Shlomi Shabat Honored by Beverly Hills City Council

Shlomi Shabat, the legendary Israeli singer known as the "godfather of Israeli music," met with Mayor Lili Bosse and the Beverly Hills City Council on April 11 to accept a proclamation honoring his contributions to the Israeli American and Jewish community.

After 25 years serving the largest conservative Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, Sinai Temple's Senior Rabbi David Wolpe announced that he will step down on June 30, 2023.

The Beverly Hills Courier has installed an Advisory Board comprised of six prominent members of our local community.

The discussion turned to the final two topics: Mayor Lili Bosse's request for an update on the creation of a public health department for the City of Beverly Hills and the recording and providing of hybrid broadcast-online capabilities for Council liaison and ad hoc meetings,

In a marathon seven-hour meeting on April 12, the Beverly Hills City Council took up multiple hot-button topics, including the city's eviction and rent increase moratoria and the historic status of a mansion on North Roxbury Drive.

Beverly Hills City Council candidates Commissioner Sharona Nazarian and Councilmember Robert Wunderlich have received the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP).

The Concours d'Elegance returns this year on June 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in a new format that includes elements from the Tour and Concours, with select cars positioned on Rodeo Drive for the public to view in addition to a VIP/sponsor driving

The Beverly Hills City Council approved nearly half a million dollars to establish the Real Time Watch Center, a new hub to coordinate the city's many surveillance tools.

The BA.2 subvariant is now believed to be the dominant COVID-19 strain circulating in Los Angeles County, which has seen an uptick in daily infection numbers, though hospitalization figures remain low and the death rate keeps declining, the Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said on

Cedars-Sinai announced a $10 million gift to establish the Bernard and Maxine Platzer Lynn Family Memory and Healthy Aging Program in the Department of Neurology on March 25.