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China’s U.N. ambassador has been advocating for the international community to support a four-point proposal released by President Xi Jinping to guide Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to the creation of a Palestinian state.

JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday blamed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for helping to fuel anti-Israel incitement regarding false threats to the Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount is “a holy place for Muslims only, and no one but the Muslims have any religious or historical right there,” Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview.

The Knesset on Wednesday rejected a bill proposed by an opposition lawmaker aimed at enshrining in law plans to build a permanent, pluralistic prayer section at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV — Reports here on Sunday claimed that pop star Britney Spears cancelled dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and child cancer patients after being mobbed by fans at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.

TEL AVIV – Pop princess Britney Spears was mobbed by over-enthusiastic crowds while visiting the the Western Wall in Jerusalem during her first visit to the country Sunday.

A delegation from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Thursday held emergency talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly telling him of a “crisis of faith” across the US Jewish community as a result of his freezing of an agreement on pluralistic prayer at the Western Wall.

The cabinet on Sunday suspended a government-approved plan to establish a pluralistic prayer pavilion at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, following calls by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition allies to scrap the deal.

A new report by a United Nations expert, and submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council, blames Israel in part for Palestinian men beating their wives — offering more fuel to those in the Trump administration seeking to leave the

TEL AVIV – The Western Wall should always remain under Muslim control and we will not give a single millimeter to the Israelis, the Palestinian Authority’s supreme Sharia judge and senior adviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday, contradicting earlier remarks made by a PA official who acknowledged the site to be one of Judaism’s holiest and as such should remain in Jewish hands.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called her visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday “life-changing.” “My heart is full, and my life will change after the visit,” she wrote in the holy site’s visitors book.

TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has put himself on the receiving end of anger on Palestinian streets after telling Israel’s Channel 2 that he Western Wall “will remain under Israeli sovereignty. There’s no argument that this is a holy site for Jews.”

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is due to visit the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, this week.

TEL AVIV – A senior Palestinian official said Saturday that the Western Wall is a Jewish holy site and must remain under Jewish sovereignty under any future peace agreement but the Temple Mount should not.

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.

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.

The massive ancient reservoirs that remain viewable today in Jerusalem’s Old City had serviced Jews making pilgrimages to the Second Temple some 2,000 years ago, according to a soon-to-be-published research paper.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Isaac Herzog went head-to-head in the Knesset on Wednesday over Jerusalem, with the premier saying Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel’s capital in any border was the root of the conflict, and pledging that the city, including the Temple Mount and Western Wall, will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.

JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump on Monday visited the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem as part of his 24-hour tour here in Israel.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz sang the praises of President Donald Trump for his trip to Israel. Dershowitz pointed to Trump’s gestures on the Iran nuclear deal and his visit to the

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israeli sovereignty over the Jerusalem’s holy sites is not up for negotiation and said the city will always be Israel’s capital Sunday, hours before US President Donald Trump was set to touch down in the country.

Shortly after landing at Ben-Gurion Airport on Monday and meeting with the prime minister, president and numerous dignitaries, US President Donald Trump will fly via helicopter to Jerusalem’s First Station for a series of meetings and site-seeing in the capital.

On Monday, President Donald Trump will arrive here in Israel for a jam-packed 24-hour visit that will include meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas as well as visits to Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and the ancient fortification of Masada.

Over 25 Jewish organizations and Republican and Democrat lawmakers convened at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center on Wednesday to mark and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day and to reaffirm that Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital.

President Donald Trump leaves for his first foreign trip of his presidency Friday, highlighting three of the world’s biggest religions with visits to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican City.

Wading into an ongoing diplomatic spat between Israel and the US over whether the Western Wall is in Israel, White House spokesman Sean Spicer brought his own brand of clarity to the situation, affirming that the holy site is “clearly in Jerusalem.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed new US Ambassador David Friedman to the Jewish state on Tuesday at a meeting in Jerusalem.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) firmly urged the Trump Administration not to waffle in acknowledging the Western Wall as part of Israel in a statement issued on Tuesday.

National Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster declined to answer whether President Donald Trump considered the Western Wall in Jerusalem part of Israel. “That sounds like a policy decision,” he said, laughing.

President Donald Trump promised to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, but a recent diplomatic spat showed why it has been so hard for him to do so.

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.

TEL AVIV — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas outright lied to Donald Trump’s face at a joint appearance at the White House earlier this week in which the two addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, charged Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein during his regular segment on the national John Batchelor Show.

While Israelis here are celebrating the country’s Independence Day today, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution disavowing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and ignoring Jewish ties to the religion’s holiest sites.

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova has rebuffed attempts by the UN cultural body to deny a historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian newspaper was attacked on the Palestinian Authority’s official television network for using the “poisonous term” the “Wailing Wall” in reference to Judaism’s holiest site, instead of the Arabic “al-Buraq Wall.”

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.