{"id":87324,"date":"2025-08-05T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/?p=87324"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:30:28","slug":"families-find-belonging-in-jerusalems-nighttime-park-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/families-find-belonging-in-jerusalems-nighttime-park-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Families Find Belonging in Jerusalem\u2019s Nighttime Park Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"419\" data-end=\"659\">In a city often defined by division, conflict, and tension, a simple initiative is quietly reshaping how Jerusalem\u2019s families spend their summer: pitching tents, turning off screens, and rediscovering each other in the open air<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"1130\"><strong data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"707\">A night of unity in a fragmented Jerusalem<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"1130\">This August, public parks across Jerusalem are hosting overnight camping events for local families. Known as &#8220;Camping in the Garden,&#8221; the project invites residents to set up tents just outside their homes \u2013 in familiar neighborhood parks \u2013 and enjoy a full night of community-based activities: storytelling, children\u2019s workshops, music performances, movie screenings under the stars, and even guided stargazing sessions<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1516\">The initiative, led by the Youth Authority of the Jerusalem Municipality, is part of a broader vision: to create shared civic space in a city marked by difference. From Gonenim and Armon Hanatziv to Givat Mordechai and the French Hill, families from different backgrounds \u2013 secular and religious, old and new immigrants, Jewish and Arab \u2013 spend one night together in quiet solidarity<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1516\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(<a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/cultural-rift-exposed-jerusalem-vs-israels-center\/\">Cultural Rift Exposed: Jerusalem vs. Israel\u2019s Center<\/a>)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1727\">Participation is open to families with children, and requires advance registration and a modest fee. Families bring their own tents, sleeping gear, flashlights and drinks \u2013 everything else is provided on site<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"1976\">As Mayor Moshe Lion puts it<br data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"1760\" \/>&#8220;\u2018Camping in the Garden\u2019 isn\u2019t just about tents and songs. It\u2019s about rediscovering the people around us \u2013 seeing that Jerusalem is full of good neighbors who want to connect. That\u2019s the community I\u2019m proud to lead<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"2234\"><strong data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"2077\">For more about this civic initiative, visit the official website of the Jerusalem Municipality<\/strong><br data-start=\"2077\" data-end=\"2080\" \/><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jerusalem.muni.il\/he\/experience\/events\/camping\/?display=gallery\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2080\" data-end=\"2234\">https:\/\/www.jerusalem.muni.il\/he\/experience\/events\/camping\/?display=gallery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a divided city, local parks become safe spaces for connection, family bonding, and shared summer nights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":87325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"9333","_seopress_titles_title":"Families Find Belonging in Jerusalem\u2019s Nighttime Park Camps","_seopress_titles_desc":"In a divided city, local parks become safe spaces for connection, family bonding, and shared summer nights","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10327,10335],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking","8":"category-leisure-in-jerusalem"},"acf":{"subtitle":"In a divided city, local parks become safe spaces for connection, family bonding, and shared summer nights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerusalem-online.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}