Jerusalem Controversy

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on Israel to join the fight against Russia and repeated a request for Israeli air defense systems. “Isn’t it time for your state to choose who you are with as well?” Zelenskiy said in a video speech to a conference for…

Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke Monday with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov in a call his office described as “positive,” despite tensions between the countries over Jerusalem’s refusal to provide Kyiv with defensive weaponry. The discussion included Israel’s offer to help Ukraine build an early warning system to notify citizens…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama arrived in Israel on Sunday for an official visit that will include a meeting with Israeli cyber defense officials, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Rama’s three-day visit came a month after Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over a July cyberattack that…

Soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, hours after a knife attack in east Jerusalem left an Israeli man in a serious condition. The Palestinian health ministry said Rabi Arafah Rabi, 32, was hit by “a bullet to the head” at a checkpoint south-east of…

Palestinian died in hospital after he was hit by a ‘bullet to the head’, says the Palestinian health ministry, and Israeli police shot another Palestinian in East Jerusalem after he stabbed an Israeli. Published On 22 Oct 202222 Oct 2022 Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian in the occupied West…

JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian health officials said, and a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli in Jerusalem, police said. The Israeli military said its troops were trying to detain a vehicle after its passengers had crossed…

Dead Sea-based producer and sound designer Yogev Freilichman comes together with Mexican video artist ERRANTH and Jerusalem art collective Excessive Productions to present Tectonic, a live, improvisational AV performance captured at ZIRA, a multidisciplinary space in Jerusalem dedicated to new and challenging art forms. “I wanted to explore several intersections between…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian man was shot and killed Thursday by an off-duty policeman after stabbing a pair of Israeli motorists at an intersection in central Israel, Israeli officials and media said. The incident came at a time of heightened Israeli-Palestinian violence. Israel has been conducting nightly military raids…

A Berlin event scheduled to honor the head of an ongoing UN probe investigating alleged Israeli crimes against Palestinians was called off this week after the city’s mayor pulled support for the city hall ceremony. Mayor Franziska Giffey said the event planned for Tuesday by the non-governmental United Nations Association…

Likud lawmaker Nir Barkat said he wants to split the role of the attorney general and turn the non-partisan office into a “position of trust,” in remarks made to a crowd of party activists gathered in Tel Aviv on Monday evening. The move was one of several posited by the…