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62 unusual facts about 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.

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.

Canadian federal election, 1980

Clark and his government had been under attack for its perceived inexperience, for example, in its handling of its 1979 election campaign commitment to move Canada's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Carl Julian Sanders

He was the Co-Founder of the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies for Educational Opportunities, Inc. of Lakeland, Florida, also serving on its Board of Directors (1976-2000).

Christianity in Ethiopia

The head of the Ethiopian church has been appointed by the patriarch of the Coptic church in Egypt, and Ethiopian monks had certain rights in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross

The Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross is a Roman Catholic church located within the Franciscan compound that also contains the Church of the Flagellation in the old city of Jerusalem.

Church of the Pater Noster

The crusader era church was heavily damaged during the Siege of Jerusalem in 1187, eventually being abandoned and falling into ruin in 1345.

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

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

Dume

By providential provision, the emissaries of the king met with Martin of Pannonia, (later to be canonized and known as Martin of Dume) who was heading from Jerusalem to Gaul, to the tomb of his namesake and compatriot.

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.

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.

Eric Harper

In 1918, while serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I, he was killed in action in Jerusalem; becoming one of 11 New Zealand rugby internationals to die during the conflict.

Esther Delisle

She then studied for three years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before returning to Laval to complete her doctorate, following which she did post-doctoral studies at the department of history at McGill University.

European Center for Leadership Development

It seeks to contribute, on a global basis, to the creation of a leadership culture rooted in the moral, intellectual and spiritual heritage of Athens, Rome and Jerusalem.

Glasgow Chronology

Thus Hatshepsut, who visited the Divine Land, was equated with the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon in Jerusalem, whilst Thutmose III, who followed Hatshepsut, was equated with Shishaq, who plundered the Jerusalem temple after the death of Solomon.

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.

Healers of the Dead Sea

Allegro aimed to increase public interest in the discovery by letting them imagine their way around the various features, showing it's orientation towards Jerusalem where the expected river of life-giving waters were assumed to have come from in some prophesied time in the future.

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.

In paradisum

:May angels lead you into paradise; upon your arrival, may the martyrs receive you and lead you to the holy city of Jerusalem.

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 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-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.

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.

Jon Åker

Following a leave to serve as manager of the refugee hospital Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem, he was promoted to financial director at Akershus University Hospital.

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.

Lawshall Green

Charles Frederick Tyrwitt Drake died on 23 June 1878 and was buried in Jerusalem.

Lives of the Prophets

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

Nottingham Castle

The castle was the site of a decisive siege when King Richard I, returned to England and besieged the castle with the siege machines he had used at 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.

Percival Stacy Waddy

He was at Jerusalem for over five years, and in July 1924 was appointed secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

Phosphine

On January 2014, a whole family in Jerusalem was poisoned from phosphine after a section of their apartment was fumigated for pests, and some of the young children died from the poisoning.

Pietro Della Valle

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

Reinhard Bendix

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Richard Clough

By virtue of his visit to Jerusalem, he became a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre.

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.

Sarit Kraus

She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Hebrew University in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Lehmann.

Saussurea costus

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

Tamar Kaprelian

On her father's side, her grandfather George Mardirossian was born in Jerusalem and her grandmother Victoria Ewin was born in Liverpool.

The Chronoliths

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

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.

United States of Islam

The album is dedicated to "Palestinians killed by Israel on 'Allthnen As Aswad' (Black Monday) at Temple Mount in occupied Jerusalem".

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.

Walls of Jerusalem National Park

The park takes its name from the geological features of the park which are thought to resemble the walls of the city of Jerusalem.

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.


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.

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.

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.

Avrohom Yissochor Englard

The Rebbe also established the Radziner Yeshiva Sod Y'sharim in Jerusalem, the Radziner Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo in Bnei Brak, the Radziner Yeshiva Tiferes Yosef in Bnei Brak, with many Kollelim located in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Haifa.

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.

