Jerusalem Controversy

A suspected assailant was killed by Israeli soldiers after a West Bank car ramming Saturday, the army said, in an escalation that threatens to end a relative lull during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan so far. The Palestinian's death came less than 24 hours after an Arab Israeli allegedly…

Earlier, an Arab Israeli was killed while perpetrating a terrorist attack near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (April 1, 2023 / JNS) Three Israeli soldiers were wounded on Saturday night in a car-ramming attack near the village of Beit Ummar, located northwest of Hebron in Judea. Magen David Adom emergency…

Israeli police on Saturday shot dead an Arab man who they said grabbed a gun from an officer and fired it in a scuffle at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound. The dead man was identified as 26-year-old medical student Mohammed al-Asibi, a resident of the Bedouin village of Hura, in southern…

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Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations’ Security Council on Saturday for a month, a move decried as an April Fool’s Day joke by critics. “As of 1 April, they’re taking the level of absurdity to a new level,” said Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s permanent representative, according to The…

Former senior police officials said Saturday it seemed unlikely that there was no footage of the deadly shooting of a man by security officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Police have described the incident as a “terror attack,” while eyewitnesses and the man’s relatives have denied the official account. Police said…

Oksana Markarova hailed U.S. Jewish support before the start of a celebratory seder for diplomats, during which she noted Chassidic leader Reb Nachman of Breslov. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States told a gathering of Jewish media this week that Iran’s partnership with Russia has…

March 31, 2023 — Jerusalem (AFP) Thousands of Muslims packed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the second Friday of Ramadan, for peaceful prayers that saw no clashes with the Israeli security forces, an AFP journalist reported. The Jordanian body which administers the mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem said that…

Security forces were on alert in Jerusalem and the West Bank as tens of thousands of Muslims took part in mass prayers on the second Friday of Ramadan, including at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Border Police deployed 2,300 soldiers in Jerusalem and its surroundings and in…

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