On Tuesday, 24 Elul, the Jerusalem Municipal Names Committee convened to discuss the names of streets and squares in the city. The committee, headed by Deputy Mayor Yael Antebi, decided to commemorate people and locate people whose names have already been approved.

Minister Uri Orbach will be memorialized in the street on the slopes of Massuah.
Danny Angel, a mythological figure in Jerusalem who owns the Angel Bakery, will be memorialized on a Har Chotzvim Street.

Shmuel Ben Artzi, a writer, poet and educator (the father of Sarah Netanyahu) will be memorialized in a square near Kiryat HaLeom (The National Precinct).

Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manito), a thinker and leader of French Jewry, will be memorialized in the neighborhood of Chomat Shmuel (Har Choma).

Sara HaKetana (Livni), Etzel fighter and the wife of Eitan Livni (Tzipi Livni’s mother) will be memorialized on the street in Kiryat HaLeom.

Rebitzen Bracha Kapach, a social activist, will be joining the name of her husband’s street Rabbi Yosef Kapach, who will henceforth be called Yosef and Bracha Kapach.

Other names that were approved include: Rabbi Menachem Batzri, Chacham Chutcha Eliyahu, Menashe Kadishman and David Susanna.

Committee chairwoman, Deputy Mayor Yael Antebi, said she was happy to find places for names that had been approved in the past and welcomes the decisions of the committee that during her tenure as chairperson gives affirmative action to women and Sephardim.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)