SidraTarbut: 40 Days of Summer Culture Events Throughout Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Foundation
Jerusalem is more than a city – it’s a living, breathing tapestry of culture, history, and community.
The Jerusalem Foundation ensures it remains vibrant, inclusive, and thriving for generations to come.
Join us in strengthening and shaping Jerusalem as a city of innovation, diversity, and inspiration.
Communal Strength
Creative Culture
Future Leadership
JERUSALEM 2030
The Jerusalem Foundation ensures that Jerusalem's diverse residents can continue to build a modern, open and vibrant city together. With a special focus on the social and communal needs of the city's most vulnerable populations, we effectively strengthen the social fabric and community support systems of Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem Foundation leverages the city's diversity and unique history to shape its future as a modern, thriving, metropolis by providing platforms for its varied populations to find expression through creativity. Creative initiatives breathe new life into the city, enhancing its vibrancy and openness, and ensuring that it continues to be a source ofinspiration around the world.
The Jerusalem Foundation focuses on developing leadership and excellence in the city through its involvement in community activism and investment in the next generation. By promoting young civil leadership with a long term commitment to the city, and guaranteeing that all diverse communities have access to opportunities to excel, we safeguard the future.
The Jerusalem Foundation celebrates 60 years of strengthening, enriching and serving Jerusalem
The Shai Doron Leadership Fellows Program is launched
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Your Share In Jerusalem
Join us in strengthening Jerusalem, an ancient city becoming a center for youthful creativity, innovation, inclusiveness and pluralism; an open city functioning as the civil society capital of Israel and the Jewish people; a livable city for young families; an inspiration to the world. DONATEFROM OUR ARCHIVE
Teddy Kollek, former Mayor and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation, with American actor Elliott Gould in Mishkenot Shaananim
Teddy Kollek, former Mayor and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation, with former JF President Shai Doron z"l
Teddy Kollek pinning the city emblem on to the lapel of President Ephraim Katzir, 1973
Teddy Kollek with PM David Ben Gurion. Yitzchak Navon, President Ben Zvi, and Knesset Speaker Sprinzak at the first Bible Quiz
President Ezer Weizman meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek in 1993
PM Yitzchak Rabin and Mayor Teddy Kollek talking to students at the Meyerhoff Library, 1974
PM Yitzchak Rabin meeting with Mayor Teddy Kollek, 1992
PM Yitzchak Shamir and Mayor Teddy Kollek on the walls of the Tower of David Museum in the Old City
PM Shamir presenting Mayor Teddy Kollek with a book of poems for his 80th birthday
