By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The terrorist fled and the Israel Defense Forces launched a manhunt.
Some of the terrorists were shot.
The two have previously thrown stones and explosive devices at Israeli security personnel and civilians.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
It's not clear why the artifact should have been given to the Palestinian Authority which has no cultural or historical connection to the object or the region.
One Efrat home was hit by a dozen bullets.
The aqueduct remained the main source of water for Jerusalem until 1917.
Tourists and workers from abroad are being verbally abused, spat at and accused of “bringing Corona to Palestine.”
The PA has ordered the closure of all educational institutions, and banned all public events planned in these areas, including prayers in mosques and churches.
Around 177,000 Christians are citizens of Israel, comprising around 2% of the population.
The IDF was initially hesitant of issuing further permits due to the possible security threat. The Hamas terror organization, which rules the Strip, is notorious for exploiting Israel’s humanitarian permits for terrorism.
Recently, Fatah activists rioted in the village of Jifna, and then forced Christian-Arabs to pay a Jizyah tax for their "protection".
Tlaib's complaint: "The delegation would have seen first-hand. Yeah, why walls are destructive, not productive. They could've asked the people in Bethlehem how walls cut people off, away from economic opportunities."
Palestinian Authority officers beat, dispersed and arrested worshippers who adhered to the Tahrir’s ruling and celebrated on the wrong day.
Palestinian Authority adding the Alphabet to their license plates
The family claims it was only a traffic accident, and not a terror attack against the 4 IDF soldiers.
By JNi.Media
The church has been accused numerous times over the past two decades of selling its leasing rights over land in Jerusalem to Israeli Jewish investors
By BBC Watch
‘Alternativity’ is an appalling piece of anti-Israel propaganda, all the more so because it was packaged as a Nativity Play at Christmas performed by children. (Part 1)
By BBC Watch
‘Alternativity’ is an appalling piece of anti-Israel propaganda, all the more so because it was packaged as a Nativity Play at Christmas performed by children. (Part 2)
The blood of a terrorist who murdered an Israeli "will not be in vain" as "the ground [will] not be in vain."
By JNi.Media
She supports BDS, although remains very careful as to the language she uses.
By JNi.Media
Eroding the Jewish heritage of Solomon's pools much like the Arabs have neglected and permitted the erosion of the pools and their distribution system since the pools were handed over to them by the Oslo Accords, is a slap in the face of the Jewish nation.
Conan, an Irish Catholic, said he was looking forward to visiting the ancient sites in Israel, and said he would travel to Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
By JNi.Media
The Palestinian Authority's accumulated unpaid bills have risen to over 2.2 billion shekels.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas hid from President Trump that his government and Fatah had just honored 44 terrorists involved in the murders of 440 people.
Jokes about Israeli drivers are already starting to make the rounds.
PA Arabs are rioting and attacking people a little more than usual.
An Arab terrorist was seriously injured by IDF gunfire after he threw Molotov cocktails at the security forces.
By JNi.Media
Yacoub Shahin, a native of Bethlehem, was the choice of fans from across the Middle East, beating Israeli Arab Amir Dandan and Yemeni Ammar Mohammed in the final round.
No one was injured in the attack.
The IDF hopes to initially enlist 15-20 Chareidim for the unit.
The man attacked the policeman hoping to be killed in the process.
An explosive device was thrown into the compound.
Naomi came back to Bethlehem today after 10 years, marking the final time for about three millennia that a Jew will enter the city without need of an armed escort.
Large Arab security forces are deployed in Bethlehem. Radicals have posted social media threats of terror against Arabs.
Rewriting history, UNESCO decided that the unquestionably Jewish sites are Muslim.
By JNi.Media
Three were arrested for throwing the bomb that injured the soldier at teh "Panorama" checkpoint.
There is one problem with the Palestinian Authority version: The church was under renovations and was without electricity.
Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade said the killing of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin was a "heroic operation."
A firebomb was thrown at the parking lot next to Rachel's Tomb on Tuesday evening.
Arabs in Bethlehem burned the St. Charbel (Sharbel) church on Saturday night.
By JNi.Media
Anonymous PA source actually blamed Israel: “We think there are sides like Israel who might want to plant disturbances and benefit from them."
