Posts Tagged: Jerusalem Israel
Yom Yerushalayim: Jerusalem Is a City That Holds Us All
In 1790, when Washington, D.C., was designed to be the capital of the United States, it was envisioned not just as a seat of government,...
Journalists Using Israel-Hamas War as a Pretext for Claiming Tel Aviv Is Israel’s Capital
More than a decade ago, HonestReporting achieved significant success in changing the way that The Guardian reports on Israel, setting a journalistic precedent in the...
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Make List of 20 Most Expensive Cities
JNS.org - Israel’s capital and most populated city, Jerusalem, and its second-largest city, Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean Sea, made the list of the 20...
Hebron and Jerusalem
My first visit to Israel, nearly fifty years ago, was sponsored by the American Jewish Committee for “disaffected Jewish academics.” I was eminently qualified. Although...
Ah, Jerusalem!
I’ve read what the Talmud says: “10 measures of beauty descended on the world, nine were taken by Yerushalayim, one by the rest of the...
The Quiet Sages of Jerusalem
The Jerusalem I first came to in 1958 was a very different and much smaller town than the Jerusalem of today. There was no Old...
1 in 10 Israelis Now Call Jerusalem Home
JNS.org - Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, is also the nation’s most populous city, with 924,800 residents, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics...
Construction in Jerusalem Leads to Growth — and Growing Pains
JNS.org - Just as “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” neither was Jerusalem, says Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. As a part of the city’s...
Despite BDS, Israeli Tourism Continues to Thrive
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is designed to delegitimize the State of Israel. Its object is to target the country’s very identity and...
Barring Eurovision From Jerusalem Is a Win for the BDS Movement
The refusal of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to allow the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest to take place in Jerusalem exposed the gap that remains...
To Ensure Sovereignty Over Jerusalem, Arab Residents Must Be Equally Protected
Benjamin Netanyahu takes pride in having played a key role in President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and...
Trump Administration: No ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ on US Passports
JNS.org - Despite the United States recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last December and relocating its embassy from Tel Aviv in May, Americans born in...
The US Embassy Move Reflects the New Middle East
When Iranian Quds forces fired missiles at Israeli targets on the Golan Heights recently and Israel responded by decimating significant parts of Iran’s military infrastructure inside Syria,...
The Day Jerusalem Won
JNS.org - The opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is the fulfillment of what many Jews dreamed of regardless of their...
