Jerusalem Controversy

Today is a historic day for Honduras and Israel, Hernandez said. He added that he would move Honduras’ embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem next month. The trade office, which also has diplomatic status, will bring more investment and more opportunities for t…

Honduras on Sunday opened a trade mission with diplomatic status in Jerusalem, a move the Latin American country’s president said was a “first step” toward moving the embassy to the city. “Today is a historic day for Honduras and Israel,” Juan Orlando Hernan…

JERUSALEM (JTA) As a spiritual activist, I feel a deep calling to build bridges between people and their inner selves. My own story involves building and crossing many bridges. Gender identity dysphoria accompanied me at birth 68 years ago, severely impactin…

The room in Jerusalem’s Ramat Rachel Resort earlier this week was seemingly jammed with a homogenous crowd — bearded Ashkenazi, Orthodox men in a range of ages — for a Noam Party campaign rally. (Latest election polls – click here) >> Subscribe for ju…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration won’t release any parts of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan before the Israeli election on September 17, the president's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt said Wednesday. >> Subscribe for just $1 now "We have decid…

The book of Deuteronomy is dedicated entirely to Moses’s parting speeches from the nation. Many issues are raised in these speeches, with the common denominator being the preparation of the nation as it is about to enter Canaan and encounter the nations there…

A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor who was born in Auschwitz and worked in slave labor camps during the war shared his story with visitors to the Western Wall in Jerusalem this week. Samuel Beller, who was rescued from a Nazi death march in the end of the war …

Henk Ovink, the first Water Ambassador of the Netherlands, recently visited an exhibition on display at the Tel Aviv Museum called ‘Solar Guerrilla: Constructive Responses to Climate Change.’ Ovink serves as a special Water Ambassador of the Netherlands in th…

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump hinted on Monday that his administration could publish some parts of its plan for Middle East peace even before Israel’s September 17 do-over elections. >> Subscribe for just $1 now Trump was asked during his m…

Of late, a new villain was introduced into political discussions about the future of the Middle East. There are those who said that the responsibility for a thousand years of Middle Eastern obstinacy, radicalism, and fundamentalism has now been compressed int…