Jerusalem Controversy

1995, Ken Shamrock vs Royce Gracie | Photo by Evan Hurd/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images Royce Gracie spoke with BloodyElbow.com ahead of Bellator 234 about everything but: Kazushi Sakuraba and catch-wrestling, Judo and Jiu-Jitsu on the mat, the cage and out on t…

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…

Gaza ‘Sickening hypocrisy’: Critics slam Israeli army Twitter postAl Jazeera 9 Nov — Social media users have called out the Israeli army for a Twitter post celebrating two female soldiers for cutting off their hair for a good cause. The Israeli army said the…

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…