Emek Refaim

‘Jerusalem of Gold’ exhibit brings five Israeli artists to the capital’s theater

Jerusalem of Gold, a group exhibition featuring five Israeli artists, is open now and will be on display at the Jerusalem Theatre’s Salon Gallery until the end of September.

LEFT: AARON KRAUS, ‘Standing Prayer (Amidah).’ RIGHT: MIRIAM  JASKIEROWICZ ARMAN, ‘Begetting Life.’
‘The Last Moon’ (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: August 21-27

Jerusalem's Orient Hotel

Grapevine: Cultural, social, diplomatic – oh my!

A person takes a photo of a memorial sign showing the image of Shira Banki, an Israeli teenager who was stabbed during the 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade, during the 21st annual Jerusalem Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 1, 2023.

Grapevine: Shira Banki's Way


The train to the east

A railway tale that rolls through 100 years of Jewish settlement and pioneering in the Jezreel Valley.

RESTORED CARRIAGES from 1904 at Elroi.

This week in Jerusalem

Events taking place in and around Jerusalem.

Haim Guri

Grapevine: A Lion’s share of the kitty

Meanwhile, aside from trying to cobble a coalition, Lion has the ongoing problem that he inherited from Barkat – namely, will there or will there not be light rail service on the city’s Emek Refaim?

RAJAN ZED

Celebrating Sixty Years of Womanhood, Sisterhood and Bras

The Jerusalem Post

This week in Jerusalem: Life after Teva

A proposal was made that there should be an incentive to other firms in Jerusalem to absorb as many dismissed Teva employees as possible.

People protest outside a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries facility in Jerusalem on December 14

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

Though the light rail’s Blue Line has been approved, the fate of its 1.1-kilometer segment on Emek Refaim Street (pictured) is undecided

Jerusalem Pool closed YMCA Pool opens

The Jerusalem Post

The saga of the Blue Line

The Blue Line’s Emek Refaim path was opposed by local residents and businesses owners.

An alternate proposal for a tunnel would save both Mesila Park and Emek Refaim Street from the damage created by the work to build the Blue Line.

Grapevine: Balfour at Weizmann

A great deal of money from various members of the Sieff family went into promoting the Zionist cause and helping the development of Israel before and after statehood.

From left: Gen. Edmund Allenby, commander of Britian’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Balfour; and Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine (and a Jew)

Shaw's Jerusalem: A fun and unique take on a travel book

Shaw’s newest item is a book called 'My Jerusalem'; it’s a travel book that also functions as a sort of coloring book for adults.

Barbara Shaw and her new travel book, ‘My Jerusalem,’ also functions as a sort of coloring book for adults.