Jerusalem Controversy

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of the country's Shin Bet domestic security service Ronen Bar that...Read More

JERUSALEM: Israel's negotiating team left for Qatar Monday for talks aimed at extending the fragile Gaza ceasefire, after Israel cut the Palestinian territory's electricity supply to ramp up pressure on Hamas. Ahead of the negotiations, Israel disconnected the only power line to a water desalination plant in Gaza, a move…

Police say organised crime gang fabricated a plan to bomb the Jewish site to divert law enforcement resources. An organised crime network fabricated a plot to attack a synagogue in Australia to divert law enforcement resources, according to police. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Monday that the discovery…

The Jerusalem Post speaks to the new head of JISS, ex-IDF intel. analysis chief Yossi Kuperwasser. By YONAH JEREMY BOB MARCH 9, 2025 20:37 Updated: MARCH 9, 2025 22:35 Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser. (photo credit: JISS) In July 2023, former IDF intelligence analysis chief Yossi Kuperwasser called to invade Gaza…

Author of the article: Published Mar 09, 2025  •  Last updated Mar 09, 2025  •  5 minute read Palestinians leave after attending the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the Imam Shafi'i Mosque, damaged by Israeli army strikes, in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City,…

The Jerusalem Post reported earlier this week Israel would return to fighting in Gaza in about a week and a half, barring a breakthrough in talks. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF MARCH 7, 2025 20:52 Updated: MARCH 7, 2025 21:09 Chief of the General Staff, LTG Eyal Zamir, conducted a tour…

(RNS) — Everyone fears a shrew, but we rarely try to understand them. Modern theater makers are consistently troubled about how to present Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” to today’s audiences, and readers of “Great Expectations” are likely to find Mrs. Joe Gargery as opaquely unsympathetic a character as they…

Muslim worshippers attend the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, in Al-Aqsa compound, also known as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, March 7, 2025. (Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad) The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has typically been a period of increased security challenges and terrorism for the Israeli authorities, particularly…

JERUSALEM - Israel’s top security agency ignored signs that Hamas would attack in October 2023 and was fooled into believing the militant group did not want all-out war, the agency reported in its own inquiry into one of Israel’s most devastating security failures. Shin Bet’s report was published on March…

Archaeologists found the remains of a chained individual in a Byzantine-era grave in Jerusalem. (Image credit: Matan Chocron / Israel Antiquities Authority) Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine -era grave held another surprise: The person…