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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...
Haaretz | Life in the Palestinian Shoafat Refugee Camp Stopped After Saturday’s Shooting
12/10/2022
The refugee camp, which was established in 1965 by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, and by ...
The Jerusalem Post | Almost half of Jerusalem is in poverty: How do they survive?
26/09/2022
The late Prof. Avraham Friedman, the former CEO of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, defined this prec...
Haaretz | Thousands of East Jerusalem Students Skip School in Protest Claiming Censorship
19/09/2022
Dr. David Koren, the CEO of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, said “strikes are a rather routine tool ...
The Jerusalem Post | How can we preserve the much beloved buildings in Jerusalem?
09/09/2022
At the National Council for Preservation, there is an understanding of the constant tension between the need to p...
i24News | Israel launches training program for Israeli Arabs to work in private sector
29/08/2022
A study by the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research found that the Arab population of east Jerusalem had a bet...
Globes | Program for employing Jerusalem Arabs in public sector underway
22/08/2022
A study by the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research found that the Arab population of East Jerusalem was bette...
The Jerusalem Post | Jerusalem: A city bound by poverty
30/07/2022
According to a report of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Studies (JIPS) published in May 2022, as well as a Ce...

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