Israel will do its "utmost so that Jews will be able to go everywhere safely, especially to the Tomb of the Patriarchs," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Sunday. Tens of thousands of Jews visit the site, known, in Hebrew as Ma'arat HaMachpelah, for Slichot prayers between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. It is […]
The Israeli police shot him before he threw his bomb at them.
The Ma'an News Agency, based in Bethlehem, wrote in Arabic that today's attack was a "car accident." In English, it wrote: "Suspected car attack."
Many Christians have run away from the Palestinian Authority to pre-67 Israel, where they don't face Muslim and PA persecution.
Terrorists are on the warpath as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan gets underway.
Israel allowed 190 Arabs from Gaza to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque on Friday.
The "symbolic fee" would supposedly force an improvement in tourist services, but would the pope and Jimmy Carter fork up the shekels?
IDF troops returned fire at a 20-year old terrorist who threw a firebomb at the soldiers, killing the terrorist.
By David Bedein
UNRWA schools now teach that Rachel's tomb is a shrine to a Muslim.
The great work by israeldailypicture.com has made this rare collection of Rachel's Tomb photos available to the general public. Tonight is the Yartzheit of Rachel Imeinu, the Matriarch Rachel.
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration has sharply condemned the Israeli government's decision Sunday to designate a lot in Gush Etzion as state land.
No word yet if Abbas will blame Israel for not stopping the rockets launched by his own government's partners.
Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?
By Shalom Bear
Imagine the Pope's horror, knowing this wall is all that stands between the Jews and Palestinian suicide bombers! No wonder he's praying.
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
By JTA
Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Israel Defense Forces to bar a Palestinian runner from Gaza from participating in a marathon in Bethlehem but nevertheless recommended that he be allowed to participate in the race. Olympian Nader Masri, 34, had asked Israel’s military for permission to travel to the second Bethlehem marathon that […]
Arabs threw a bomb into the area of Rachel's Tomb on Thursday night.
U.S. government employees are forbidden from traveling anywhere on personal business in Judea and Samaria except for Bethlehem and Jericho, according to the government’s latest travel advisory. In language softer than previous warnings that scared the dickens out of anyone even thinking of visiting Israel, the advisory pointed out, “Over three million foreign citizens, including […]
The unrepentant murderer of two Israeli college students was praised, rewarded, employed and promoted.
No confirmation of the alleged assault was reported by any news outlet other than Ma'an.
At just after 11:00 pm on Monday evening, a pipe-bomb was again thrown into the Rachel's Tomb compound at the edge of Bethlehem, near Jerusalem. This pipe-bomb, thrown over the security wall, landed in the upper parking lot, exploded, and wounded a 25 year old man. The injured man was treated and then evacuated by […]
Palestinian Authority Arabs attacks Israeli soldiers and civilians Monday night with two Molotov cocktail attacks on an IDF post neat Bethlehem and Rachel’s Tomb (Kever Rachel), injuring one person. Attacking Jews has been increasing popular among Arabs in Judea the past several weeks and follows a bit of incitement by U.S. Secretary of State John […]
The Islamic Jihad terrorist moment has infiltrated into the heart of Israel and was involved in last month’s Bat Yam bus bombing near Tel Aviv.
The Palestinian Authority for years has been trying to destroy evidence of the existence of the Holy Temples, and new fears have arisen that they may try to the same in a Gush Etzion location of artifacts from the Hashmonean Dynasty, when the Miracle of Hanukkah occurred. Artifacts and remnants of a fortress dating back […]
An IDF pilot made an emergency landing in Bethlehem when he noticed a malfunction in his Blackhawk helicopter Wednesday, according to Israel Defense. Air Force technicians arrived to report the chopper under the protection of army soldiers. The helicopter was on a training mission at the time, and the pilot returned the aircraft to its […]
Jews visit Rachel’s Tomb Tuesday to pray that she cries for them. Today, the anniversary of her death, the Palestinian Authority has failed to turn it into a Muslim holy site. Chalk up one for the truth.
Roger ‘Pink Floyd’ Waters learns not to start up with Israelis, especially a woman. And especially supermodel Bar Rafaeli. She exposed his hypocrisy of boycotting Israel but using her photo for his concerts.
A Russian company is set to invest $30 million in a building complex in Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority Minister of Economy Jawad al-Naji said Tuesday, according to Ma'an. The complex will include a music school, gym, administrative offices, gardens and commercial spaces. It will be built alongside the Russian Center for Science and Culture, on Vladmir […]
Russia is strengthening its presence in the Palestinian Authority with a $30 million investment in an office-commercial center in Bethlehem that will include a gymnasium and music school. The Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported that the complex will be built next to the Russian Center for Science and Culture.
