Jerusalem Controversy

JTA — Avi Mayer, a pro-Israel activist and communications professional with a large following on social media, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. Mayer, 38, will take over for the current editor of the 90-year-old English language newspaper in mid-April, after Passover. “I look forward to…

The minister accuses the P.A. radio station of inciting terrorism. (March 20, 2023 / JNS) Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday ordered the closure of the Voice of Palestine radio station’s broadcaster center in Jerusalem. The official radio station of the Palestinian Authority is operated by the Palestinian…

Jerusalem CNN  —  The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a change Monday to a key part of its controversial plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system, marking its first climbdown in the face of massive public protests and international pressure, including from US President Joe Biden. Opposition…

Palestinian officials on Monday expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the security summit with Israel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, while Hamas and other Palestinian factions continued to criticize the Palestinian Authority for participating in the gathering, held under the auspices of the US Representatives…

Author of the article: Published Mar 12, 2023  •  1 minute read JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the government would assess the effect of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse on Israeli companies and determine whether or not to assist them. Israel is home to a…

Jerusalem CNN  —  Half a million Israelis took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial system, organizers claimed. Israel has a population of just over nine million, so if organizers’ estimates are correct, about…

President says no decision has yet been made on whether it will become the first E.U. member to move its legation to Israel’s capital. (March 5, 2023 / JNS) Hungary is reportedly preparing to move its embassy to Jerusalem next month, although the European country’s president said that no official…

March 4, 2023 — Tel Aviv (AFP) Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday for a ninth consecutive week to protest government legal reforms critics see as threatening democracy. Protests also occurred in Jerusalem and Karmiel near Haifa. The latest rally in Tel Aviv came after…

Two brothers and their sister, aged 3, 4, and 8, respectively, were fatally injured Thursday morning when they were hit by a car in the Shuafat refugee camp of East Jerusalem. United Hatzalah paramedics who arrived at the scene reported eyewitnesses saying the children were hit as they were walking…

Author of the article: Reuters Maayan Lubell and Ali Sawafta Published Mar 01, 2023  •  2 minute read JERUSALEM/ HUWARA, West Bank, March 1 (Reuters) – Israeli police have arrested five suspects over a Jewish settler rampage in the occupied West Bank earlier this week that an Israeli general described…