Israeli security forces detained Jerusalem’s top Islamic cleric as crowds gathered in the Old City following a shooting attack at the highly sensitive Temple Mount in which three Arab-Israelis killed two Israeli police officers, the cleric’s son said.
Clashes have broken out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces as Israeli demonstrators march through the Old City of Jerusalem to mark the 50th anniversary of city’s eastern half with its western half under Israeli sovereignty, which the protestors consider an occupation.
A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday and was shot at the scene.
An assailant stabbed two young men and a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday afternoon, wounding them, before being shot and killed by security forces, police said.
An op-ed piece that appeared in a Palestinian paper says the new UN secretary general “sinned” when he said last week that the temple in Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans was a Jewish Temple and that nobody can deny Judaism’s ties with Jerusalem.
A rare, well-preserved coin struck in 56-57 CE, bearing the image of Roman Emperor Nero, was found by archaeologists from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during a recent excavation on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, just outside the Old City, it was announced Wednesday.
Following a relative lull in violence outside of the Old City’s Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem, an Israeli teenager was stabbed in the back Monday night near the flashpoint area, in what police are deeming a criminal matter, not terrorism.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Tourism Ministry on Tuesday defended its official visitors’ map of Jerusalem’s Old City, which omits numerous historic Arab and Christian landmarks, while featuring dozens of Jewish sites. The map in question, which has the ministry’s logo
