TEL AVIV – In a first, a multi-faith gathering of religious leaders including Chief Rabbis, archbishops, patriarchs, imams, and sheikhs joined together in prayer in Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon, in a united call to God to ease the suffering experienced around the world by the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of pilgrims filed into Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus’s resurrection, for Easter celebrations on Sunday.
Police forcibly removed a group of Coptic priests from the entrance to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre after they attempted to block antiquities workers from carrying out safety repairs in the Christian holy site.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian terrorist who stabbed an Israeli to death in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday had entered Israel legally using a termporary permit that allowed him to look for employment, the Shin Bet security service said.
TEL AVIV – A sensational new archaeological find in Jerusalem’s Old City has unearthed massive portions of the Western Wall and an ancient Roman theater unseen for 1,700 years, the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.
A lawmaker from the Likud party held office hours Monday outside an entrance to the Temple Mount in protest of an ongoing ban against MKs visiting the holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, imposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
TEL AVIV – Following the Temple Mount terror attack, a longstanding ban on members of Knesset visiting the holy site is likely to be extended, an MK said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – One of the three gunmen who carried out a deadly terror attack Friday morning at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem posted on Facebook shortly before the shooting, saying “Our smile tomorrow will be more beautiful, Allah willing.”
TEL AVIV – Germany’s Ambassador to UNESCO drew fire from a Jewish human rights organization after observing a minute’s silence for “Palestinian victims” at the cultural agency’s annual meeting in Krakow, Poland last week.
Israeli officials angrily rejected a resolution by a UN body condemning its activity in East Jerusalem and the Old City, with the Foreign Ministry saying the move was irrelevant.
TEL AVIV – Jewish Home head Naftali Bennett and Likud minister Ze’ev Elkin finally agreed Sunday night to collaborate on a bill that would require a two-thirds Knesset majority to give up any part of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr., on Saturday slammed the BBC for its headline on the Jerusalem terror attack that only mentioned the deaths of three Palestinians and failed to mention that they were terrorists who murdered a border policewoman.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Palestinian Authority for its failure to condemn Friday’s terror attack in The Old City of Jerusalem, and urged the international community to put pressure on the Palestinians to end the practice of paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is due to visit the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, this week.
Stores were closed, thousands of police were deployed and some residents were to be temporarily evicted from their homes, amid unprecedented security arrangements for US President Donald Trump’s walk through the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon.
TEL AVIV — The White House on Monday said that comments from a U.S. official claiming that the Western Wall is part of the West Bank were “unauthorized” and do not represent President Donald Trump’s stance.
Researchers recently uncovered a stone burial slab which many believe Jesus Christ’s body may have been laid on following his death.
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall throughout the day Wednesday in what appeared to be defiant display of rejection against UNESCO’s Tuesday adoption of a resolution which Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem.
Three people were lightly injured in two rock-throwing attacks in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, police said.
Israel Police on Sunday arrested the coach of the eastern Jerusalem-based Hilal Al-Quds soccer team, which last week honored terrorist Mesbah Abu Sabih, who murdered two Israelis in a terrorist attack at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in Jerusalem.
Israeli police are to boost their presence at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound for a Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of ancient temples there, a spokesman said.
Following the success of the Mabet 2000 security camera system in the Old City of Jerusalem – which takes live feeds from cameras all over the Old City and feeds them into a central video bank – the Jerusalem Police have decided to widen the scope of the program over the rest of the city of Jerusalem.
The Daily Telegraph reports: Dawn marks the beginning of a perilous hour in the Old City of Jerusalem. After sunrise, thousands of Muslims and Jews gather to perform their respective devotions at the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall.
Police detained seven Jewish men suspected of planning to sacrifice goats in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday in honor of the Passover holiday, which begins at sundown.
TEL AVIV – After UNESCO’s executive board voted in favor of a resolution that entirely ignored any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and Western Wall area, Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold wrote a letter “registering Israel’s protest in the strongest terms.”
Archaeologists deciphered a seal impression bearing the name of the 8th century BCE biblical King Hezekiah recently found during excavations next to the Old City of Jerusalem, the Hebrew University announced Wednesday. The bulla, a stamp seal impression, was one
