Palestinians rioters clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Hebron over construction at the Tomb of the Patriarchs to make the site wheelchair accessible, a move Palestinian officials have called a “war crime” that merits the launch of a bloody third intifada.
Jews held prayers for the re-election of “lover of Israel,” President Donald Trump, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the city of Hebron, attended by local political leaders.
Prayers for the success of President Donald Trumps’ reelection will take place on Monday morning at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the holy city of Hebron, attended by local leaders.
Israel’s plans to make the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron wheelchair accessible has sparked outrage among the Palestinian officials, who slammed it as a “war crime” that merits the launch of a bloody third intifada.
TEL AVIV – A Palestinian teenage girl who tried to sneak a knife into the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday was detained by security forces, police said.
Israel officially left the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on New Year’s Day in protest at the agency’s inability to combat its own politicization and profound anti-Israel bias.
An Israeli soldier was lightly injured in an apparent stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday morning, the army said.
An improvised explosive device was thrown at Israeli security forces at the entrance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday night in the second incident this week, police said.
Sappers detonated an improvised explosive device found near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Sunday, police said. Border police manning a station just outside the tomb noticed the suspicious device and immediately cleared the area and summoned the sappers.
Israeli troops thwarted an attempted car-ramming attack Saturday in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the army said.
Border Police officers on Tuesday arrested a Palestinian teenager who tried to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron with a knife.
Border guards arrested a Palestinian teenager on Monday morning, as he tried to dodge security at a checkpoint leading to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, police said.
JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday blamed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for helping to fuel anti-Israel incitement regarding false threats to the Temple Mount.
TEL AVIV – An Arab Muslim Israeli, who describes herself as a Zionist, slammed the UN’s cultural agency for its decision to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an “endangered World Heritage site” under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – An unnamed Arab ambassador to the UN’s cultural agency reportedly apologized in secret to his Israeli counterpart for having “no choice” but to vote in favor of a controversial resolution that listed the Old City of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs on a list of endangered sites under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV — A Palestinian assailant wounded one Israeli soldier in an attempted car ramming and stabbing attack outside the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, located northeast of Hebron.
Raging over a decision by a UN body to declare Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs a part of endangered Palestinian heritage, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday recited Biblical verses meant to prove the millennia-old Jewish connection to the West Bank site.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed Friday’s decision by UNESCO to list the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Old City of Hebron as an “endangered World Heritage site” under the “State of Palestine,” saying it was an “affront to history” that was “tragic on several levels.”
As the Palestinians’ own behavior in Hebron shows, they have no qualms about unilateralism. Ironically, they have given President Trump a perfect opportunity to fulfill his promise.
TEL AVIV — The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday declared the Tomb of the Patriarchs – considered the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount – to be a Palestinian world heritage site in danger.
Holocaust victims and Palestinians were both given moments of silence Tuesday at a United Nations meeting after a Cuban representative objected to a moment of silence for those killed in the Holocaust — amid continued claims that the U.N. has a deep-seated anti-Israel bias.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called on the secretary-general of the UN and the UNESCO chief to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to inscribe Hebron’s old city and the Tomb of the Patriarchs on list of endangered sites under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni slammed UNESCO for repeatedly passing anti-Israel resolutions and called on the cultural agency to reject an upcoming vote pushed by the Palestinians designating the city of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – one of Judaism’s holiest sites – as endangered sites under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Israel’s mission to the UN is petitioning the organization’s cultural agency UNESCO to conduct a secret ballot for the vote on whether to list Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs, a Jewish holy site, as an endangered world heritage site under the “State of Palestine.”
TEL AVIV – Israel on Friday banned a UNESCO fact-finding mission from entering to the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a Palestinian-led effort to have the Tomb of the Patriarchs added to the list of endangered world heritage sites under the “State of Palestine.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting of officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the organization said.
Border Police troops arrested a Palestinian woman Wednesday in possession of a knife near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, a police spokesperson said.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian vandals removed and desecrated a mezuzah – a religious parchment affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes – from the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Friday, Arutz Sheva reported.
A Palestinian man was arrested Saturday near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in possession of a knife. Border Police officers stationed at the religious site were alerted by the 19-year-old and found a blade on his person. The suspect was taken
