of Israel.”

A TOLDOT AHARON Hassid (right) and another haredi man escort the son of former MK Dov Lipman, who is a soldier, away from an anti-Zionist mob in the capital’s Mea She’arim neighborhood on Friday.

Effigy of IDF soldier found hanging execution style in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim

Alongside the statuette in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox neighborhood hung a sign inciting against the inscription of haredi Jews into the army.

Effigy of IDF soldier found in Mea Shearim