Jerusalem Controversy

The celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou has died in Jerusalem aged 99, the Ethiopian patriarchate said last week. Guebrou composed more than 150 works and recorded four albums during her career, according to a foundation created in her name. Born in 1923 to a wealthy family in…

The Palestinian presidency said on Saturday that the Israeli escalation in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, one of the holiest Muslim sites, could lead to an explosion in the situation on the ground. The official presidential spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned in a statement against what he described as…

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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…