OPINION - It is a well-known fact that Israel's calmest border is its border with Syria. However, this calm can only be considered a tense ceasefire. It is clearly in the interest of Israel and the international community to strive for a positive peace agreement between Israel and Syria....
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told contestants in the International Bible Quiz he has been spending time on Shabbat studying Tanach. The prime minister admitted his new study routine is encouraged and guided by his 15-year-old son Avner, who won the National Bible Quiz last month. During the talk with the...
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Mayor Nir Barkat called the British Government’s condemnation of the use of pictures of the Western Wall in Tourism Ministry advertisements “a shameful accusation.” Earlier this week Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) barred the country’s tourist board from using images of the holy site, branding it “misleading.” “The...
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Arab protesters dressed a child in Hamas headwear during a protest Thursday afternoon in east Jerusalem's Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood, also known as Sheikh Jarrah, according to a report on Israel National News. During the protest, the demonstrators demanded the release of an Arab held by Israeli authorities on charges of...
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The Jerusalem Quartet won BBC Music Magazine's chamber award for the second time for their album of Haydn quartets during an awards ceremony yesterday at Kings Place, London. The award was voted for by the public and a jury of critics, reflecting the best of the 1,500 recordings reviewed...
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As Israel commemorates Yom Hashoah and world leaders gather in Washington to prevent nuclear terrorism, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled a newer, faster centrifuge and reiterated Iran’s plans to share its nuclear know-how with like-minded countries. Speaking at an April 9 state ceremony,...
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Jordan wants to take charge of the construction of the new Mughrabi Gate ramp leading from the Temple Mount to the Western Wall Plaza, but the government says Amman is seeking to take advantage of Israel's weak position on construction in the Old City and the rest of the...
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One in six Hungarian voters cast their ballots for the openly anti-Semitic party Jobbik in the Sunday’s elections. Mainstream voters who opposed the current Socialist government had the option of supporting the center-right Fidesz party, which won 53% of the vote.  A significant portion of the electorate,...
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The diplomatic fallout between Jerusalem and Washington following Vice President Biden's supposed insult over Israel's announcement that a construction plan in east Jerusalem had passed one stage of a multi-phase approval process seemed, to some observers, to have been staged. Biden was so gravely slighted by this dastardly act that...
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Jerusalem Dispatch presents the full text of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony held at Yad Vashem on Sunday night.
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Jerusalem District Police have launched an investigation to locate an 11-year-old boy they believe has been hidden from authorities in one of Jerusalem’s northern neighborhoods. Investigators suspect the boy’s mother, a French journalist residing in the capital, hid her son from the authorities after the Family Affairs Court ordered her...
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