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62 unusual facts about Jerusalem


4 Baruch

The Lord reveals to Jeremiah that Jerusalem will be destroyed because of the impiety of the Israelites.

Aaron Antonovsky

For a time he held positions in Jerusalem at the Israeli Institute for Applied Social Research and in the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hadassah.

Adel Zawati

He later moved to Jerusalem to work as secretary to the British High Commissioner in Jerusalem.

AKBAN

The school was founded in 1986 in Jerusalem by a senior instructor of Doron Navon, the first non Japanese Shihan in Bujinkan Ninjutsu school.

Amir Drori

Between 1961 and 1964 Drori had studied Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, participating in several digs, including that of Yigael Yadin at Masada.

Anton Christian Bang

As a Bishop in Oslo and with his close ties to the royal house, he represented several national missions, including at the inauguration of the German Redemption Church in Jerusalem 1898.

Armand Phillip Bartos

Though highly active as a philanthropist, Bartos became primarily known as the co-designer of Shrine of the Book that houses the Dead Sea Scrolls in western Jerusalem.

Australian rules football in the Middle East

Australian Rules in Israel has been played sporadically since at least 1995, when a group of around 20 players began regular social matches in Tel Aviv, although most of the players were based in Jerusalem.

Bernard Avishai

Bernard Avishai, Adjunct Professor of Business, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, splits his time between Jerusalem and Wilmot, New Hampshire.

Bridie O'Flaherty

Her achievements as Mayor included signing the official charter twinning Galway and Seattle, been guest of honor at the Saint Patrick's Day Parade in 1981 in South Boston and in 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee, and representing Galway during visits to L'Orient, Amsterdam, and Jerusalem.

Burton Lazars

The Order of Saint Lazarus established leper hospitals with the first being in Jerusalem in the year 530.

Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu

The Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu is a Roman Catholic church located on the eastern slope of Mount Zion, just outside the Old (walled) City of Jerusalem.

Church of Zion

Church of Zion, Jerusalem, a presumed 4th Century Jewish congregation in Jerusalem

Clarence Jordan

The Cotton Patch series used American analogies for places in the New Testament; Rome became Washington, D.C., Judaea became Georgia (the Governor of Judaea became the Governor of Georgia), Jerusalem became Atlanta, and Bethlehem became Gainesville, Georgia.

Courtland, Virginia

Originally named Jerusalem, the town was given its present name in 1888.

Dominic Waghorn

He was formerly Sky News' Asia Correspondent, based in Beijing and Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem.

In late 2006, Waghorn became Sky News’ Middle East Correspondent, based in Jerusalem.

Edward Kirk Warren

Warren was the president of the International Sunday School Association of North America and oversaw the World's Sunday School Convention in 1904 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Edwin Atherton

After graduation, he entered the consular service (1916) where during World War I he served in Italy, Bulgaria and Jerusalem.

Elevation of the Holy Cross

For the next three hundred years, the Cross stayed in the possession of the Christians in Jerusalem, but the city was captured by the Persians in 614 AD and the Cross fell into their hands.

Epidemiology of herpes simplex

Antibodies for HSV-1 or HSV-2 are also more likely to be found individuals born outside of Israel, and individuals residing in Jerusalem and Southern Israel; people of Jewish origin living in Israel are less likely to possess antibodies against herpes.

Harriet Livermore

Also contrary to the teachings of the Millerites, Livermore believed that the site of Christ's return would be the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem; and in 1837 she made the first of five journeys there.

Hascombe

St Peter's church was rebuilt during the mid-19th century, but retains its medieval screen, made from Jerusalem olive trees and featuring elaborate carvings, and a font dating back to 1690.

History of Jerusalem during the Crusader period

The Church of St. Anne became a madrasa, and other churches were destroyed and their stones used to repair damage from the siege.

International Congress of Human Genetics

Congresses have been held in such diverse venues as Berlin, Brisbane, Chicago, The Hague, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna and Washington.

Israel Aharoni

Many of his collected specimens can still be viewed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Issamar Ginzberg

He is the founder and CEO of Monetized Intellect Consulting, a business and marketing firm with offices in New York City and Jerusalem.

Jérusalem

It was the one opera which he regarded as the most suitable for being translated into French and, taking Scribe's advice, Verdi agreed that a French libretto was to be prepared by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, who had written the libretto for Donizetti's most successful French opera, La favorite.

Jerusalem-Yerushalayim

The oratorio is in four parts of three movements each, plus a coda The Peace of Jerusalem which was premiered one year earlier in Israel by Jeremy Summerly and The Choir of London.

