Sun-Times Media Group was a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.
Menachem Ussishkin was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund.
The Jerusalem Report is a fortnightly print and online news magazine that covers political, economic, social and cultural issues in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Caroline Glick is an American-born Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, and writer. She writes for Makor Rishon and is the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post. She is also the Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington, DC-based Center for Security Policy, and a regular columnist at Breitbart.
Uri Yehuda Ariel is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for The Jewish Home, and as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
David Hazony is an American-born Israeli writer, translator, and editor. He was the founding editor of The Tower Magazine from 2013 to 2017, and is currently executive director of the Israel Innovation Fund.
Nachlaot is a grouping of 23 courtyard neighborhoods in central Jerusalem, Israel, known for its narrow, winding lanes, old-style housing, hidden courtyards and many small synagogues. Neighborhoods in Nachlaot include Batei Broide, Batei Munkacs, Batei Rand, Knesset Yisrael, Mazkeret Moshe, Mishkenot Yisrael, Nahalat Ahim, Neve Betzalel, Neve Shalom), Ohel Moshe, Shevet Ahim, Sukkat Shalom, Zikhron Tuvya, and Zikhron Yosef.
Rehavia, also Rechavia, is an upscale Jerusalem neighborhood located between the city center and Talbiya.
Mordechai Piron was the second chief military rabbi in the history of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after his predecessor, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, created the position in 1948. Rabbi Piron served in the position from 1969 to 1980, with a rank of general. Upon his retirement from his IDF position, he relocated to Zürich, to serve till 1992 as rabbi of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), the biggest Jewish congregation in Switzerland.
Nir Barkat is an Israeli businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. He was first elected mayor of Jerusalem in 2008, and was re-elected for a second term in 2013. During his tenure, Barkat has "embraced new data-driven tools in hopes of improving life for all of his constituents", working to enhance culture, promote tourism, address social welfare issues, encourage the development of local high-tech, and provide opportunities for the ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities in Jerusalem.
Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi is an American-born Rabbi who was named as Dean of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion campus in Jerusalem starting in July 2009. In 1992, Kelman made history as the first woman in Israel to become a rabbi when she received her rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk.
Yehuda Avner was an Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author. He served as Speechwriter and Secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. Avner served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York, and the Israeli Embassy to the US in Washington, DC, and as Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia. In 2010, he turned his insider stories about Israeli politics and diplomacy into a bestselling book, The Prime Ministers, which subsequently became the basis for a two-part documentary movie. In 2015, his novel, The Ambassador, which Avner co-authored with thriller writer Matt Rees, was posthumously published.
Events in the year 2000 in Israel.
Yosef Abramowitz is President and CEO of Energiya Global Capital as well as co-founder of the Arava Power Company. He is an activist and former candidate for President of Israel.
Ludwig Mayer, an Israeli bookseller, was born in Prenzlau (1879) to a family of Jewish wool merchants. After apprenticing as a bookseller he moved to Ottoman Palestine in 1908 to open the region's first modern book-store in Jerusalem. His shop was a fixture in Palestine, serving an illustrious clientele that included Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and David Ben Gurion. He died in Jerusalem in 1978.
Rachel Azaria, is an Israeli politician, currently serving as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu. She previously served as deputy mayor and member of the Jerusalem City Council.
Yehuda Joshua Glick is an American-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician. He campaigns for expanding Jewish access to the Temple Mount. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Likud, having taken the place of former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in May 2016.
Mahane Yehuda is a historic neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel. Established on the north side of Jaffa Road in 1887, it was planned and managed by the consortium of Swiss-Christian banker Johannes Frutiger and his Jewish partners, Joseph Navon and Shalom Konstrum. By the end of the 19th century, it encompassed 162 homes. Originally occupied by upper middle-class residents, it became a working-class neighborhood beginning in the late 1920s. Today the neighborhood is part of Nachlaot. The Mahane Yehuda Market located across the street was named after the neighborhood.
On October 4, 2017, Reuven Shmerling (70), a Jewish man from Elkana, was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a warehouse owned by his son in an industrial zone of the Arab-Israeli city of Kfar Qasim in a terrorist attack carried out by two young Palestinian men who had entered Israel illegally. The two murderers claimed to be acting to avenge the death of a man from their town who was shot and killed by police when he was part of a group of three armed terrorists who murdered an Israeli policewoman at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate in February 2016.
