The Jerusalem municipality voted on Sunday to memorialize a teen murdered by an ultra-Orthodox extremist at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade, by either naming a street after her or commemorating her in a similar way in the center of the city.

The decision to commemorate the teen, Shira Banki, comes more than a decade after the 15-year-old was stabbed to death by Yishai Schlissel while marching in the 2015 LGBTQ parade. Schlissel had been released from prison just three weeks prior, having served an eight-year sentence for a stabbing attack at the same march 10 years earlier.

It was not immediately clear whether the commemoration would take the form of a street named after Banki, as some reports suggested, or whether a square in central Jerusalem would be named after her instead, as others attested.

According to the Ynet news site, Banki’s name would either be selected for a square close to the location of her murder or would be displayed in the city in some other form, although not on a street sign. Contradictory reports, including by the Haaretz daily and Channel 12, indicated that a street would be named after the slain teen, but that the exact street would only be determined at a later date.

The motion faced opposition from the advisory........

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