Jerusalem Controversy

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…

Related content (CNN) - Tourists in Jerusalem will be able to take a cable car right up to some of the Old City's key holy sites under controversial plans approved Tuesday. The cable car will bring 3,000 people an hour to the Old City, according to a tweet …

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…

When he visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem last May, many of the traditional Jews there could not have known that this controversial Rabbi Kirt Schneider - with a graying beard, a kippah, tsitsit and a tallit (Jewish garb) - was not really a rabbi.

The housing cabinet, led by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, on Monday approved the cable car project for the Old City of Jerusalem. The program offers a solution to the problem of accessibility to the southeastern basin of the Old City (the Western Wall Plaza…

On Monday, the cabinet approved a NIS 200 million plan to build a cable car that will connect the First Station in Jerusalem’s German Colony neighborhood with the Western Wall. Why? Good question. The allocation of the funds comes as Israelis have been wai…

Day trips to the holiest city in the world Whether youre religious or not, seeing Jerusalem will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience due to its immense cultural and historical significance its considered a holy place of worship in Judaism, Christianity and Is…

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 …