Ofer Berkovitch

Changes in Jerusalem: What's new in local politics in Israel's capital?

11 months away from the Jerusalem city council and mayoral elections, Ofer Berkovitch’s departure – even if, as he emphasized, being only temporary – shakes things up.

 MAYOR MOSHE LION serving without a city council faction of his own is strange, to say the least. (Pictured: In Sept., visiting Jerusalem students on the first of day school).
 POLITICAL PAST: Ofer Berkovitch hits the Jerusalem streets with the Hitorerut movement.

Jerusalem opposition head Ofer Berkovitch to leave city council

 OPPOSITION HEAD Ofer Berkovitch has been busy.

Countdown to Jerusalem elections begins - Safra Square gets ready

 CANDIDATE OFER BERKOVICH and wife Dina cast their ballots in the November 2018  mayoral election.

This week in Jerusalem: Where do you pray?


What will happen the next Jerusalem election marathon?

Who will be on the next Hitorerut list? For now, Berkovitch is in the arena, getting ready for the next round. But who will follow him two years hence?

 CANDIDATE OFER BERKOVICH and wife Dina cast their ballots in the November 2018  mayoral election.

Jerusalem, according to Ofer Berkovitch

“Moshe Lion is a great CEO, and also a good sanitation department director, but in my opinion, he is not performing as a mayor should.”

 OFER BERKOVITCH campaigns in the last mayoral election, with members of his Hitoreut faction (in bright yellow T-shirts).

Challenging the mayor on coronavirus

The second city lockdown brought to the fore one of the touchiest issues of Lion’s tenure – his commitment to the haredi benches in his coalition.

BERKOVITCH IS incensed by Mayor Moshe Lion’s failure to lockdown haredi neighborhoods like Mea She’arim –pictured over Sukkot on October 8 – in the crisis’s first round.

Challenging the mayor on coronavirus

The second city lockdown brought to the fore one of the touchiest issues of Lion’s tenure – his commitment to the haredi benches in his coalition.

BERKOVITCH IS incensed by Mayor Moshe Lion’s failure to lockdown haredi neighborhoods like Mea She’arim –pictured over Sukkot on October 8 – in the crisis’s first round.

This week in Jerusalem: A round-up of city affairs

The municipality has approved an ambitious project to give a strong boost to the economy and development of east Jerusalem.

Israel's most populous city, Jerusalem, May 13, 2020

From the opposition bench: An interview with Hitorerut's Ofer Berkovitch

Berkovitch spoke to In Jerusalem via phone for this interview.

OFER BERKOVITCH: From obscurity to credibility.

Ofer Berkovitch: Roaring against the 'Lion'

Opposition leader Ofer Berkovitch is hungry to help Jerusalem.

OFER BERKOVITCH: From obscurity to credibility.

Jerusalem round-up by Peggy Cidor

Six new carousel parking installations on track to arrive this week in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood will provide 90 new parking places while using only six parking spaces

SOMEONE AT Safra Square seems, ‘sof sof,’ to have realized that pupils need more time in the educational framework.

Jerusalem politics: The voice of the opposition

“How can you address the pluralist sector’s interests? The parking portfolio, for example, with all due respect, is irrelevant to the needs of the pluralist sector,” said Berkovitch.

OFER BERKOVICH: We began negotiations almost two months ago, right after the elections.

THIS WEEK IN JERUSALEM: PEGGY CIDOR’S ROUND-UP OF CITY AFFAIRS

Members the Hitorerut Party, asked the city’s legal adviser to instruct Mayor Moshe Lion to announce that he has not issued an order to impede contacts between them and civil servants and officials.

HITORERUT LEADER Ofer Berkovitch talks with movement supporters during the mayoral election.

Who’s the boss in Jerusalem? Moshe Lion?

The Hitorerut head claimed that the city is filthy and that Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion is not doing his job andis not fulfilling his pledge to clean the streets.

OFER BERKOVITCH’S Facebook post about the filthy city.