14 September 2020 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean
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U.S. Vice President and possible future U.S. President Joe Biden meets With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
© U.S. Department of State/Matty Stern
Beit Aghion, also known as Beit Rosh HaMemshala (
House of the Prime Minister) is the
official residence of the
Prime Minister of Israel. It is located at 9
Smolenskin Street, on the street corner of
Balfour Street in the upscale
West Jerusalem neighborhood of
Rehavia, situated between the city center and the
Talbiya neighborhood. The private residence of Netanyahu is located in
Caesarea, north of the ancient city of
Caesarea Palaestinae, where the official residence of the
Roman praeses Pontius Pilate was located (
Pilate stone).
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9 November 2018 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean
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Terra Sancta College on Keren HaYesod Street © Djampa/cc-by-sa-4.0
Rehavia, also Rechavia, is an upscale
West Jerusalem neighborhood located between the city center and
Talbiya. The
Prime Minister‘s Official Residence is the “
Aghion House“, at No. 3
Balfour Street near the corner with
Smolenskin Street. Most of Rehavia’s streets are named after Jewish scholars and poets from the
Golden Age of Jewish culture in Spain. Among them are
Abravanel,
Ben Maimon,
Ibn Ezra,
Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, and
Radak. A glaring omission is the name of
Yehuda Halevy, celebrated physician, poet, and philosopher. Zionist leader
Menachem Ussishkin, who lived on Rechov Yehuda Halevy, changed the name of the street to Rechov Ussishkin in honor of his 70th birthday in 1933, and installed new ceramic signs crafted by local Armenian craftspeople.
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