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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Abu-Shkadem was a figure known to Israel’s security forces, the police admitted.
“The new route provides a better understanding of the complex and important site known as the Western Wall tunnels."
The young man stepped out onto the roof-porch after hearing fireworks (and gunfire).
The lion statues in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City have been repainted with appropriate coronavirus masks and safety messages.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Muslims should “perform prayers in their homes during the month of Ramadan, to preserve their safety,” the Waqf council said.
For the past 15 years the stone is weighing heavily on his heart.
It’s time to LIV! It’s time to GIV! It’s time to NETIV!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It will be able to carry 3,000 passengers per hour in each direction, utilizing 73 carriages.
By Israel Hayom
Projects include an elevator that will lead from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall plaza that is accessible for the disabled; a renovation of the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, which was destroyed in 1948; and improved shade and outdoor facilities.
The Old City of Jerusalem during the Light Festival.
The Jerusalem Heritage House runs a hostel which serves as a home away from home for college students and lone soldiers. Joshua Hasten interviews Rabbi Ben Packer, Director of Jerusalem Heritage House, today on Israel Uncensored.
By JNi.Media
The patriarchy claimed that their CFO, one Nicholas Papadimas, was corrupt and took a bribe for the deal with the Jewish group.
By JNi.Media
Today, the only access road to the Wailing Wall from the Jewish Quarter is the stairway, a drop of about 26 yards.
Acco is one of the oldest cities in the world.
UNESCO is scheduled to vote Thursday on a Palestinian Authority initiative condemning Israel and denying Jewish ties to the city’s holy sites.
By JNi.Media
A kind of Jerusalem fever gripped much of the world from about 1000 to 1400. Across three continents, thousands made their way to the Holy City—from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions alike.
Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem by Arabs? How on Earth could Bibi make such a pernicious accusation? Perhaps, because it’s already happened back in 1948 when the Jordanians "purged" the Old City of JEWS
The terrorist's knife hit the policewoman's spine.
The Jordanian terrorist traveled to Israel to murder Jews in Jerusalem.
The bodies of the March 9, 2016 terrorists have been buried by their families.
Jerusalem Mayor Barkat is set to fire the ancient cannon to end the Islamic Ramadan fast.
(JNi.media) Her arms stretched to her sides for balance, American slackliner Heather Larsen on Monday walked the tightrope across a narrow, 100 ft. stretch from the Tower of David, also known as the Jerusalem Citadel, in Jerusalem’s Old City. “Learning about these places growing up and being able to come and visit, and then actually […]
Rabbi Dr. Elad Dukov of Haifa's Technion Institute of Technology was arrested Monday at the Temple Mount.
The attack happened just before 11 PM on Sunday. The terrorists attempted to shoot at a group of border policemen.
The 2,700-year-old seal of King Hezekiah the "closest thing to the king," says archaeologist.
Police arrested and are questioning the attacker, 22, from the Jabel Mukahber, adjacent to the Jewish neighborhood of Armon HaNatziv.
Shoshana Selavan, chairperson of the Old City's Jewish Quarter community, launches a new column on Jewish Life in the Old City.
Security footage of the attack and subsequent neutralization of the terrorist.
A protective vest saved the Border Policeman guard's life. A policeman killed the terrorist.
Two police officers were wounded by an Arab terrorist in the Old City. The attacker was killed.
By JNi.Media
Until 1948, where Muslims now reside used to be a Jewish neighborhood. You can see homes whose Jewish mezuzas-doorposts were torn off.
As the Arab Palestinians continue to encourage the murder of Jews in the Old City, others call for all to "maintain calm."
Two Israeli rabbis were murdered, a mother and baby were wounded in an Arab terror attack in the Old City of Jerusalem Saturday night.
It's just a trick of the wide-angle lens, but the minaret attached to the rebuilt Hurva synagogue, in the Old City of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, looks like an Israeli version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's actually straight in real life. How it got there is a long and unpleasant story.
CNN put the UNESCO site at the top of the list, implied Israel it to blame for its being "endangered but failed to mention Jordan's responsibility.
The Border Police officer is in critical condition but succeeded in critically wounding his attacker.
Terrorists are on the warpath as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan gets underway.
The annual festival takes place throughout and around the entire Old City of Jerusalem, and is a very popular attraction.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Final steps are underway for building the City of David’s “Kedem” visitor’s center in Jerusalem that will sit on top of the “Givati Parking Lot” excavation just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem’s walls. The visitor’s center will serve as an entryway to the Jerusalem Walls National Park, which includes the City of David […]
Police have arrested a 15-year-old Arab from Jerusalem.
Ramallah, the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority, provides a convenient cover for Jerusalem Arab terrorist.
