Moshe Lion

How Jerusalem’s mayor is reshaping one of the world’s most complicated cities

Holy to the world’s three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, managing the daily life of such a deeply symbolic city is no simple task.

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion
Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern

Former Jerusalem chief rabbi Aryeh Stern dies at 81

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials stand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

Netanyahu, officials lay wreaths after siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

 MAYOR MOSHE LION on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road.

Grapevine: SOS from Jerusalem


Should Jerusalem Municipality-backed institutions hold election events?

These days, when the title of legal adviser raises the threshold of excitement from all sides of the political map, things are a little more sensitive. 

 ELI MALKA: Surprising legal opinion.

Jerusalem municipal elections are approaching: Who's running?

Lion would like a secular, left-leaning woman for the slot to attract a secular audience to vote for his list. But so far, no one has been selected.

 LAURA WHARTON at Safra Square.

Jerusalem hi-tech center inauguration complicated by politics, protests

EasTech is a hi-tech complex on Saleh a-Din Street that will host hi-tech companies for free in exchange for hiring programmers from east Jerusalem. Israeli politicians' arrivals complicated things.

 MAYOR MOSHE LION: Unpleasant results this week.

This week in Jerusalem: The lady is a winner

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 CHOOSING THE Hills: Hiking the Sataf in the Jerusalem Hills.

Grapevine: Much that is positive

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MAYOR MOSHE LION on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road.

How are Jerusalem's politicians getting ready for municipal elections?

There have been some posters, some exposure on the media networks, and occasionally a few private salon get-togethers – but the big “action” has not happened yet. 

 An Israeli municipal elections voting box.

Jerusalem parties feud over haredi schools in secular neighborhoods

What is on the agenda now is feeling among some of the city’s residents that the ultra-Orthodox representatives are establishing facts on the ground and preparing to deepen their influence.

 HEBREW UNIVERSITY dorm in Kiryat Yovel, with anti-haredi graffiti, 2009 – even then, tensions were rising as the neighborhood was becoming increasingly Orthodox.

Jerusalem city councilors start their 2023 election campaigns

Jerusalem city councilors Laura Wharton and Yossi Havilio failed to unite their lists and run together, but their platforms are largely similar.

 YOSSI HAVILIO, deputy mayor and city councilor in the coalition’s non-haredi wing.

This week in Jerusalem: Helpless

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 TALPIOT: PARKING ticket hub of Jerusalem (Illustrative).

Moshe Lion, Yossi Saidov: Old West-esque rivals of Jerusalem politics

In this story, there is no good, no bad and no ugly. There is a powerful mayor who has managed to keep his 2018 election campaign promises against a simple city resident and activist.

 Illustrative of an Old West gunfight: Will good triumph over evil in our complex city of Jerusalem?