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An open letter to President Biden on his planned visit to eastern Jerusalem

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ear Mr. President, It is with respect that I write to you today to express my deepest concerns over reports of your proposed visit to symbolic Palestinian Authority institutions in eastern Jerusalem during your forthcoming...
Designing Memory at the Tower of David Museum. Photo: Ricky Rachman

A hat trick of monumental architectural designs in Jerusalem

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Pristine white trousers and a crisply ironed linen shirt may not seem like the appropriate work attire at a construction site. But architect Etan Kimmel of Kimmel Eshkolot Architects in Tel Aviv, looks at...
The Pillsbury plant in Jerusalem's Atarot industrial zone. Credit: Courtesy.

General Mills refutes claims by BDS movement that it is boycotting Israel

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Days after the Minnesota-based food-manufacturing conglomerate announced it had sold its stake in an operation based at a Jerusalem plant, General Mills released a statement emphasizing that the decision was all business, and no...
Palestinians protest on the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on April 15, 2022. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Jordanian foreign minister challenges Israeli sovereignty on Temple Mount

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Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said earlier this week that “Israel has no sovereignty over the holy sites in Jerusalem.” “Israel has no sovereignty over the Al-Aqsa mosque. It is a Muslim place of worship,...
King Abdullah II of Jordan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

President Biden to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in White House visit

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U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein at the White House on Friday. According to a White House news release, the meeting “will reinforce the close friendship and...
Jews visit the Temple Mount compound, site of the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Oct. 8, 2017. Photo by Yaakov Lederman/Flash90.

Poll finds half of Jewish Israelis support Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

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Fifty percent of the Jewish population of Israel support Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, according to an Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Israeli Voice Index poll. The survey...
A Jewish group tours the Temple Mount under police supervision. Note the 'Al-Quds' caption claiming they were “breaking into the Al-Aqsa mosque” on the “so-called Passover holiday.” Source: Al-Quds.

Changes to the ‘status quo’ on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount since 1967

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The status quo on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as formulated by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in 1967, no longer exists. Today, the reality on the mount is very different from what it...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (third from left) tells Arab ambassadors during an Iftar meal to break the Ramadan fast that Israel is protecting freedom of worship throughout the country and especially in Jerusalem, April 25, 2022. Credit: Elad Malka, Israeli Ministry of Defense.

Gantz to Arab ambassadors: Israel fostering regional ties, enabling prayer in Jerusalem

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Israel is taking “unprecedented measures” to safeguard Muslim freedom of worship at the Temple Mount in Old City Jerusalem, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told ambassadors from Arab countries at an Iftar dinner on...
Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir joins a right-wing flag march through Jerusalem on April 20, 2022. Source: Twitter.

Israeli police block Jewish protest flag march in Jerusalem

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Israeli Police blocked a right-wing flag march through Jerusalem on Wednesday that participants said was a response to what they see as a weak government reaction to Arab violence in the Old City. The police...
Images of Israeli and American flags projected onto the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, following the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

America’s biblical roots

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The following is an abridged version of the Distinguished Rennert Lecture, delivered on April 19 by Ambassador David Friedman upon receipt of the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for...