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JERUSALEM  — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Jerusalem – The evening gowns shone under the spotlights and the tiaras sparkled, but this beauty pageant was like no other: all the contestants are Holocaust survivors.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told a visiting delegation of Democratic members of congress he will not give permission to the U.S. to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem.

Speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas over the weekend, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley discussed a variety of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, the U.N., and the Biden administration — which she argued could not be “counted on” to stop the Iranian nuclear program she deemed a threat to Israel’s existence.

Pope Francis received Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican Thursday for what was described as a “cordial” meeting between the two leaders.

Two-hundred Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their opposition to the reopening of the U.S. consulate in eastern Jerusalem, which formerly served as a de factor Palestinian embassy before being permanently shuttered by the Trump administration following its declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2018.

The Biden administration and the Israeli government are headed toward a diplomatic crisis, despite the Democrats’ delight at a post-Netanyahu government, based on fundamental disagreements that did not exist under the Trump administration.

A Palestinian teenaged terrorist stabbed two Israelis at a store near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem on Monday before being shot by a police officer.

Arizona is divesting all public funds from Ben & Jerry’s over the ice cream giant’s “anti-Semitic” decision to stop sales in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

Bennett gave up Israel’s right to oppose the Iran deal publicly; he gave up the principle of a united Jerusalem; and he failed to pressure the Biden administration on funding Palestinian terrorism.

Massive wildfires outside Jerusalem prompted the evacuation of several communities in the area, and caused the government to call for international aid.

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein blasted Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company on Tuesday while calling for the removal of its kosher certification.

The Islamist Ra’am party, which is part of Israel’s motley ruling coalition, on Sunday joined a chorus of condemnation from the Arab and Muslim world over the ascent of hundreds of Jewish pilgrims to the Temple Mount to commemorate the Jewish fast of Tisha B’av, claiming the flashpoint site – Judaism’s holiest – is the “sole property of Muslims.”

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday formally opened its embassy in Israel, a week after Jerusalem opened its own embassy in Abu Dhabi.

Archaeologists in Israel have unveiled a newly uncovered building near the Western Wall from the Second Temple period.

Jerusalem Imam Yousef Makharzah said in a Friday sermon that Muslims will shatter the “head of America” and the “infidels” and “conquer” Rome, while describing Jews as “too lowly” for Muslim consideration. His remarks come while pro-Palestinian demonstrators in major cities have been accused of attacking Jews and Democrats cozy up to the Palestinians.

In order for the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas to hold up, Jews must be barred from visiting the Temple Mount — Judaism’s holiest site — in Jerusalem, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers.

Any violations of the holy sites in Jerusalem would trigger a regional war, the head of Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, warned on Tuesday.

Palestinian leaders cut themselves off from the United States by their continued funding of terrorism and their refusal to negotiate for peace.

Palestinians rioted again Friday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, hurling stones and incendiary devices, and Israeli police were required to enter the Temple Mount compound to stop the violence — the same pattern that the Hamas Palestinian terrorist group used as a pretext to launch a war with Israel two weeks ago.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas backed Israel’s right to self defense Thursday while calling for a ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Gaza Strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas.

Aaron Klein, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote Monday that Palestinian Hamas terrorists must be condemned for deliberately using foreign journalists as human shields as opposed to Israel being criticized for targeting a terror complex disguised as an office building.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of major U.S. cities on Saturday, attacking Israel while voicing support for a string of pro-Palestinian demands.

Actors, popstars and Nobel Prize laureates have taken to social media to accuse Israel of “apartheid” and “crimes against humanity” for defending itself against the rocket barrage it faces from the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

A Jewish man was stabbed Thursday morning by a mob of Arab Israelis shouting “Allahu Akbar” in the central Israeli city of Lod, amid unrest and looting roiling mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel. The turmoil comes as rockets from the Hamas-ruled

Downtown Chicago streets were flooded Wednesday afternoon by thousands of protesters damning Israel’s ongoing acts of self defense from attack by Palestinian terror rockets.

Enormous banners hailing the Hamas terror group and its terrorist leaders have been hung on the Temple Mount as worshipers gather for Eid al-Fitr prayers at the holy site.

Aaron Klein, an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, said ‘diplomatic-speak’ drawing “moral equivalence” between Israel and terrorists helps Hamas.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday took to social media and urged Palestinians to attack Israel through their armed Hamas wing, calling for them to “stand strong” and “confront the enemy” as terror rockets rained down on Tel Aviv.

A mob of stone-throwing Palestinians attempted to lynch an Israeli driver near the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, amid riots stoked by Palestinian leaders.

The head of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has blamed ongoing riots in Jerusalem on an “unfair and unjust situation” afflicting the Palestinian people, Vatican News reported Monday.

The ongoing violence in Jerusalem is a political game Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is playing in order to boost his popularity following his cancellation of the elections that had been scheduled for later this month, the head of a watchdog told Breitbart Jerusalem on Monday in an exclusive interview.

Israel on Monday rejected “serious concerns” expressed by the United States over violent clashes in Jerusalem between police and Palestinian rioters.

Pope Francis urged for common solutions to recent turmoil in Jerusalem Sunday, as the city prepares for Monday’s annual Jerusalem Day parade.

Muslims around the world are beginning to celebrate the second Ramadan holy month of the pandemic era, once again seeking to navigate different lockdowns and social distancing requirements in various countries, plus economic travails and factional conflicts exacerbated by the coronavirus.

Samantha Power, nominated to lead USAID, directly contradicted her position on Jerusalem in 2016, when she and Obama allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass.