Daily Archives: June 7, 2020

JNS: Jerusalem mayor hopes ‘Silicon Wadi’ project will create 10,000 jobs

The Silicon Wadi project entails the construction of approximately 200,000 square meters (2.1 million square feet) of business area, with an emphasis on the high-tech, trade and hotel sectors. One of the goals of the initiative is to create 10,000 jobs in eastern Jerusalem and increase the participation of eastern Jerusalem women in the job…

Globes: Ashtrom to build Jerusalem Mahane Yehuda high-rises

The project will have two 30-floor towers with 308 apartments and six-floors of underground parking. Read full article here

Weizmann Institute of Science: Solving the Riddle: When was Wilson’s Arch, under Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Built?

Analyzing a handful of charred seeds reveals the ancient builder of an iconic structure in the Western Wall Tunnels Read full article here

Jerusalem Post: ‘East Jerusalem is Israeli, open the city’

Amid some ambivalence, the government moved speedily toward annexation immediately after 1967 Six Day War The barriers separating the two halves of Jerusalem, he said, would be removed in the morning, and residents – Arabs as well as Jews – would be free to cross over. Almost everybody at the meeting, including Kollek, protested that it was too soon. Enemies…

Times of Israel: Suspect arrested over assault on former Likud MK in East Jerusalem

Yehudah Glick calls attack on him during condolence visit to family of autistic man shot dead by police ‘a murderous lynch that ended in a miracle’ Read full article here

Jerusalem’s Changing Demographics: An Overview from the Jerusalem Statistical Yearbook

The population of Jerusalem is double that of Tel Aviv’s and stands at 919,000, of whom 62 percent is Jewish and 38 percent Arab. Jerusalem is the city with the largest Jewish population in Israel, the largest ultra-Orthodox population (one-quarter of all ultra-Orthodox in Israel), and the largest Arab population (20 percent of all Arabs in…