Jerusalem, Arkansas

Public education for elementary and secondary school students is provided by the Wonderview School District, which leads students to graduate from Wonderview High School.

Jerusalem, Lincolnshire

Simon Sebag Montefiore states that the village dates back to this period, when 'pilgrimage to Jerusalem' was "wildly popular" but traveling to the city of Jerusalem was either not a practical proposition or it was too hostile a location.

João do Rio

In November, makes his third voyage to Europe, having visited Lisbon (where his play A Bela Madame Vargas – The Beautiful Madame Vargas – is staged with great success), Paris, Germany, Istanbul, Russia, Greece, Jerusalem and Cairo.

Jonah Lotan

Lotan was born Yair Lotan in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 3, 1973, and grew up in Jerusalem and the U.S. state of New York.

Judicial system of Israel

Located in Jerusalem, the Supreme Court acts as a further appellate court, hearing both criminal and civil cases.

Kenana ibn al-Rabi

Kenana is said to have urged Muhammad to give up the custom during prayer of turning his face toward Mecca ("Qiblah") in favor of Jerusalem, as had been the custom in Islam at first.

La Matanza de Acentejo

Currently under construction is a scale replica of the interior of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (the place where according to Christian tradition, was taken the body of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion), the replica will be located in the plaza of El Salvador's municipality.

Live in Israel

The DVD also contains interviews and documentary footage shot in and around Jerusalem.

Lives of the Prophets

Isaiah: said to be of Jerusalem, suffered martyrdom by being sawn in two by Manasseh (in agreement with the Martyrdom of Isaiah), buried near a place usually identified by scholars as the Pool of Siloam.

Haggai: said to come in Jerusalem from Babylonia when he was young, and he saw the reconstruction of the Temple.

Münchenbuchsee

The knight Kuno von Buchsee donated his entire possessions to the Order of St. John after having returned for the third time from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Oszkár Molnár

Molnár also claimed that the language of instruction in Jerusalem schools was Hungarian and they were "learning the language of their future homeland."

Otto Depenheuer

He has performed at organ concerts in Germany and at Notre Dame de Paris, Jerusalem, New York, Singapore and Cracow.

Otto Toeplitz

In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine, where he was scientific advisor to the rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Pietro Della Valle

He arrived there on the 8th of March, 1616, in time to take part in the Easter celebrations at Jerusalem.

Salem Municipality

The name traces its origins from Slaem in the 16th century, but was later changed to Salem, the Biblical name of Jerusalem.

Samuel David Mendelssohn

Samuel David Nathaniel Aaron Mendelssohn (May 17, 1942 Jerusalem–September 16, 2006), known as Samuel David Mendelssohn, was a German political scientist, author and independent politician for the Free Democrats.

Saussurea costus

The ketoret was an important component of the Temple service in Jerusalem.

Shariah TV

The series returned on 5 June 2007 (at 00:10) for a four-part special from the city of Jerusalem.

Silver Jew

Shot in just three days with no production budget, the film chronicles the band's stop in Israel to play two shows in Tel Aviv and visit Jerusalem during their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006.

St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem

St. George's College is located on the grounds.

St. Toros Church

It is located next to the St. James' Cathedral.

Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia

He was also taking care of few churches and monasteries from Bari to the west, to Jerusalem to the east.

The Chronoliths

With Sue's team, Scott witnesses a new chronolith that appears in Jerusalem.

The Human Resources Manager

The first half of the film is set in, and was filmed in, Jerusalem, while the second half was filmed in Romania, although the name of the country is never specified in the film.

Topusko

King Andrija II goes to the holy war to Jerusalem at the beginning of the 13th century, and makes a vow that in case he comes back he will build a monastery and an abbey in Topusko, in token of gratitude.

Unusuality Productions

Belonging was Tariq Nasir's directorial debut, and tells the story of how Nasir's family lost their home in Jerusalem during the Six-Day War with Israel.

Va, pensiero

Known as Verdi's "Jewish" work of art, it recollects the story of Jewish exiles in Babylon after the loss of the First Temple in Jerusalem.

Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon

He gained a measure of comfort and fulfillment when he was selected in 1965 as the first Hungarian Righteous among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Institute of Jerusalem.

Walkelin de Derby

According to some reports, Walkelin died in 1190 at the Siege of Acre, Jerusalem.

William Lovell Hull

After working in Winnipeg for some years, and being ordained to the ministry, he moved to Jerusalem, Palestine in 1935 having received a "call from God" during a service at Zion Apostolic Church.

