Jerusalem Controversy

This trip to Israel continues to be a trip of my life. I am grateful that my good friend Steven Schwarz made last minute room for me to join. Steven has been very active as a past president of the Phoenix Federation and now focuses on mentoring young people w…

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…

Israel's government has approved a controversial cable car that will ferry thousands of passengers every hour over the homes of Palestinians in east Jerusalem to within a few hundred yards of the Old City's Western Wall. The plan, which was given the green …

Plans to build a huge outreach center for evangelical Christian tourists visiting Jerusalem – among the most touted construction projects on the Holy City’s landscape in recent years – have been scrapped, the developers told Haaretz newspaper on Wednesday. T…

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…

Critics says the cable car plan will mar the Jerusalem skyline - AP Israels government has approved a controversial Jerusalem cable car that will ferry thousands of passengers an hour over Palestinian homes in the east of the city to within a few hundred yar…

Israels government has approved a controversial Jerusalem cable car that will ferry thousands of passengers an hour over Palestinian homes in the east of the city to within a few hundred yards of the Western Wall. The plan, which was given the green light th…

The remodeling of the Western Wall's basic structure will be completed on Wednesday and will cause the entrance to the prayer space to be closed periodically. The construction team is dismantling the crane that is on the Kotel and to ensure the safety of al…

Image copyrightYouTubeImage caption The Old City of Jerusalem is a Unesco World Heritage site A controversial plan to build a cable car network in Jerusalem's Old City to transport visitors to one of Judaism's holiest sites has been approved by Israel's ho…

Plans to build a huge outreach center for evangelical Christian tourists visiting Jerusalem – among the most touted construction projects on the Holy City’s landscape in recent years – have been scrapped, the developers told Haaretz. The $60 million, seven-s…