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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed a terrorist immediately upon his release from a 20-year sentence in Israel prison for murder, in an hour-long meeting that focused on Palestinian prisoners.

TEL AVIV – Arab nations will push for recognition of “Palestine” with eastern Jerusalem as its capital following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last month.

With Israel halfway through its fifth consecutive winter of depleted rainfall, thousands of Jews assembled Thursday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem to pray together for rain.

It is no exaggeration to say that for Jews, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is an event of almost Biblical significance. And we are witnesses to it.

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a 1,500-year-old portion of mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian and a senior Orthodox priest.

Israel ministers overnight Tuesday decided that the metal detectors set up outside the Temple Mount in Jerusalem — in the wake of a terror attack at the holy site in which two Israeli police officers were killed — would be removed, and replaced with security measures based on “advanced technologies.”

TEL AVIV — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday passed a highly biased resolution denouncing Israel regarding the Old City and its ancient walls in Jerusalem.

NEW YORK, NY — Breitbart Jerusalem Editor-in-Chief Aaron Klein lambasted the unadulterated, anti-Israel bias of the “fake news media” on Sunday, during the Israel Day Concert in Central Park saying, “the time has come for Israel to troll the world with the truth…because the fake news media won’t do that.”

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced a five-year Jerusalem development plan during a special cabinet meeting held in the Western Wall tunnels in honor of the 50th anniversary since the unification of the capital since the Six Day War.

TEL AVIV – A senior aide to President Barack Obama made the wildly exaggerated claim in an interview on PBS that Israel was constructing “tens of thousands” of new settlements in the West Bank, an error that prompted the network’s ombudsman to demand a “clarifying or correcting” statement from the news program on Friday.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday for disavowing the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as a “flagrant violation of international law.”

TEL AVIV – Congressional Republicans are moving quickly to denounce the United Nations for its recent Security Council resolution deeming all Israeli settlements as “flagrant violation[s] of international law.

Following Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on his vision for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel was being treated “very, very unfairly” by the international community, and added that he and the outgoing secretary have “different views” on the conflict.

TEL AVIV – “Obama is history. We have Trump,” Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev said on Tuesday, adding that President Barack Obama never supported Israel.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned Tuesday that the country will provide “evidence” to President-elect Donald Trump that President Barack Obama was behind Friday’s anti-settlement resolution at the United Nations Security Council. Ambassador Ron Dermer told CNN

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday night reportedly attempted to reach out to President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress to block a potential last-minute bid by the Obama administration to have the UN Security Council approve parameters for a Palestinian state.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that President Barack Obama may have more surprises in store for Israel following the U.S.’s “shameful” abstention at the United Nations. 

TEL AVIV – President-elect Donald Trump said that the UN vote demanding Israel end all settlements would make a peace agreement more difficult than ever.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed President Barack Obama for allowing the UN to “gang up” on Israel by passing a “disgraceful” UN resolution that labels the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City occupied territory.

Police said Saturday that they foiled a planned stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, arresting a 35-year-old Palestinian woman.

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump told a Republican rally in Jerusalem on Wednesday that he loves Judaism and will work to make “America and Israel safe again.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian terrorist who attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers in Jerusalem on Friday as “a martyr who watered the pure earth of Palestine with his blood.”

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers in east Jerusalem near the Old City on Monday before being shot by forces at the scene, police said.

Border Police shot and killed a Jordanian man as he attempted to stab a female officer at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, police said.

TEL AVIV – The Director of the Islamic Waqf, the body in charge of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, spread outright lies on Palestinian news Saturday, saying that Israel is staging “break-ins” in the Al Aqsa Mosque.

Two Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount were removed from the premises of the holy site Sunday after violating the rules of entry, police said. Jews are permitted to visit the Temple Mount, but prohibited from praying on the contested holy site.

The first Friday prayers of the month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan passed quietly in the Old City of Jerusalem, two days after a Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv killed four Israelis.

TEL AVIV – An Israeli civilian was moderately to severely wounded in a stabbing attack on Monday night at the Lion’s Gate, one of seven ancient entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City. A video of the attack scene can be viewed below:

TEL AVIV – Two days after the Jerusalem terror attack in which a bus exploded, police said on Wednesday that they are being hyper-vigilant against any threats when tens of thousands of Jews and Christians come to the capital over the Passover festival.

TEL AVIV – U.S. citizens visiting Israel should maintain a heightened sense of alert, the U.S. diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem warned in a statement “During the last few months, and in particular over the past several days,

Israel’s i24 News reports: Two Israelis were injured in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus gate by the Old City on Friday. The injured were reportedly border police and were lightly wounded by stab wounds to the upper body. A Palestinian

JERUSALEM – Two Palestinian terrorists wounded at least three people in a stabbing attack near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday.