By Orly Noy, Ir Amim Spokesperson

The recent diplomatic and journalistic storm over plans to expand the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem exposed a fundamental difference of view between Israel and many of its strongest supporters. Reacting to news that plans for 900 new dwellings in Gilo were to be approved...

By Abeer Otman

July 2009. Seven years have passed since I arrived in Jerusalem, a girl of 19, from the village of Rabia. All I wanted was to study at the Hebrew University, the premier university in Israel and it did not matter that the university was in Jerusalem. I...

By Orly Noy, Ir Amim Spokesperson

Recent events in East Jerusalem, especially at the site Jews call Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram el Sharif, have given rise to obsessive betting among Israelis about the likelihood of a third intifada breaking out soon. Such forecasts seem to depend on the...

By Yonathan Mizrachi

The film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- the fourth in the Indiana Jones series--portrays an archaeologist who seeks to return a crystal skull of great importance to the place where it was found. As an archaeologist, Indiana Jones' role is not just...

From a speech by Alice Shalvi at a demonstration against the expansion of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem, September 10, 2009*.

Jerusalem is holy ground to three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Therein lie its uniqueness, its magnificence, its beauty. And therein lies the...

By Ziva Galili

September 1 was 'Back to School" day for a million and a half children and teenagers all over Israel. Schools opened in Jerusalem, too, but in East Jerusalem tens of thousands of students do not have the choice of attending a State school. A report by the...

By Ilana Sichel
Like many short trips in this region, the 15-minute car ride from the busy center of downtown West Jerusalem to the Shuafat Refugee Camp is a quick jaunt from the first world to the third. Coming from the "new Israeli neighborhood" of

By Yudith Oppenheimer, Executive Director, Ir Amim

In the early morning on August 2, 2009, as residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem slept soundly, a group of Israeli settlers accompanied by a large police force broke into two homes, forcefully removing the residents and their belongings. Within hours,...

A Special Report by Yizhar Be'er

You have to see it to believe it. The photographs that appear here document the murals that stretch dozens of meters down the length of the road that leads from the neighborhood of Silwan -- that is, the City of David -- along the...

A special report by Sami Ershied.

Jerusalem's first city plan since 1967 was slated to be deposited for public review but is currently being held up by MK Eli Yishai, purportedly because it allocates too much housing to the city's Palestinian population. The plan, "Jerusalem...

A special report by Dahlia Scheindlin

Your heart would have to be made of basalt and dry ice would flow in your veins if you were not moved by Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo.

President Obama talked about seeking similarities, not differences; a world where people speak honestly,...

Yudith Oppenheimer, Executive Director, Ir Amim

Ilana Sichel, Research Fellow, Ir Amim

This past Sunday, Jerusalem celebrated the opening day of "Education Transcends Walls," a week-long focus on education in honor of Jerusalem Day -- the Israeli anniversary of the "reunification" of the city following the 1967 war. The...