Tali Friedman is the first woman elected to the Mahane Yehuda market traders' committee. She is now running for the city council as number 4 on Moshe Leon's list.

"The market for me is everything - home, friends, family, it is a magnificent human mosaic," she says. "Jerusalem is one and only. It is a privilege for me to serve its residents," Friedman says of her home city, which she calls "the beating heart of Jerusalem"