The Jerusalem Foundation’s 2023 Innovation Fund Awards Grants to 65 Cultural and Community-Based Initiatives
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Photo credit: Vadim Mikhailov
Photo credit: Meredith Holbrooke
Photo credit: Vadim Mikhailov
The Jerusalem Foundation
Over the last five decades, the Jerusalem Foundation has brought together friends from around the world to invest more than $1.5 billion dollars in projects throughout the city. Through over 4000 initiatives, both capital and long-running programs, the Foundation has touched the lives of all of Jerusalem’s more than 900,000 residents, in all spheres of life and in all the city’s communities.
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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.
Shared Living Tour in Canada, April 30 – May 12
CEO of Tene Yerushalmi announced winner of the Jerusalem Young Leadership Prize
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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 current JF President Shai Doron
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
