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Sen. Gustavo Leite, chairman of the Paraguayan Israel Allies Caucus; Vice President-elect Pedro Alliana; President of the Senate Silvio Ovelar; President-elect Santiago Peña, Leopoldo Martinez, IAF Latin America director; and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Raul Latorre. Credit: Courtesy. | courtesy

Paraguay poised to return embassy to Jerusalem

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Paraguay will move its embassy back to Jerusalem, in a sign of growing support for Israel in Latin America, a Paraguayan senator said on Monday. Sen. Gustavo Leite spoke a week before Paraguayan President-elect Santiago Peña,...
Jerusalem's new suspension bridge over the Hinnom Valley, as seen from Mount Zion. Photo: Eliyahu Yanai/City of David.

New suspension bridge makes Jerusalem holy sites accessible

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Jerusalem is due to unveil Israel’s longest suspension bridge on Sunday night, connecting Mount Zion with the Hinnom Valley to the south. The bridge will make Mount Zion’s holy sites and Jerusalem’s Old City...
This 2,000-year-old coin was discovered in Jerusalem's City of David National Park. Credit: The Israel Antiquities Authority.

Evidence of Second Temple’s destruction unearthed in Jerusalem

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Tangible evidence of the destruction of the Second Temple and the devastating events that unfolded in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago has come to light with the discovery of a rare coin in Jerusalem’s City...
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, July 27, 2023. Source: Twitter.

Ben-Gvir ascends Temple Mount for Tisha B’Av

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Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Thursday in observance of Tisha B’Av. The annual fast day commemorates tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, with a focus on the...
Rabbi Shalom Gold in 2022. Credit: YouTube.

‘A powerful advocate for the Land of Israel’: Rabbi Gold dead at 88

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Rabbi Shalom Gold, the Brooklyn-born founder of Congregation Zichron Yosef in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, was buried at the capital's Har Hamenuchot cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Rabbi Gold was hospitalized on Friday after contracting an...
Construction work at the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, Dec. 9, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

250 million shekels for improvements to Jewish Quarter

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Israel's Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Tradition signed an agreement with the Society for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City to invest a quarter of a billion...
Muslims pray near the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount during the Eid al-Adha holiday, June 28, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Muslims nearly 40% of Jerusalem residents

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Nearly four in 10 Jerusalemites are Muslim, statistics released Tuesday by the Central Bureau of Statistics show. Some 371,000 Muslims live in Israel's capital, making up 38% of residents, according to the figures published for...
A close-up of one of the casements in the city wall of Khirbet Qeiyafa. Photo by Yossi Garfinkel.

Kingdom of Judah expanded earlier than thought, new study finds

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According to a study by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Judah expanded earlier than was previously believed by archaeologists, confirming biblical accounts. The article, by Institute of Archaeology professor Yosef...
The Nile River, Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea, contrasted by the desert nations of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan, as seen from the International Space Station, June 19, 2019. Credit: NASA.

Emirati astronaut: From space, Jerusalem looks like ‘flower of all flowers’

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Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi’s Twitter feed is full of photos of different parts of the world taken from the International Space Station. On June 22, Al Neyadi—whose handle states that he is part of...
Jewish men praying for forgivness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, early on September 16, 2022, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana. Photo: Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90

The battle of the Zionisms

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The Palestinians have taken the old adage, “If you can’t beat them, join them” and expanded it to “If you can’t beat them, copy them, and then try to beat them.” Muslim armies conquered the...