| name | jerusalem-council-meetings |
| description | Use when the user wants to browse, list, or download protocols (meeting minutes) from Jerusalem Municipality council committee sittings (ישיבות ועדות מועצת העיר ירושלים). Navigates the official archive at https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/he/city/council/committeesmeetings/, opens a specific committee meeting detail page (CommitteeMeeting?term=<N>&id=<GUID>), pulls the section-by-section agenda outline, and downloads the full protocol PDF linked under פרוטוקול. The site is fronted by Akamai and blocks plain curl/fetch, so this skill drives a real browser (Playwright). Trigger phrases: "Jerusalem city council minutes", "committee meeting protocol", "פרוטוקול ועדה ירושלים", "download Jerusalem municipality sitting", "Jerusalem council meeting agenda", "ישיבת ועדה עיריית ירושלים", "get the protocol PDF for meeting X". |
Jerusalem Municipality — Council Committee Meetings
Access archived committee sittings (ישיבות ועדה) of Jerusalem City Council: list meetings, open a specific meeting's agenda, and download the protocol PDF.
URLs
- Archive / landing page — list of committees and their meetings:
https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/he/city/council/committeesmeetings/
- Single meeting detail page — query-string driven:
https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/he/city/council/CommitteesMeetings/CommitteeMeeting?term=<TERM>&id=<GUID>
term — council term number (e.g. 17).id — meeting GUID (e.g. 85cf59bc-f6d0-f011-bbd3-7ced8d49cdf0).
Access notes
- Akamai edge protection: plain
curl / fetch returns HTTP 403 ("Access Denied" from errors.edgesuite.net) even with a browser User-Agent. Use a real browser — Playwright (headless is usually fine; fall back to headed if Akamai challenges).
- Geo: not confirmed as strictly IL-geo-restricted — the 403 is bot-detection, not geo. Treat as tier 2 (remote headless browser) preferred, tier 3 (local Playwright) as fallback.
- Language: Hebrew (RTL). No login required for public protocols.
What to extract from a meeting detail page
From CommitteeMeeting?term=<N>&id=<GUID>:
| Field (HE) | English | Notes |
|---|
| שם הוועדה | Committee name | Page heading |
| תאריך הישיבה | Meeting date | Usually near title |
| מספר ישיבה | Meeting number | Within the term |
| סדר יום / נושאים | Agenda / topics | Section-by-section outline — the main body of the page |
| פרוטוקול | Protocol (minutes) | PDF link — the full meeting minutes. Primary artefact this skill downloads. |
| החלטות | Decisions | Sometimes a separate linked doc |
| הקלטה / וידאו | Audio / video recording | If present, link to media |
The agenda outline on the page is the cheap summary; the פרוטוקול PDF is the authoritative record.
Procedure
- Resolve target meeting. User supplies either:
- A full
CommitteeMeeting?term=…&id=… URL, or
- A description ("latest finance committee", "planning committee from March 2026") — in which case start at the archive landing page and pick the matching row.
- Open the detail page with Playwright. Default to headless Chromium. If the page renders "Access Denied" or a challenge, retry headed.
- Extract the agenda — grab the section headings and any bullet items under סדר יום / נושאים. Preserve Hebrew verbatim.
- Find the protocol link. Look for an anchor whose visible text contains
פרוטוקול (or an href ending in .pdf near that label). Resolve to an absolute URL.
- Download the PDF. Use the same browser context (cookies/session) —
page.request.get(pdf_url) in Playwright, or click-and-capture-download. Save to the user's requested path, defaulting to:
~/jerusalem-council-meetings/<term>-<short-id>-<YYYY-MM-DD>.pdf
- Report back — committee name, date, meeting number, agenda outline, and the saved PDF path.
Playwright sketch
from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from pathlib import Path
URL = "https://www.jerusalem.muni.il/he/city/council/CommitteesMeetings/CommitteeMeeting?term=17&id=85cf59bc-f6d0-f011-bbd3-7ced8d49cdf0"
with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
ctx = browser.new_context(locale="he-IL")
page = ctx.new_page()
page.goto(URL, wait_until="domcontentloaded")
agenda = page.locator("main").inner_text()
pdf_link = page.locator("a:has-text('פרוטוקול')").first
pdf_url = pdf_link.get_attribute("href")
if pdf_url and pdf_url.startswith("/"):
pdf_url = "https://www.jerusalem.muni.il" + pdf_url
resp = ctx.request.get(pdf_url)
out = Path.home() / "jerusalem-council-meetings" / "17-85cf59bc.pdf"
out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
out.write_bytes(resp.body())
browser.close()
Selectors above are best-effort from the described structure — verify on first run and adjust if the markup differs (especially the פרוטוקול anchor and any cookie/consent banner that may intercept clicks).
Output format
Committee: <HE name> (<English gloss if obvious>)
Date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
Term: <N> Meeting #: <M>
Agenda:
1. <section heading>
- <bullet>
- <bullet>
2. ...
Protocol PDF saved to: <absolute path> (<size>, <n> pages)
Out of scope
- Solving Akamai CAPTCHA / challenges (if one appears, surface it to the user in a headed browser).
- Parsing the PDF contents — this skill only fetches the file. Combine with a separate PDF-reading step for content extraction.
- Non-committee council outputs (full council votes, budget documents) — those live on other sections of the site.
