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Participants in the 24th annual “Walk Around the Walls” of the Old City of Jerusalem, July 22, 2018. Source: Women in Green.

Despite Palestinian ire, 2,000 Jews march around Old City Jerusalem for Tisha B’Av

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Some 2,000 people took part in the Women in Green organization’s 24th annual “Walk Around the Old City,” in honor of the Tisha B’Av holiday on Sunday, despite calls on the international community by...
Palestinians holds pictures of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as they wear shirts with Turkish flags in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 20, 2016. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

Israel weighs measures to counter growing Turkish influence in Jerusalem

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Israel’s National Security Council has drafted a list of possible measures to take against the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) operating in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and Gaza, due to concerns that...
File photo: Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and his Slovakian counterpart President Andrej Kiska seen at a dinner held at the president's house in Jerusalem on March 29, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO

Slovakia declares it will move its embassy to Jerusalem

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“Slovakia is on its way to relocating its embassy to Jerusalem,” Head of the Slovak National Council Andrej Danko told President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the visiting delegation of Slovak lawmakers announced the...
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, tours the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple Mount on June 28, 2018 for an official visit to Israel. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Jerusalem mayor snubs Prince William after royal refusal to meet in the city

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Highlighting a glaring discord on the matter of Jerusalem between Israel and the United Kingdom, Prince William reportedly declined a request by Mayor Nir Barkat to meet in Israel’s capital, telling him that he...
Participants take part in "Remote X" in a Jerusalem cemetery. The tour is based on a skeleton of a narrative in which the performers are “remoted” from the normal ways they interact with the city, experiencing it as a meta-reflection while walking the streets. Credit: Eliana Rudee.

In Jerusalem, happy ‘horde’ indulges in ‘meta-reflection’ of reality

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As part of the annual Israel Festival in Jerusalem, I boarded the light rail with my fellow performers, each donning a white headset. Our choreographer was a pre-programmed Siri-like female voice named “Rachel” telling...
Israeli Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev speaks to the press at the sports ministry's offices in Tel Aviv on June 6, 2018. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Israeli sports minister: Argentinian soccer match canceled over ‘terrorism’

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Israel’s Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, speaking out after the cancellation of a friendly soccer match in Jerusalem between Israel and the Argentine national team, said it was a result of “terror threats”...
Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, June 6, 2018. Photo by Flash90

Why a soccer hooligan is smiling

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Jibril Rajoub is many things—a convicted terrorist, a former West Bank security chief, a former confidante of the late Yasser Arafat, and now the head of both the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestinian...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Czech President Milos Zeman in Jerusalem on Oct. 7, 2013. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90.

Czech Republic reopens its honorary consulate in Jerusalem

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The Czech Republic reopened its honorary consulate in Jerusalem on Wednesday following promises by President Milos Zeman to eventually move his country’s embassy to the Israeli capital. Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named as...
Workers at the archeological site, the Mount Antiquities Salvage Operation in Emek Tzurim, on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem’s Old City, Oct. 6, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90

Rare Jewish coins found in Temple Mount excavation

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Five exceptionally rare ancient coins from among the first-ever minted ones by Jews were discovered on the Temple Mount, evidence of Jewish activity at the disputed site. The small coins—three in pristine condition and two...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes at the official opening ceremony of the Paraguay embassy in Jerusalem on May 21, 2018. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO

New Paraguay Embassy inaugurated in Jerusalem

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The new Embassy of Paraguay in Jerusalem was opened in the Malha Technological Park on Monday, attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes, dignitaries, officials, and guests. The new embassy is the...