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The Jerusalem Post | Do Jerusalem’s Arab workers get vacation for Muslim holidays?
07/07/2023
According to data from Dr. Marik Stern – an urban-political geographer whose research and interests span cities i...
The Jerusalem Post | This week in Jerusalem: Happy at home
30/06/2023
Tens of thousands of people come every day to Jerusalem – not for tourism or prayer, but to work. This is the res...
The Jerusalem Post | Jerusalem Day: The statistics of Israel’s capital
19/05/2023
As every year, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research published its Yearbook with data that paints as recent...
The Jerusalem Post | Between heaven and earth, challenge and opportunity in Jerusalem – opinion
19/05/2023
Opinion column by Dr. David Koren, CEO of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies, on Jerusalem’s main challen...
The Jerusalem Post | Jerusalem isn’t united. But it can be
19/05/2023
Earlier this week, in advance of Jerusalem Day, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research released its annual S...
The Jerusalem Post | Jerusalem has a classroom shortage every year – no solution ever found
17/02/2023
In the Municipal Planning Department and at research institutions, especially the Jerusalem Institute for Policy ...
The Jerusalem Post | Armenians in Jerusalem live in the crosshairs of hate
17/02/2023
Amnon Ramon, senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies and expert on the Christian communit...
Globes | Jerusalem consolidates status as Israel’s capital of poverty
01/12/2022
“What really shocks me in the data is the fact that half of Jerusalem’s residents live in tier 1 neig...

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