“Israeli forbearance is rewarded with violence.”
The other conflict over the Temple Mount.
Jews and Muslims, tolerance and intolerance.
In parts of the city, stone throwing has become a daily event.
The chief Islamic judge of Jordan was heckled there by Palestinians.
The Second Temple was built in Jerusalem by returnees from Babylonian exile around 516 BCE. Some 500 years later, King Herod undertook a program of. . .
In the past weeks, Palestinian leaders from both Fatah and Hamas have been inciting their people to violence with claims that Israel is planning to. . .
The reason Jews can’t pray at Judaism’s holiest site.
Since taking Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, Israel has always shown caution and restraint when it comes to the Temple Mount. In particular, prayer on. . .
A gold medallion, newly on display at the Israel Museum, is from a 7th-century trove found at the base of the Temple Mount. But what. . .
As a simple matter of religious freedom and equal rights, Jews, like Muslims, should be allowed to pray atop Judaism’s holiest site.
The “Sharansky” plan for a non-Orthodox worship section at the Western Wall deserves the support of both Israelis and Diaspora Jews.
The first known photographs of Jerusalem, taken when Ottoman Turks ruled the city, show a Temple Mount and Western Wall in disrepair and surrounded by rubble.
A gold medallion etched with the image of a menorah may be the oldest Torah ornament ever found in an archaeological dig.