Bystanders caught on video the police arresting one of the suspects in the Old City stabbing.
Card-carrying Arab citizens are showing their true colors.
Does that mean Kerry also will stay away?
Arab rioters threw firecrackers at Border Police in the Old City in Jerusalem Thursday and lightly wounded at least one tourist. Police arrested one Arab youth. Earlier in the day, Arabs hurled rocks at a bus in eastern Jerusalem. No property damage or injuries were reported, and one Arab was arrested. In the Jabel Mukaber […]
Should Jerusalem schools boycott Tel Aviv because of the danger from underworld killings?
Dozens of Arab rioters attacked Jewish owned buildings in Jerusalem's Old City.
Jerusalem once divided by barbed wire, now is divided by Arab rock-throwing terrorists.
Arab terrorists in Judea and Samaria are taking seriously a PA’ official’s support for murdering Jews.
Arab residents of the Old City rioted Thursday, sending two people to hospital and threatening the lives of security forces in the area. One police officer lost consciousness after being hit in the head with a rock, and a yeshiva student suffered abrasions, also in the head, during the rioting. the Hebrew-language 0404 website reported.
Rioting Arab youths hurled rocks at police on the Temple Mount but for once failed to end visits there on Tuesday.
Despite Arab and left-wing warnings, no violent reaction by either Arabs or int'l Muslim community to visit.
The Vatican has confirmed it has no plans to attempt a sovereignty grab at King David’s tomb, for now.
Israeli MKs from Likud and Labor plan to submit a bill allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
By Hana Levi Julian and Avi Tuchmayer
Jerusalem District and Border Police blocked a protest march by Jews on Tuesday to the Temple Mount.
Ateret Kohenim, an organization that is a leader in the national religious movement, plans to inaugurate a new yeshiva just before Passover next month, near the Damascus Gate in a predominantly Arab area immediately outside the walls of the Old City. Ateret Kohenim, which also operates yeshiva in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
A special monitoring system run by the University of Padova in Italy has been installed in the Tower of David heritage site as part of an international project that attempts to use technology to determine the structural weaknesses in an ancient edifice . The Tower of David is the tallest structure in the Old City […]
NBC reportedly has bowed to Palestinian Authority pressure and has cancelled plans to short part of its new “DIG” television series near the Old City in areas of Jerusalem claimed by the PA. "There was no plan made to film the series in the City of David National Park or in the village of Silwan, furthermore, […]
A high-speed train now under construction from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem may be extended to reach the Old City, according to an Israel Railways and the Transportation Ministry plan that will be stiffly opposed by Jerusalem planning authorities. The planned line includes a 1.5 mile tunnel linking the central train station, being built across the […]
Israelis take part at the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia charity bicycle race near the Jerusalem Old City walls.
The real “peace talks” are taking place in areas such as the Old City of Jerusalem, where Arabs threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at two Jewish homes Tuesday night. A guard was lightly wounded.
Dozens of soccer fans booked rooms Sunday night in Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel, where the FC Barcelona team was staying, to meet the players and then follow them to the Western Wall Monday morning as the team wrapped up their tour of Israel. The fans cheered them at the hotel desk and asked for autographs while […]
Jerusalem police have accelerated the shutdown of the Temple Mount to Jews and have barred them entry until next Sunday, sparking a planned protest rally for 7:30 Wednesday morning at the Mugrahbim Bridge entrance to the holy site form the Western Wall plaza. The police are keeping the Temple Mount open only for Muslims because […]
In Old Jerusalem, you need an archaeologist before you can build a restaurant. That is how the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a 19-foot high Crusade-era hospital building.
Two Jews were stabbed in separate attacks in Jerusalem on Wednesday, and police are investigating the possibility that one or both of them were terrorist attacks. Arabs are suspected in both knifings. One man, 52, suffered moderate to serious wounds when he was stabbed by an Arab in a bathroom at Shechem Gate in the […]
On Thursday evening, three Arabs attacked a young Jewish man in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The three attackers ran, but were eventually found and captured by a Border Police unit. During Ramadan, Arab attacks on Jews always increase inside the Old City.
By Nadia Matar
The Tisha B’Av Walk held by ‘Women in Green’ will be attended this year by Danny Danon, Rabbi Ben Dahan, Aryeh Eldad and Aryeh King. Police postponed departure time to allow Muslims to conclude Ramadan events on Temple Mount.
Watch a Chinese film crew capturing the magic of Jerusalem's Old City as a backdrop for a full-length romantic comedy. It’s also going to give Israel a big boost in tourism.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Police arrest everyone involved in the anti-Semitic attack in Jerusalem.
By Rafi Farber
It was not a political statement or a planned exercise in disobedience. It was a spontaneous act of religious devotion meant to provoke no one.
