British Woman Killed In Tram Attack
A British woman has been stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem. She has been named as student Hannah Bladon by Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev. Ms Bladon was stabbed several times in...
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Jews Hold Mass Passover Blessing At Western Wall
Tens of thousands of Jews congregated at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Thursday for a mass priestly blessing on Passover, a tradition of recent decades echoing a pilgrimage from antiquity. With...
Christians Hope For An ‘open Jerusalem’ For Easter
Christians in Jerusalem said Thursday that they are hoping for an "open Jerusalem" ahead of Passover and Easter celebrations in the city. Palestinian Christians from the West Bank and Gaza receive...
Anti-Occupation Peace Demo In Jerusalem
Several hundred mostly Jewish protesters marched in Jerusalem late Saturday to denounce nearly 50 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, police said. The demonstration's...
Israel Approves First New West Bank Settlement In 20 Years
Israel has approved the building of the first new settlement on the occupied West Bank in more than two decades. A statement after a meeting of the country's security cabinet said the construction...
Israeli Officer Beats Palestinian In Jerusalem
Jerusalem - An Israeli policeman was caught on video on Thursday physically assaulting a Palestinian in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Wadi el-Joz. The video shows a plainclothes police...
Jerusalem Marathon Brings Arabs and Jews Together
The Jerusalem Marathon winds its way through one of the most historic -- and contentious -- cities on earth. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism all have holy sites within its hallowed walls. Enmity...
Israel Closes Palestinian Map Bureau, Arrests Head
Israeli police on Tuesday closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services....
Israeli Lawmakers Give Initial Approval To Bills Quieting Mosques
Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday to two controversial measures that would limit calls to prayers from mosques, including one prohibiting the use of loudspeakers at all hours,...
Arab League To Resist Embassies’ Move To Jerusalem
Arab League foreign ministers adopted a resolution Tuesday against any attempt to move diplomatic missions to Jerusalem, following Donald Trump's presidential campaign pledge to move the American...
Police Officer Hospitalized After Multiple Shots By Robbers
A police officer, stationed at Upper Jerusalem in the Tema Metropolis, is in critical condition at the Tema General Hospital, after sustaining four gunshot wounds from suspected robbers on Friday...
Israeli Photographer David Rubinger Dead At 92
Israeli photojournalist David Rubinger, whose picture of Israeli paratroopers gazing at the Western Wall after capturing east Jerusalem was perhaps the defining image of the 1967 Six-Day War, has...
Israel Begins Evacuation of Illegal Amona Outpost
Hundreds of Israeli border police have entered a hardline Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank Wednesday to evict its residents after a court ruled the homes were built on private Palestinian...
Israel Authorises 3,000 More Settler Homes In West Bank
Latest: Ellembelle youth to demonstrate against new Ghana Gas CEO Israel has announced the construction of 3,000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the fourth such announcement in the less...
US Embassy Relocation To Jerusalem ‘a War Crime’
From the windows of the grey, cube-shaped building that houses the US embassy in Tel Aviv, staff enjoy an undisturbed view out over the Mediterranean and a beach adorned in the summer with sunbeds...
Israel Freezes Ties With Unesco For ‘denying Jewish Holy Sites’
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision...