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Israelis walking in Jaffa street during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in Jerusalem on September 23, 2013. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Jewish American tourist celebrating Sukkot killed in Jerusalem hit-and-run

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An American Jewish tourist celebrating the Sukkot holiday in Israel was killed by a hit-and-run driver late Sunday night on the way back from prayers at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Walking near the Paris Square intersection...
Thousands pray for forgivness (Selichot), at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sep.t 16, 2018. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90 .

Israeli police thwart Arab terrorism in Jerusalem on Yom Kippur

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An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted on the night of Yom Kippur by Israeli police in Jerusalem. Just after the beginning of the holiday at 7 p.m., a 26-year-old man from the Palestinian village of...
Jewish worshippers pack the area in front of Jerusalem’s Western Wall for the "Birkat Kohanim," or "Priestly Blessing," during the holiday of Sukkot on Oct. 8, 2017. Credit: Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

A look at the eight candidates vying to succeed Nir Barkat as Jerusalem’s mayor

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The late Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek used to say that if one wants to uproot and replant a tree in Jerusalem, it might require the U.N. Security Council. He was not exaggerating. Jerusalem is home...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of Paraguay Horacio Cartes (left) at the official opening ceremony of the Paraguay embassy in Jerusalem on May 21, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Turkey to open embassy in Paraguay after policy-reversal on Israeli capital

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Turkey will open an embassy in the city of Asuncion in Paraguay, the South American country announced on Thursday, following current Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez’s reversal of the decision by the previous administration,...
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visits the Western Wall in May 2017. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.

US ambassador believes Golan will be ‘part of Israel forever’

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman believes that the Golan Heights will remain under Israeli sovereignty, and certainly won’t be placed back in the hands of Syria’s current leader, President Bashar Assad. In an exclusive...
Israel children from the Gaza border region enjoy games, face-painting and balloon animals at a crisis-relief event in Jerusalem. Credit: JNF.

Kids get a ‘time out’ from the unrest near Gaza

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For five months now, since March 2018, Israeli communities bordering Gaza have sustained ongoing terrorism and arson from hundreds of rockets and incendiary devices, causing constant stress and chaos for the 50,000 people who...
Thousands of people take part in the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on Aug. 2, 2018. Photo By Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Under heavy police security, thousands march in Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem

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Amid tensions and mass protests over equal surrogacy rights for gay couples in Israel, tens of thousands of people marched on Thursday afternoon in what is being billed as the largest-ever Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The...
Israeli and the American flags are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on May 13, 2018, ahead of the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Credit: Yontan Sindel/Flash90.

Jerusalem municipality fast-tracks expansion of and renovations to US embassy

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The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem will expand its office space, creating new entrances and service areas, thanks to fast-tracking of permits by the Jerusalem municipality. According to a report in Hadashot news, the expansion will...
Former MK Shuli Mualem of the Jewish Home Party at the Western Wall plaza after visiting the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on Aug. 29, 2017, after Knesset members received permission to go up to the site. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Abbas adviser: Israeli Knesset members on Temple Mount equals ‘Zionist ISIS-ism’

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Mahmoud al-Habbash, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ adviser on religious affairs, told the official P.A. daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida this month that the presence of Jewish Israeli Knesset members in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount “defiles”...

220-pound stone falls out of the Western Wall, narrowly missing a woman at prayer

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A woman praying in the egalitarian prayer plaza was narrowly spared from death on Monday morning when a 220-pound stone fell out of the Western Wall and plummeted to the ground. A woman—the only person...