The E-1 area was always viewed by Israel and the U.S. as an area which would remain in Jewish hands.
By Hadar Sela
The picturesque Nachlaot neighbourhood in Jerusalem started out as what we might call today ‘social housing’. From 1875 onwards benefactors such as Moses Montefiore began building new neighbourhoods outside the walls of the Old City to house the growing Jewish population and relieve some of the overcrowding and squalor of the Jewish Quarter. Thus, Nachlaot is in fact a cluster of fused neighbourhoods, with each one originally having a specific ethnic character and its own synagogue.
HNN reports that during a search of a house in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem the police discovered 2 pistols, a pipe bomb, a stun grenade and Hamas flags. Two suspects were arrested.
Hundreds of Israeli Arabs protested outside Sha'ar Shchem (Damascus Gate) in Jerusalem on Friday. Four people were arrested as the crowd tried to march towards the US Consulate. Hundreds more Arabs protested in Yafo against the 'Innocence' film. The US has forbidden any government personnel to enter the Old City of Jerusalem today.
The US Government has forbidden government personnel from visiting the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday, and is restricting their travel within Judea and Samaria too (no information if that restriction also includes Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo and Har Homa). The US also recommends that all US citizens stay far away from (presumably Arab) […]
It’s election season, so Republicans can’t be blamed for expressing outrage when the political platform at last week’s Democratic National Convention removed support for Jerusalem being the capital of Israel.
Photographs seems like cruel slices from the past, frozen images of what will never be again. Since we assume the photographic image is, by and large, a factual view of some reality, it is inherently believed and trusted. But now be forewarned. It ain’t necessarily so. Bill Aron’s new images at the 92nd Street Y betray and beguile so as to force us to reassess the meaning of what we see.
The sale of a 185-room hotel at the entrance of Jerusalem on August 16 was not just a 17.5 million dollar real estate acquisition by Australian multi-millionaire Kevin Bermeister, but one investment in a broader and more calculated strategy to make Jerusalem a global tourism capital. Up next: a subway system servicing the Old City and a Jerusalem International Airport in the nearby desert.
Last night, an Israeli bus was pelted by stones thrown by Arabs as Jews traveled to the Western Wall. No, the Temple Mount itself is not enough for the Arabs and so they attack Jews who are even close by.
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 fourth annual Jerusalem Festival of Light is running through June 14th in the Old City of Jerusalem. This year the festival has grown to include ten international artists displaying the best artistic work in the field alongside dozens of performances, tours, local artists, and sites. Visitors (250,000 last year) perceive the artworks in the […]
Five yeshiva high school students from Jerusalem were detained Sunday, after an altercation with an Arab at “HaKotel HaKatan,” near the Western Wall, Honenu reports. The students were held in remand until the middle of the night and then released on condition of a restraining order banning them from entering the Old City of Jerusalem for 15 days.
The JewishPress.com staff went under the City of David with Doron Spielman of the City of David Museum - to areas not open to the general public. We were astounded by what we saw and learned. Join us on this 45 minute exploration of the hidden secrets under the City of David, the Old City, and the Kotel itself.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to surrender large swaths of Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority if they want peace. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat disagree.
A group of Jewish children and their parents were targeted in a fierce rock attack Friday night outside the Maale HaZeitim neighborhood in Jerusalem, miraculously escaping serious injury. Jerusalem police who arrived to investigate were also pelted with stones – and left.
By Tzvi Fishman
Here I was, just out of New York, not knowing what the Torah was really about, surrounded by tens of thousands of ecstatic davening Jews, with the choruses of “Amen, yihe shamai rabbahs” ringing in my ears like the blasts of the shofar on Mount Sinai. What can I tell you? New York and Hollywood were blown out of my brain, like a dream that never happened, just like the Psalm says: “When the Lord brings back the captives of Zion, we were like those who dream.”
The track passes though and stops in both Jewish and Arab neighborhoods. I have taken the train and noticed that both Jews and Arabs are regular commuters. All of the train’s signs, tickets, ticket machines, and public announcements are made very clearly in both Hebrew and Arabic. Signs of station names are posted in both Hebrew and Arabic.
This is not the first time Arabs have been engaged in the destruction of archaeological artifacts in Hebron. But recent acts of vandalism have been more methodical, leading to suspicion that they are purposeful and orchestrated by an entity bent on the erasure of archaeological artifacts that testify to the ancient Jewish roots in Hebron.
By David Wilder, Tazpit News Agency
Recently my wife and I spent Shabbat in Jerusalem with some friends. They made aliyah a year and a half ago and invited us to spend the day with them in the Holy City.
July 3, 2026 
