Jerusalem Controversy

Home Secretary Sajid Javid visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories earlier this week to discuss the regions security, tackling extremism and the importance of freedom of religion. On Sunday 30 June, Mr Javid visited Ramallah where he met the …

Palestinians are outraged after high profile American officials participated in the inauguration of a disputed tunnel in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and White House Middle East Envoy Jason Greenblatt were all smi…

Home Secretary Sajid Javid placed a note between the stones of Jerusalem’s Western Wall today during a two-day visit to Israel. Before meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and after a deeply moving and emotional visit to the national Holocaust m…

Sajid Javid, British Home Secretary, was the first senior British official to visit the Old City of Jerusalem and the Western Wall in 19 years. He was greeted on Monday by the Director of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Mordechai (Suli) Eliav. The Home …

Looking at the photos of American Ambassador David Friedman, the prime minister's wife Sara Netanyahu and David Be’eri, the director of the right-wing Elad foundation, all swinging sledgehammers to break down an underground wall to inaugurate a settlement pro…

My name is Cristian Geelen and I am a photographer from Haarlem, the Netherlands. The real one. Not the one in New York City haha And mainly I keep myself busy with travel and documentary photography. Not only where I am from, but I try to see as much of…

Almost a footnote to these regional tensions, on Sunday evening, a ceremony was held to inaugurate the “Path of the Pilgrims” excavation of a tunnel running under the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. The event had an unusual guest list, which, in its ow…

We are proud to support organizations that help promote Jewish life all over the Land of Israel, said Falic, whose business is based in Miami, Florida. The idea that the mere existence of Jewish life in any geographical area is an impediment to peace makes no…

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UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday made a rare visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Temple Mount on the last day of three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank. Javid, who comes from a Muslim family, donned a traditional Jewish skullcap as he toured th…