Thousands of Jews attended prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to observe the start of the Tisha B'av fasting day on Monday night, days after violence shook the city. Prayer leaders read aloud...
They come every day, spreading out prayer mats in a Jerusalem street under the watchful eyes of Israeli police and refusing to enter one of the world's most sensitive holy sites. Nearly two weeks...
The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem reopened Sunday after being closed following a deadly attack, but Muslims were refusing to enter over new Israeli security measures, including metal detectors...
The United Nations declared the Old City of Hebron a heritage site on Friday, sparking Israeli fury and Palestinian jubiliation. Hebron claims to be one of the world's oldest cities, dating from the...
Israel's shelving of a deal to allow mixed-gender prayers at the Western Wall echoed far beyond religion Monday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of abandoning reform efforts for...
Israel's government on Sunday cancelled a landmark deal to create a space for women and men to pray together at the Western Wall, angering activists who have fought for the change for years. Women...
The government is set to airlift Christian pilgrims from Ghana to Israel and other parts of the Christian world on an annual basis, beginning with about 100 persons. Minister of Chieftaincy and...
One of Judaism's holiest sites, the Western Wall in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, must remain under "Jewish sovereignty", a senior member of the Palestinian president's Fatah party said on...
He lives only a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem but for Palestinian Abu Bashir the city and its sacred sites might as well be a world away. "The whole world goes to Jerusalem but we who live a few...
Fifty years after the 1967 Six-Day War, a photograph of three awestruck Israeli paratroopers at the freshly captured Western Wall remains a potent symbol of Israel's lightning conquest of east...
The Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, or Six-Day War, radically changed the map of the Middle East. Between June 5 and 10, Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria and occupied Egypt's Sinai Peninsula,...
Israel's government on Sunday approved plans to install a cable car to Jerusalem's Old City, a project likely to anger Palestinians and much of the international community. The plan would see a...
Thousands of Israelis marched through east Jerusalem´s Old City on Wednesday to commemorate 50 years since the Jewish state seized control of it in the Six-Day War. More than 60,000 people were...
Israeli right-wingers celebrated US President Donald Trump's visit after he made no mention of the two-state solution, but a lack of specifics on how he would resolve the conflict with the...
Donald Trump made the short trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem Tuesday to meet Mahmud Abbas, who was hoping to convince the unpredictable US president to remain committed to an independent Palestinian...
Donald Trump made the short trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem Tuesday to meet Mahmud Abbas, who hopes to convince the unpredictable U. S. president to remain committed to an independent Palestinian...
Donald Trump makes the short trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem Tuesday to meet Mahmud Abbas, who hopes to convince the unpredictable US president to remain committed to an independent Palestinian...
Trump tells Israel Iran will never have nuclear weapons Mr Trump (C) met both Mr Netanyahu (R) and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (L) (AFP) US President Donald Trump has told Israel's Prime...
Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall in the disputed city of Jerusalem, placing his hand on one of the most sacred sites in Judaism. The Western Wall...
Donald Trump was on Monday to become the first serving US president to visit the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, located in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. The city is revered by...