Israel has made another concession, without even being asked. The PA anthem was sung in Bethlehem for the Barcelona soccer team during its Peres-sponsored visit, but HaTikvah was ditched in Tel Aviv.
How far the PA will go to present the lie as the truth and the truth as a lie? Its claim that Jesus was a Palestinian is old hat. But now the “resurrection” also refers to “the Palestinian state.”
A taxi driver tried to set fire into his car early Wednesday after a police officer gave him a traffic ticket because he parked in an off-limits area between Bethlehem and Beit Jala. ”I wanted to set fire to my taxi and keep myself inside it to explode because I am exploding from the new […]
Today he might be terrorist, a peace-loving Arab. Or maybe he is a dead suicide bomber. In 1990, he was 8 years old when he hurled rocks at the bus I was guarding.
Indictments were brought against the terrorists in the military court in Judea for severe security violations.
By JTA
A gag order has been released on the arrest and indictment of 30 Palestinian Authority terrorists from the Bethlehem area, where President Barack Obama visited last week. The defendants, believed to be part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), were charged with carrying out machine gun and firebomb attacks on Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Migdal […]
PA Arabs already have put banana peels on a spiked carpet for Obama’s visit to Bethlehem. Vandals sprayed swastikas on an Obama banner. Then a car ran over it and others set the banner on fire.
President Barack Obama may scratch Ramallah from his itinerary and meet Palestinian Authority only in Bethlehem when he visits the Church of Nativity, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency reported. The news agency, which has close ties with the Palestinian Authority, quoted “anonymous” PA sources. A sign of how President Obama would be received by the […]
The year’s biggest photo op gets underway next week. Obama will smile in Jerusalem and Ramallah and pray in a church that he can “fool all the people all of the time.”
Since we believe Palestinian Arab casualties that result from Palestinian Arab mis-handling or misfiring of Palestinian Arab explosives, guns, rockets, mortars and the like almost never get reported in the mainstream news media, we will be watching to see how much coverage this incident below gets. It appears at this moment on a Bethlehem-based (and somewhat Hamas-hostile) Palestinian news site.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Brian Schrauger to discuss the current situation in Bethlehem, especially for Arab Christians
In 1945, Yaffa Tevuah was a 22-year old Lehi fighter imprisoned by the British in the women's prison in Bethlehem. Seeking courage when facing her British interrogators, she drew strength from Rachel Imeinu and comfort from her sense of returning home.
The Palestinians have asked the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of UNESCO to recognize Battir, a village about 5 miles west of Bethlehem, as a World Heritage Site and add it to the 936 sites already maintained by UNESCO. The city's original name was Betar, the last fortress of Bar Kochba and the name of Jabotinsky's Zionist youth movement.
The battle is being waged on the internet and phone lines, in the lead-up to a Sacramento City Council meeting on the topic which will take place on August 14.
The announcement comes on the heels of UNESCO's decision last week to name the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as "Palestine's" first World Heritage Site.
The Palestinian Authority will attempt to register the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a world heritage site in the country of Palestine when the World Heritage Committee meets in Russia from June 24 to July 6.
Israel Antiquities Authority and the Ir David Foundation announced that a clay seal was discovered bearing the name of the city of Bethlehem, evidence that the city existed during the period of the First Temple in Jerusalem. The find coincides with the upcoming holiday of Shavuot, during which time Jews from around the world focus on the story of the biblical figure Ruth, set in the city of Bethlehem.
The Civil Administration arranged for the transport of Yehia, an Arab boy from Bethlehem, to be treated at a hospital in Boston where he underwent a kidney transplant that saved his life. The child was previously treated for kidney issues at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, where he received dialysis treatment. Eventually, Israeli doctors […]
The absence of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem from a list of sites to receive funding as part of Israel’s National Heritage program has raised the ire of MKs in support of Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria.
Yaakov Avinu spent the final seventeen years of his life in Mitzrayim. While there he lived in peace for the first time in many years and remained in that state for the rest of his life. Near the end of his days he called in his beloved son Yosef and made an impassioned request: “Please do not bury me in Mitzrayim.”