Jerusalem: History, Identity, and the Challenge of Coexistence – ROI Summit Briefing

Miri leads an in-depth, interactive lecture on Jerusalem's complex history, focusing on how the city's physical and symbolic boundaries—its walls, lines, and names—have changed over 3,000 years. She traces the city’s evolution from King David’s era through the First and Second Temple periods, Roman and Byzantine rule, Islamic conquests, Crusader domination, the Ottoman legacy, the British Mandate, and into the modern era. Throughout, Miri interrogates the ideas of constancy and change, religious freedom (or its absence), and the interplay between security and accessibility.