Jerusalem Controversy

Along the ancient cobbles of Jerusalems St George Street, just inside the forbidding bulk of the Jaffa Gate, there is a family business that has been making its mark on visitors for 700 years. The Razzouk family have been tattooing Christian pilgrims since t…

From an erupting volcano in Guatemala to the 50°C heat of Djibouti to the mountains of the Himalayas in Nepal, ultra-runner Nick Butter has run marathons the length and breadth of the planet over the last two years. On Thursday, Israel became the 195th out o…

Visitors to the egaliarian prayer section of the Western Wall have been margenalized since July 2018, when a stone detached itself from the southern section of the Western Wall onto the plaza. Follow Ynetnews on FacebookFONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold…

The German-Israeli Association (DIG) elected as its new director the Christian Democratic Union Party politician Uwe Becker, who pledged in late October a more aggressive posture toward Chancellor Angela Merkel’s largely pro-Iranian regime and Hezbollah polic…

The housing cabinet of the outgoing government will discuss approving a planned cable car system leading to the Old City as activists protest the decision being discussed under a transitional government. Attorney Itay Mack, who spoke on behalf of "coalition …

The story of the Flood stands at the center of this week’s Torah portion, with Noah himself the central character. The story of the Flood begins when in ancient times, humanity had deteriorated to such moral lows that murder, rape and stealing became acceptab…

All around the Jewish world, people dedicate the months of Elul and Tishrei to introspection and tshuva (repentance). This year, I would like to focus on the tshuva of the month of Heshvan, the tshuva of “after the High Holidays.” As we do every year, the Wes…

Acclaimed retired soccer players from both Brazil and Israel played a friendly match in the Jewish state to promote coexistence. Some 28,000 fans saw Brazilian veterans beat their Israeli counterparts, 4-2, at the Shalom Game held Tuesday in the mixed Jewish…

The heads of the Agudat Yisrael faction of the Ashkenazic-haredi UTJ party met Tuesday night in Jerusalem in order to discuss the political deadlock. According to them, there is a very real possibility that Israel will be forced to hold a third round of elec…

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz pledged on Tuesday to promote religious pluralism in Israel and implement the abandoned Western Wall agreement should he become prime minister. He was speaking at the Jewish Agency Board of Governors meetings where he and…