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When he drives around east Jerusalem, taxi driver Samer al-Risheq doesn't use GPS and tucks away his maps. In many parts on this side of the city, those tools are useless: The streets have no na ...
East Jerusalem, where the streets had no names For decades local residents used landmarks as their only method of navigation; municipality now working to ensure every building has an address ...
In some cases, change has become so rapid that it is difficult when passing an empty storefront to remember what merchandise was sold from there as recently as a week ago.
Like so many places in this divided city, the street where several recent terrorist stabbings have taken place in Jerusalem’s Old City goes by two names. To Jews, it is HaGai Street, and to ...
It’s the names of the streets themselves. It’s no secret that the streets of Jerusalem are named for the figures, the places, the values, and even the dates that are most dear to our people.
On Jerusalem’s streets, an ancient wanderer inspires a modern day ode to home ‘Street Talk’ project brightens the capital’s walls with illustrations and poetry imagining 12th century ...
Palestinians regard East Jerusalem as their potential capital and view newly named streets with suspicion.
JERUSALEM — On the surface, Meir Nakar Street seems like an idyllic place to live. A kindergarten and a leafy park are on one side of the street and a row of neat stone houses is on the other.
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When he drives around east Jerusalem, taxi driver Samer al-Risheq doesn't use GPS and tucks away his maps. In many parts on this side of the city, those tools are useless: The streets have no names.
A Palestinian man drove his car into a crowd on a Jerusalem street on Monday, injuring five people before being shot dead by a passerby, Israeli police said.
Shared fragility on Jerusalem’s streets My hope is that these stories of mutual help between Israeli Jews and Arabs will mitigate against the terrible harms that are drowning both communities ...