Jerusalem Controversy

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…

Updated February 21, 2023 at 6:24 PM Published February 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM JERUSALEM – Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Jerusalem for a second straight Monday as Israel’s far-right government pushed forward with a divisive plan for a judicial overhaul that critics say will weaken and politicise…

Tens of thousands of protesters against the government’s plan to radically overhaul the judiciary assembled outside the Knesset on Monday for a rally as the coalition prepared to hold a first vote on a key piece of legislation shoring up the plan. Masses gathered outside parliament waving blue and white…

How many people attended Monday’s protest in Jerusalem against the government’s planned legal overhaul? Nobody knows for sure, and estimates diverge widely. Following the event, police sources estimated that about 90,000 people attended the protest, while some organizers put the number at 130,000, others at 250,000, and a high-tech group…

The bill passed a vote on the Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee and is set for its first reading before a full legislative body on Wednesday...Read More

The cabinet on Sunday approved the legalization of nine outposts deep in the West Bank in response to a string of recent Palestinian terror attacks in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the decision in a statement, listing the illegal outposts as Avigayil, Beit Hogla, Givat Harel, Givat Arnon,…

The mother of the two young boys who were killed on Friday in a Palestinian terror attack spoke Sunday of her loss, and of the moments of the attack, which also seriously injured her husband. Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 5, and his brother, Asher Menahem Paley, 7, died after a terrorist…