Jerusalem Controversy

Mark Rylance (second left): an astonishing performance “There’s mighty, and then there’s Mark Rylance in Jerusalem, a performance so powerfully connected to its part that it feels almost superhuman,” said Matt Wolf in The New York Times. Back in 2009, Jez Butterworth’s play, and Rylance’s astonishing central turn in it, took the…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces were waging a massive manhunt Friday for two Palestinians suspected of carrying out a stabbing rampage near Tel Aviv that left three Israelis dead. The stabbing on Thursday, Israel’s Independence Day, was the latest in a series of deadly assaults deep inside the country…

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Israeli police entered a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem to clear away Palestinian protesters on Thursday, after Jewish visits that had been paused for the Muslim holidays resumed. Recent weeks have seen several rounds of clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site for Muslims, which is built…

/ Middle East Issued on: 05/05/2022 - 10:32Modified: 05/05/2022 - 12:46 A member of the Israeli security forces secures the area at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on May 5, 2022. © Ammad…

Tense divide between Jews and Palestinians will be exacerbated, not relieved, critics say Jewish worshippers pray before the traditional priestly blessing prayer on the holiday of Passover, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 18, 2022. Photo by Ronen Zvulun / Reuters From high on a ridge…

The Israeli Air Force will hold its annual Independence Day flyover Thursday, with various aircraft zipping over cities and towns throughout the country over the course of the morning and into the early afternoon. The flyover will include F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter jets; Lavi training aircraft; C-130 cargo planes;…

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Saturday 30 April 2022 11:13 am After Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court in 2009 it began to generate a reputation as the greatest play of the 21st century. It’s hard to do justice to the level of prestige which has surrounded the show since; within theatre circles it is…

TEL AVIV—Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem’s most contested site as large crowds of Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, ending a week of relative calm. The renewed skirmishing at Al Aqsa mosque compound raised the prospect of further violence ahead of a two-week period when Israelis celebrate the founding…