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Israelis in Jerusalem are seen protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fire defense minister Yoav Gallant, near the Prime Minister’s Residence, Nov. 6, 2024.

Year in review: What were the biggest events, stories in Jerusalem of 2024?

The Israel-Hamas War (Illustrative)

14 Days: Hamas war

Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Second round of municipal election held in 35 cities

By ELIAV BREUER

Haifa Mayoral candidate David Etzioni casts his ballot at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Haifa, on February 27, 2024.

Second round of municipal election ballots open in 35 cities

By ELIAV BREUER

Victorious: Moshe Lion celebrates his Feb. 27 mayoral win.

What the key players think of Jerusalem's municipal elections

Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

35 municipalities to hold second election round on Sunday

By ELIAV BREUER

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest outside the city of Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024

Israel's haredi IDF draft bill expected to advance in Knesset this week

By ELIAV BREUER

EHUDA RAVEH, chairman of the Friends of Anu Museum, flanked by his wife, Tami (right), and Rina Meshel Grunis.

Grapevine, March 3, 2024: Women underrepresented in municipal councils

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Jerusalem municipal elections: Who won? What happens next?

An Israeli municipal elections voting box.

Grapevine: Voting tradition

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

The writer, Aaron Reich, is seen with their cat, Medici (full name HaRav Medici di Cuddlebutt Reich) waiting to vote in Jerusalem for the municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

De-meow-crat-ya: Taking my cat to vote in municipal elections

Campaign posters at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2024

Reflecting on the municipal elections through a Talmudic lens

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN

Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Zvika Klein and former communications minister Yoaz Hendel

IDF reservists could be the key to Israel's political future

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israeli selects his ballot paper on the day of Israel's general election in a polling station in Jerusalem November 1, 2022.

Tuesday's election was a reminder of what clean politics could look like

By ELIAV BREUER

Supporters seen during the municipal elections in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2024

Israel's municipal elections: The big victories, shocking defeats and hottest races

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Moshe Lion in a speech on February 27, 2024.

Lion victorious in Jerusalem in landslide victory; Huldai wins in Tel Aviv

By ELIAV BREUER , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

From right to left: Prof. Adir Pridor, Chairman of HITS’s Executive Committee, Pinchas (Pini) Cohen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of HIT, Moti Sasson, Mayor of Holon, HIT President Professor Eduard Yakubov, and Shmuel Goldberg, HIT CEO.

Holon Mayor Moti Sasson ousted after 30 years in office

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Beit Shemesh mayor and Mayoral candidate Aliza Bloch casts her ballot at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Beit Shemesh, February 27, 2024.

American olim in Beit Shemesh may tip the scales in the mayoral election

By Yinon Shalom Yitach , Jerusalem Post Staff