Yadin Dudai

After working as a professional journalist and news editor for a leading Israeli daily, he switched to study biochemistry and genetics, with supplements in modern history, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem

According to local legend it takes its name from the 12th Century Crusades to the Holy Land: legend has it that knights who answered the calls of Richard I to join the crusades stopped off at this watering hole for a pint on their way to Jerusalem.


Ailamari Vehviläinen

Ailamari returned to the Tangomarkkinat in 2006, not to compete, but to take part in the show Valkokengas tanssi ja soi (The silver screen dances and plays) along with Mira Kunnasluoto, Erkki Räsänen, and Rami Rafael; and in a church concert, where she sang Jerusalem (not the unofficial English national anthem by William Blake).

Angel Kreiman Brill

In 1995, Kreiman returned to Chile to the southern city of Concepción, and in 2011 moved to Jerusalem.

Ariel String Quartet

In addition to performing the traditional quartet repertoire, the Ariel Quartet regularly collaborates with many Israeli and non-Israeli musicians and composers, including pianists Roman Rabinovich, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Stefano Miceli and Yaron Kohlberg; the Jerusalem String Quartet; composers Matan Porat, Matti Kovler, and Menachem Wiesenberg; clarinetist Moran Katz; violist Roger Tapping; and the Zukerman Chamber Players.

Avogadro

Albert Avogadro (1149–1214), canon lawyer and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Avraham Biran

Biran returned to Jerusalem in 1935, serving as a Fellow in the American Schools of Oriental Research until 1937, participating in a number of archaeological digs, including Tel Halifa near Aqaba, digs near the cities of Mosul and Baghdad in Iraq, Irbid in Jordan and Ras El Haruba outside Jerusalem.

Battle of Gibeah

A Levite came to Jebus (Jerusalem, which was a non-Israelite city until its conquest by King David), but rejects a suggestion from his servant to spend the night there, and heads for Gibeah with his concubine.

Bekishe

Those members of these movements centred in Jerusalem or one of the Jerusalem-affiliated suburbs such as Beitar Illit, Ramat Beit Shemesh or Modi'in Illit wear these gold coats.

Bob Shaheen

The group met at the Jerusalem International YMCA where Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby was quoted as saying "Here is a place whose atmosphere is peace, where political, and religious jealousies can be forgotten and international unity fostered and developed".

Chicken Soup with Barley

It is the first of a trilogy and was first performed on stage in 1958 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where Wesker's two other plays of that trilogy—Roots and I'm Talking About Jerusalem—also premiered.

David Conforte

The original manuscript was brought from Egypt by R. David Ashkenazi of Jerusalem, who, to judge from a note in his preface, gave it the title Ḳore ha-Dorot, and had it printed in Venice in 1746, without mentioning the name of the author.

Dubiecko

The young Rebbe of the town perished with his wife in Przemyśl, after returning from Jerusalem to Poland just before the war.

Emergency Bandage

The application allowed Bar-Natan to become a part of a technology incubator program in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim, with a government grant covering 3/4 of the expenses connected to the research and development of the bandage.

Great Cities of the Ancient World

The work is a study of the ethnology, history, geography, and everyday life in such famous ancient capital cities as Thebes, Jerusalem, Nineveh, Tyre, Babylon, Memphis, Athens, Syracuse, Alexandria, Anuradhapura, Rome, Pataliputra, and Constantinople.

Ithobaal III

Ithobaal III (Latin Ithobalus, Hebrew Ethbaal), was recorded by Josephus as the king on the list of kings of Tyre reigning 591/0-573/2 BCE at the time of the first fall of Jerusalem, and therefore the subject of Ezekiel's cherub in Eden.

Jerusalem artichoke

Despite its name, the Jerusalem artichoke has no relation to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though both are members of the daisy family.

Jerusalem Christian Review

Leaders such as Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and numerous U.S. Senators, as well as former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke all prayed for the "Peace of Jerusalem".

Jerusalem Music Centre

The Jerusalem Music Centre was established in 1973, at the initiative of the violinist and educator Isaac Stern, Jerusalem’s mayor at the time, Teddy Kollek, and British philosopher Isaiah Berlin.

John-Laffnie de Jager

De Jager won back-to-back challenger events in doubles in September 1991, partnering compatriots, in Madeira partnering Byron Talbot and in Jerusalem with Christo van Rensburg.

Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre

In England, Henry promulgated the Saladin tithe to pay for the crusade; this was perhaps influenced by the 1183 tax in Jerusalem, which Joscius may have mentioned to him at Gisors.

Judaization of Jerusalem

According to Ian Lustick, Dore Gold, as advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996, opposed any compromise with Palestinians on their claim to a capital in Jerusalem, and advised a unilateral Judaization of the whole area.

