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A bid by a Jewish women’s group to challenge tradition at Jerusalem’s Western Wall with a blessing usually conducted by men was curtailed Sunday after a decision by Israel’s attorney general.

The UN cultural body on Monday sought to calm anger over a resolution on a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site which saw Israel accuse it of seeking to “rewrite history”.

Israel’s Supreme Court denied on Monday a request by firebrand Islamic cleric Raed Salah to appeal his conviction for inciting violence, but cut his prison sentence by two months to nine. Salah leads the radical northern wing of the Islamic

Time reports:  (AMMAN, Jordan) — Jordan’s prime minister on Monday said his government has decided to call off a plan to install surveillance cameras at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, derailing a U.S.-brokered pact to ease tensions at the volatile

Ynetnews reports: Palestinian incitement related to the al-Aqsa mosque has significantly increased in the weeks leading up to Passover, which begins on April 22, in an attempt to raise tensions and cause disturbances and acts of terror. Every year, there is

TEL AVIV – Eight hundred and fifty Christian Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will celebrate Easter in Bethlehem and eastern Jerusalem after Israeli authorities agreed to grant them permits, a Palestinian Authority official said on Saturday. Muhammad al-Maqadma, a public information officer for

The Jerusalem Post reports: Surveillance cameras will be installed at the Temple Mount in the coming days, Jordanian Minister of State for Information Mohamed al-Mumani announced over the weekend. He said that the cameras were not intended to help Israel

TEL AVIV – Israel’s Science, Technology, and Space Minister Ofir Akunis on Saturday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of being the worst inciter against Israel over the past six months of violence, the Times of Israel reported. “The [Palestinian] Authority has

JAFFA, Israel – A Turkish foundation has launched a public photo exhibition on the Istanbul Metro in a bid to raise awareness of “Jerusalem and the plight of its Palestinian residents.” The exhibition, entitled “Dear Passenger, Please Stand Up and Look

TEL AVIV – More than three months after Jordan and Israel agreed to install cameras on the Temple Mount, the two sides are still stuck at an impasse amid disputes, Haaretz reported. The security measure was aimed at de-escalating tensions on

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority slammed Israel’s decision to expand the prayer section of the Western Wall to accommodate egalitarian services, with the claim that the “Jews have no connection to it whatsoever.” The PA further claimed that the

JAFFA, Israel – Egyptian authorities have stepped up security measures ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, as opposition groups call for rebellion. Welayat Sinai, an Islamic State affiliate in the Egyptian-controlled Sinai peninsula,

TEL AVIV – Top Palestinian security officers and a number of Fatah leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas, have been at odds recently over the latter’s wish to step up the recent wave of Palestinian terror attacks, a senior Palestinian security official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in a stone-throwing clash near the Gaza border on Friday, a Palestinian medical official said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said dozens of Palestinians had been rioting in the area and some had tried

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian university got into the Christmas spirit by decorating a tree with photos of terrorists, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The Fatah student’s movement at Birzeit University near Ramallah erected a Christmas tree adorned with pictures

Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who tried to ram them with their cars during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Israeli army and police and Palestinian medical sources said. Soldiers shot and killed

Contents: Egyptian scholar: The original al-Aqsa mosque may not have been in Jerusalem; BBC reporter confronts China’s military in South China Sea

Israel could easily destroy Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, but emphatically does not want to, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. In remarks to Likud colleagues, Netanyahu said Israel could rid the Temple Mount of the mosque with little effort, but that

JERUSALEM – Palestinian claims of a so-called Jewish threat to the Al Aqsa Mosque continued to unravel on Monday, when the Jerusalem District Court here sentenced three Palestinians to prison time for a plot to kidnap and murder Jews on the

TEL AVIV — At a memorial honoring Palestinian terrorist Muhamm​ad Halabi, 19, who killed two men in Jerusalem on October 3, an official from the ruling Palestinian Fatah party said he “salutes the soul of [the] martyr who detonated the

Though Palestinian leadership has continued to make unproven allegations related to Muslims being mistreated at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound, where the Al Aqsa mosque stands, Palestinian leaders have continued to reject measures–such as the installation of cameras at holy sites–that could provide proof for their claims.

A move to improve surveillance capabilities on the Temple Mount compound that hosts the Al-Aqsa mosque is “a new trap,” the Palestinian foreign minister has claimed.

Contents: Violence in Jerusalem increases after Abbas’s UN speech; Abbas’s UN speech raises concerns about a Palestinian ‘third intifada’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told citizens in his country this week that Muslims need to assert dominance over Jerusalem.

China builds more man-made islands in the South China Sea; Pentagon would welcome Japan air patrols in the South China Sea; Jordan returns its ambassador to Israel