Biblical Hebrew

Paleo-Hebrew text reads שמעון ("Simeon") on front and לחרות ירושלם ("for the freedom of Jerusalem") on back.

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.

Corinthian bronze

The Beautiful Gate (or Nicanor Gate) of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, mentioned in the Book of Acts 3:2–10, was a large, 18 metre (60 feet) wide structure said to be either solid, or covered in plates of, Corinthian brass.

Earthdance

Earthdance events have supported hundreds of charitable organizations including:Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Sierra Club, Salvation Army, Orphanage in Kijaszkowo, Natural Resources Defense Council, Amnesty International, Aboriginal Health Center, Aqua for All, Circle of Life, Citizens for Peace, Friends of the Mississippi River, Jerusalem Peace Makers, and the Oshkosh Rhythm Institute.

Emmaus

Many sites have been suggested for the biblical Emmaus, among them Emmaus Nicopolis (ca. 160 stadia from Jerusalem), Kiryat Anavim (66 stadia from Jerusalem on the carriage road to Jaffa), Coloniya (36 stadia on the carriage road to Jaffa), el-Kubeibeh (63 stadia, on the Roman road to Lydda), Artas (60 stadia from Jerusalem) and Khurbet al-Khamasa (86 stadia on the Roman road to Eleutheropolis).

Godric of Finchale

Upon Aelric's death, Godric made one last pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and then returned home where he convinced Ranulf Flambard, the Bishop of Durham, to grant him a place to live as a hermit at Finchale, by the River Wear.

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.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

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.

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.

Kfar Uria

In the 1929 Palestine riots Arab rioters from Jerusalem attacked Kfar Uria.

Kirpal Singh

In 1962 he was the first non-Christian to be vested with The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta), for his spiritual and humanitarian mission.

Kroke

During a promotional concert for the album, the band met Steven Spielberg, who invited them to perform at the “Survivors Reunion” concert in Jerusalem, Israel and during the Polish premier of the film Schindler’s List.

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.

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.

Ma'alot Dafna

René Cassin High School serves the secular population of the northern Jerusalem neighborhoods.

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.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Miracle of the Holy Fire

Holy Fire a religious ceremony of the Greek Orthodox church in Jerusalem

Museo Matris Domini

There is another series of frescoes of great emotive and narrative quality, representing Jesus among the Doctors, the Baptism, the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Saint Catherine of Alexandria upon the Wheel, Saint Martin and the Pauper, Jesus entering Jerusalem, and the Miracle of the reanimation of Napoleone Orsini by Saint Dominic, showing the young man falling from his horse.

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.

New Jerusalem

Other sects, such as various Protestant denominations, modernist branches of Christianity, Mormonism and Reform Judaism, view the New Jerusalem as figurative, or believe that such a renewal may have already taken place, or that it will take place at some other location besides the Temple Mount.

Odo de St Amand

It was so effective that Saladin's May assault on Jerusalem in 1179 was defeated.

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

Raquela Prywes

Raquela Prywes (Hebrew: רחלה פריבס; born Raquela Levy, 1924 in Jerusalem; died March, 1985) was a nurse in Israel, trained in midwifery, and obstetrics, at the Hadassah Medical Center.

Rebecca Marshall

And again, with Marshall as Poppea and Boutell as Cyara in Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero (1674); as Queen Berenice and Clarona in John Crowne's The Destruction of Jerusalem (1677); and as Roxana and Statira in Lee's The Rival Queens (also 1677).

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.

Sampson Simson

In 1888, the New York State Supreme Court decided that the sum, plus thirty years' interest, was to be paid to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem.

Shamai Haber

In 1965 he worked with Yitzhak Danziger to create a sculpture at entrance to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem which was the largest sculpture ever erected in Israel.

Tahrif

He explains how the falsification of the Torah could have taken place while there existed only one copy of the Torah kept by the Aaronic priesthood of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Eagle in the Sand

Bannus, a local tribesman, is brewing up rebellion amongst the followers of Jehoshua, who was crucified in Jerusalem some seventeen years earlier.

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.

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.

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.

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.