Kyrenia Castle

After a short period, Richard sold the island to the Knights Templar, and then to his cousin Guy de Lusignan, the former king of Jerusalem.

Liat Cohen

Cohen has played at the Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels), Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Salle Cortot (Paris), the National Theatre of Costa Rica, the Opéra national de Montpellier, the Musée des Invalides (Paris), the Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles), The Palais des congrès de Lyon, the Jerusalem Theatre (Tel Aviv), and the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

Live – På ren svenska

Live – På ren svenska is the second live album, and the fourteenth album overall, by the Swedish hard rock band Jerusalem, released in 1999.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

Mekimi

Based in Jerusalem and established in 2011, Mekimi is not a sectorial organization yet the majority of families seeking help from Mekimi come from the National Religious segment.

Melechesh

The band started their career in Jerusalem (and Bethlehem) and operated from there between 1993–1998; however, they have resided mainly in Amsterdam since 1998 for several personal, professional and demographic reasons.

Musalaha

Seeking and Pursuing Peace: the Process, the Pain, and the Product, Edited by Salim J. Munayer (Jerusalem: Yanetz Ltd., 1998)
This book is a series of articles by Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian leaders, such as Naim Ateek and Arnold Fruchtenbaum, as well as others, on the topic of peace and peacemaking.

My Sweet Canary

In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika.

Nephi, son of Helaman

In 91 ROJ (1 BC), Nephi turned "the plates of brass, and all the records which had been kept, and all those things which had been kept sacred from the departure of Lehi out of Jerusalem" over to his eldest son, also named Nephi.

Pavel Svedomsky

Working in the St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kiev, Svedosmky painted the northern and southern naves of the cathedral, creating six scenes from the life of Jesus: The Resurrection of Lazarus, The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem, The Last Supper, The Agony in the Garden, The Trial of Pilate, The Crucifixion and The Ascension.

Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles

:* Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Ypres 1917, Cambrai 1917, St. Quentin, Ancre 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Pursuit to Mons, France and Flanders 1915-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17, Gaza, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18

Queen Mary

Maria of Montferrat (1192–1212), queen regnant of Jerusalem, daughter of Isabella I of Jerusalem and Conrad of Montferrat and mother of Isabella II of Jerusalem

Ruth Perednik

She has developed a treatment method for Selective Mutism based on cognitive behavioral techniques, in the framework of her work in the Jerusalem Psychological Services in the Jerusalem Municipality.

Saussurea costus

It was offered on the specialized incense altar in the time when the Tabernacle was located in the First and Second Jerusalem Temples.

Snow White and The Madness of Truth

Reactions to the piece have been compared to reactions to Steve Earle's song "John Walker's blues", which appeared on his 2002 album "Jerusalem".

Testamentum Domini

The Conclusion (book 2:25-27) brings us back to the injunctions of the Lord as to the keeping of these precepts, a special charge to John, Andrew and Peter, and a statement that copies of the Testament were made by John, Peter and Matthew, and sent to Jerusalem by the hands of Dosithaeus, Sillas, Magnus and Aquila.

The Unholy Pilgrim

Tancred is a young Norman knight on pilgrimage to Jerusalem; not for the salvation of his soul, but for the recovery of his honor and his inheritance.

Tore Svennberg

Svennberg also appeared in a number of films, beginning in the Victor Sjöström-directed 1919 drama Sons of Ingmar, based on the novel Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf, and performed in his last film role at the age of 82 in Per Lindberg's 1940 drama Stål.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

The mystery of Mary's immaculate conception was also implied in depictions of her parents' chaste embrace meeting at the Golden Gate, the threshold of the Holy city of Jerusalem, a convention that symbolizes close proximity to (and participation with) the celestial Kingdom.

William F. Albright

He was also the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922–1929, 1933–1936, and did important archaeological work at such sites in Israel as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933–1936).

Willis Page

He was also the associate conductor in Buffalo, New York, where he conducted three quarters of all concerts and has been guest conductor for several orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra (seven times), Denver, St Louis, Rochester, Hartford, Muncie, Yomiuri, Toronto and Jerusalem.

Yariv Levin

Levin was born in Jerusalem to Gail and Aryeh Levin, an Israel Prize laureate for general linguistics, His mother's uncle, Eliyahu Lankin, was commander of the Altalena ship and member of the first Knesset representing Herut, whilst Menachem Begin was the Sandek at Levin's circumcision ceremony.

Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu

Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu (ישיבת אדרת אליהו), commonly referred to as "Zilberman's," is a Haredi, Lithuanian educational facility located between the Jewish and Muslim quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Zikhron Moshe

It was one of several neighborhoods in Jerusalem named for Sir Moses Montefiore.