At least three police officers were wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday morning, marking the fifth Palestinian terrorist assault in recent days.
Israel police on Sunday released bodycam footage of an officer neutralizing a Palestinian terrorist in a soccer field after he had stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem.
Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Australia over its decision to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital.
Israel on Tuesday slammed Australia and summoned the country’s ambassador after Canberra announced it no longer recognized western Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. “In light of the way in which the decision was made in Australia, as a hasty response
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has voiced his worry of negative “impact” if the UK relocates its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.
Britain’s newly minted Prime Minister Liz Truss is now officially considering moving the location of the UK’s Israeli embassy in a move mirroring a similar decision made by President Donald Trump.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she is reviewing moving the British embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Authorities in Jerusalem, New York, and London have discovered evidence that polio is spreading there. The source? An oral polio vaccine.
Israeli officials have expressed concern the U.S. will imminently sign a nuclear deal with Iran that will be “even worse” than the Obama-led 2015 accord, Hebrew-language news outlet Ynet reported, citing a senior Israeli intelligence official.
An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem shot seven people, including four American citizens, near Jerusalem’s Old City overnight Saturday, before turning himself in to police after an intense hours-long manhunt.
UK Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss said she would consider moving the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if she becomes prime minister next month.
Rocket sirens were heard in the Jerusalem area on Sunday morning, in the first occurrence of missiles launched by Gaza terrorists towards the Israeli capital since Israel’s military operation began two days ago.
President Joe Biden appeared to lose his way after delivering a speech Friday at a hospital in eastern Jerusalem.
President Joe Biden visited a hospital in eastern Jerusalem on Friday, comparing the historic plight of Irish Catholics to Palestinians.
The U.S. has rejected Israel’s request to allow Israeli officials to escort President Joe Biden’s contentious visit to eastern Jerusalem on Friday, marking a major departure from previous U.S. policy.
A Palestinian cleric said “not a single homosexual” should be allowed to live in the land of “Palestine” and Jerusalem, and called gay people an “abomination” during a sermon he gave at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
A Jerusalem court ruled on Sunday that Jews should now be permitted to recite the seminal Jewish “Hear o Israel” prayer as well as bow down on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, in a decision that sparked an outcry among Arab officials.
Israel on Tuesday swore in the first Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as a Supreme Court justice.
An Israeli man was sipping tea with his family on the porch of his home in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa on Sunday evening when he spotted an armed Palestinian trying to scale the security fence. The man, a father of seven, rushed his family inside and grabbed his M16 rifle and shot the terrorist.
A delegation of senior Hamas officials visited Moscow to meet with Russian officials amid ongoing clashes on the Temple Mount, a report from the Hebrew-language Walla website said on Wednesday morning.
Angry protesters hit the streets of Iran on Friday after a two-year pause driven by the coronavirus pandemic. They demanded the immediate destruction of Israel, the U.S. and the UK along with anyone who even dares to speak favorably of the Jewish state, as directed by paramilitary Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour of misleading viewers over Israel’s recent handling of Palestinian rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Israeli military hit terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a missile fired from the coastal enclave, which broke a four month lull in rocket fire.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Good Friday he was joining people all over the globe to remember what Jesus Christ did for them.
Amid a wave of Arab terrorism, the head of Israel’s Arab-majority Joint List party Ayman Odeh caused an uproar Sunday when he told Arab Israelis serving in the security forces to revolt and lay down their arms, because they were “humiliating” their own people.
The Israel Defense Forces have thwarted at least ten terrorist attacks in the last two weeks, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said, amid a spate of attacks and terror cell raids.
A top Palestinian Muslim scholar claimed on Turkish television Jews instigated the war in Ukraine in order to establish a new Jewish state there and that they now believe the embattled country is where “the Temple and biblical Jerusalem are located.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said Israel was spearheading many efforts to hold talks between his country and Russia and suggested Jerusalem might host a peace summit between the two sides.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Sunday that Israel has a “moral duty” to allow in more non-Jewish refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, following criticism of the government’s refugee policy that limited entry into the country to 25,000 Ukrainians not eligible for Israeli citizenship.
The Jerusalem Municipality on Sunday took down images of the Ukrainian and Russian flags alongside doves of peace hours after they were first projected on the walls of the Old City.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held an hour-long telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday evening, after the Ukrainian leader proposed Jerusalem host peace talks with Russia.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he’s open for talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Israel, but only if there is a cease-fire in place.
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel expressed his appreciation for Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s ongoing mediation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying his efforts were “priceless” and “worth more than weapons.”
Israelis staged their own Canada-style “Freedom Convoy” demonstration against coronavirus restrictions on Monday, with thousands of cars converging onto the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the capital of Jerusalem.
Violence broke out between Israelis and Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Sunday after an Israeli lawmaker reopened a makeshift “office” at the site in protest over a firebombing of a Jewish home. The move prompted the Hamas terror group to warn “Palestine would burn over Jerusalem.”
A snowstorm hit Jerusalem overnight Wednesday, prompting revellers and schoolchildren to take to the streets and dance it out in a holy winter wonderland.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the Israeli military have confirmed a successful test of the Arrow-3 missile defense system, which will help Israel defend against potential future aggression from nations such as Iran.
From the Gospel according to Luke, in the days after the birth of Jesus Christ on the first Christmas:
And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boasted of the Trump administration’s achievements in the Middle East while warning that the Biden administration is seeking to “reverse the historic progress we brought to the Middle East.”
President Joe Biden is reportedly backing down from plans to open a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem dealing specifically with Palestinians, after ruling into objections from Israel, obstacles in international law, and concerns about Iran nuclear talks.
