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Formula One race cars tear through Jerusalem streets 23 Jun 2013 | 02:18 pm
Jerusalem dwellers were treated to a taste of F1 auto racing when drivers and vehicles from the Ferrari and Marussia teams put on an invigorating motorsport showcase this past Thursday and Friday on a...
Jerusalem gets free science lessons in pajamas 17 Jun 2013 | 11:33 am
Under the framework of the "Science to the People" initiative (official website in Hebrew only), a Ministry of Science, Technology and Space-managed series of fun events targeting everyday Israelis fo...
Jerusalem art: it's eeeeeeeeevil 23 May 2012 | 04:02 am
Hey, remember that "concerned Jerusalem citizens' group" Lemallah (population: one dedicated hombre) that, well, according to itself, stopped the construction of a philanthropist-funded aesthetics-def...
Traffic in Rechavia possibly headed underground 23 May 2012 | 12:04 am
Jerusalem - even modern Jerusalem - is an old city. Many neighborhoods date back to the horse-and-buggy era, and the street layout is, to put it gently, more "organic" than "thought-out." All of this ...
Jerusalem of tunnels 27 Jul 2011 | 01:25 am
This Thursday morning, the Moriah construction concern and the Jerusalem city government are scheduled to collectively host a ceremony to mark the official naming of the Mount Scopus tunnel after Isra...
Streetballin' in Jerusalem 1 Jul 2011 | 04:58 am
Basketball. Long ago in the game's early days, before everyone realized they were not on the whole a very tall people, Jews were major players, significantly overrepresented on the court. And while th...
The top five views of Jerusalem's Old City 26 Oct 2010 | 05:27 pm
The rabbis of the Talmud wrote it, and every guidebook and tour operator repeats it: "Ten measures of beauty descended on the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem." Trite, perhaps. Immodest, certainly....
Beating the summer heat 25 Jul 2010 | 08:04 pm
Sure, the relative height of the Judean Hills and the occasional mountain breeze means that during the hot months Jerusalem residents suffer less than their compatriots in the Levantine bayou that is ...
The top five underground performance spaces in Jerusalem 8 Apr 2010 | 05:39 pm
Much is made of the youth exodus plaguing Jerusalem, a cascade of bright young people squeezed out every year by skyrocketing rents, poor municipal management and sometime intolerance by more conserva...
Matza hits the big time for Jerusalem 26 Mar 2010 | 01:34 am
Pictured is the honorable Mayor Nir Barkat, posing with a world record-setting largest piece of matza ever. The oversized cracker measures over 3 meters in diameter and weighs in at 60 kilo. It was ma...
