Jerusalem
Born in Gibraltar and a native Spanish speaker, Hassan-Nahoum holds the municipal “foreign-ministry portfolio,” where she has a vision of the city that reflects Israel’s self-determination, economic potential and responsibility to the Jewish Diaspora, while advocating for the education and financial well-being of the city’s minorities.
An unofficial extension of the Sur Baher neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, it is not included in the municipal territory of Jerusalem but adjacent to it.
Condemnation poured in from across the Arab and Islamic world after violence erupted at the sensitive site during overlapping Muslim and Jewish holidays.
Police initially closed the site to non-Muslims before opening it for short periods later in the day, enabling a record 1,700 Jews to visit.
The ninth of Av, which this year starts at sundown on Saturday, Aug. 10, and ends the next night, culminates a three-week period of mourning for devastating losses over the centuries.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz will present a proposal to designate the transfer of embassies to Jerusalem as a “national, diplomatic and strategic objective of the highest order.”
U.S. Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt tells the U.N. Security Council “international consensus is not international law,” and that Jerusalem is “today and forever” the capital of Israel.
Following a High Court ruling, IDF soldiers destroyed 12 structures in P.A.-controlled Wadi al Hummus area on the outskirts of eastern Jerusalem • P.A. threatens to lodge a complaint with the ICC.
Despite being given the green light by Israel’s High Court of Justice, the European Union says the demolition of illegally built homes in eastern Jerusalem violates international law.
“Jerusalem is a place where we sanctify freedom of worship,” said Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. “It is unbelievable that young Arabs are still being brainwashed by their school’s educators and surroundings to commit these acts of vandalism.”
The discovery, made by the Mount Zion Archaeological Project, confirms accounts of the fall of the Fatimid city in 1099 C.E. to the forces of the First Crusade.
The three would also reinstate talks towards a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
