"Hamas and other elements are heating up the area," said Interior Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch, who arrived at the scene of the rioting on the Temple Mount Friday when Muslim youths began hurling stones down toward the Western Wall Plaza and at police forces mobilized to restore order.
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Israel has given the green light for 112 new homes to be built in Beitar Illit despite a moratorium on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, said  Environment Minister Gilad Erdan on Monday. The expansion was revealed hours before the arrival of US Vice President Joe Biden and...
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Stones were rained down at worshipers beside the Western Wall on Friday for the first time in nine years. Nine years ago, of course, stones were thrown by Palestinians at the Temple Mount at the start of the second intifada. On Friday night Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli security...
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Clashes between Jews and Arabs continued on Saturday near the grave site of Shimon HaTzaddik in east Jerusalem as several thousand Arabs protested alongside radical Jewish leftists and anarchists against the Jewish presence in Arab neighborhoods. Waving Palestinian Authority flags and throwing rocks at Jewish homes, the demonstrators took advantage...
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Following a attack by hundreds of Palestinian youths hurling rocks at the Western Wall Plaza below, violence spread to other parts of the capital. The rioting began immediately after Friday’s sermon and prayers at Al-Aksa Mosque, spilling into the Muslim Quarter as well. In the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud,...
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Eighteen policemen suffered light wounds trying to restore order after Arab youths emerging from Friday prayers started hurling rocks down onto those worshiping at the Western Wall. Police used stun grenades, sponge bullets and pepper gas to quell the violence. Palestinians reported some 60 worshipers injured from gas inhalation in...
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OPINION - Well, President Barack Obama has passed his first year in office, and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is not the only one wondering whether American Jews might be experiencing "buyers' remorse." (For the Jews of Israel, the matter was long ago settled. The president has done nothing...
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Mayor Nir Barkat’s plans early this week to officially announce a new project for the Silwan neighborhood on the southern edge of the Old City were halted following international opposition and intervention by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Silwan, also known as the City of David, is an impoverished,...
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“Joe Biden has been a friend of the State of Israel for many years,” said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of the US Vice President’s scheduled visit to Jerusalem next week. “He has been a personal friend of mine for almost 30 years and I am convinced that this...
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The Israel Museum has pieced together two fragments celebrating the Jews' exodus from Egypt that originally belonged to the same 1,300-year-old Torah scroll. The Museum announced on Tuesday the exhibition of two extremely rare fragments of the same ancient Hebrew manuscript, separated for centuries and reunited for the first time....
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