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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a U.S. Embassy event in Jerusalem on Tuesday, marking American Independence Day, whereby he praised U.S.-Israeli ties, reiterated Israel’s strike earlier in the day on Hamas leaders in Qatar, and said the action fulfilled his vow to pursue those responsible for the October 7 massacre.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered prayers of thanks Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, praising God for delivering Israel from a potential nuclear Iran.

President of Argentina Javier Milei concluded his second visit to Israel Thursday and reaffirmed his support for its legitimate right to defense.

“If Jerusalem falls, Athens, Paris, or Amsterdam are next,” warned firebrand Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders during a heated Dutch parliamentary clash following the collapse of his coalition government.

Ambassador Mike Huckabee stated he will place a handwritten prayer from President Donald Trump in Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Friday, calling the act a meaningful start to his diplomatic mission in Israel.

Christians around the globe celebrate Christmas this week, what they believe to be the miracle of the Incarnation—that God came into this world by being born as a baby, and living a human life on this earth, believing this to be the fulfillment of centuries of prophecy.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey repeated a pledge Saturday to conquer Jerusalem during a speech in Mardin, Turkey, raising eyebrows and signaling new tensions in the relationship with Israel.

Israeli Police said Monday that they suspected arson was the cause of a fire in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross, which threatened the Israel Museum and other important sites nearby.

Christian pilgrims continued to visit holy sites in Israel this weekend, despite the ongoing war against Hamas and the massive missile attack by Iran.

Christians celebrate Easter this Sunday, marking the anniversary of the cornerstone belief of their faith that is as shocking of a claim today as it was 2,000 years ago: Jesus Christ was bodily resurrected from the grave following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday.

Israel is a “very robust democracy” and does not need any kind of “foreign intervention in dealing with our own leaders,” according to Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum.

Hananya Ben Shimon, 23, an Israeli reservist fresh from military service in Gaza, shot and killed one of three Palestinian terrorists who had opened fire on civilians stuck in traffic on Thursday near Jerusalem, helping to stop the deadly attack.

Palestinian peace advocate Bassem Eid asserts that Israelis have historically offered peace while Palestinians have rejected these offers.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday evening, as both Jews and Muslims were participating in prayers, endangering the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rockets were intercepted and disabled by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, whose trails could be seen across the evening sky.

Terrorist gunmen killed three people and wounded eight more in Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, just minutes after a six-day truce between Israel and Hamas was extended to a seventh day, and just hours after an American hostage was freed.

“Red Alert,” damaged by shrapnel during the October 7 attack, is a painting that, like Israel, finds new life even in tragedy, even after death.

Three heavily armed terrorist gunmen who attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, wounding six security forces, were killed as Israeli police fended them off, police have confirmed.

The streets of Israel’s capital city were eerily quiet on Friday afternoon — not just because of the approaching Sabbath, but because of the war that has seen soldiers and reservists called to the Gaza and Lebanon borders.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) fled Israel when the rockets started falling — rockets paid for by Iran, thanks to the nuclear deal he supported.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered to exchange himself for the Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unsurprisingly devoted much of his U.N. General Assembly address to denouncing the “Israeli occupation of our territory” and demanding more international pressure against Israel to make concessions.

An excavation project uncovered steps in Jerusalem where the Bible says Jesus healed a man who had been blind from the day he was born.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at Sky News, stating that Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are part of the Jewish “ancestral homeland” to which Jews have been attached for 3,000 years and the notion of banning Jews from settling in those areas is the true “obstacle to peace,” after the British news outlet attempted to depict the territories as “occupied” lands.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller struggled to explain the Biden administration’s stance on Israel when questioned by reporters.

The Biden administration rebuked Israel on Sunday as a Jewish political leader visited the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, to emphasize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem’s holy places, which are open to all.

The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has denounced a sharp rise in anti-Christian incidents in the Holy Land, including “attacks on holy sites, schools and even funeral processions.”

Christians worldwide observe Good Friday today, the day when Jesus Christ died upon a cross on a hill named Golgotha outside a gate in the wall at Jerusalem in Israel, in what Christians believe was a willing sacrifice to bring peace with God to billions across the centuries.

Palestinians desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, during the holy month of Ramadan this week by stockpiling weapons they intended to use to attack Jews praying at the Western Wall on Passover.

The Times of Israel has denounced growing anti-Christian violence in the Holy Land, some of which has been blamed on “Jewish extremists.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will ask his Italian counterpart to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital, prompting immediate backing from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

(AFP) – Olive oil, fragrant rose and orange blossom: the special “chrism” or holy anointing oil for the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III has been blessed in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Protesters across Israel on Wednesday took part in a national “Day of Disruption” against the government’s proposal for judicial reform, with police deploying tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades in an attempt to disperse the crowds blocking major highways and disrupting train services.

Videos of Palestinian kindergarten-aged children dressed up as jihadi terrorists and killing Israelis are making the rounds on TikTok, with scenes also showing the children carrying the “dead bodies” of “martyrs”.

More than 100,000 protesters gathered in Jerusalem and other cities in Israel on Monday to demonstrate against a controversial plan to overhaul Israel’s left-leaning judiciary.

CNN, The New York Times and the BBC covered a deadly attack in Jerusalem on Friday by omitting any reference to terrorism or a terrorist.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in Ramallah on Tuesday he mourned the “innocent Palestinian civilians” killed over the past year in the West Bank. Of the Palestinians killed, the overwhelming majority were terrorists – most of them while they were carrying out attacks.