Jerusalem Controversy

Liel Krutokop, an 11-year-old girl from Petah Tikva, has found a silver shekel from the Second Temple period on the ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel. The 2,000-year-old silver shekel. Image credit: Israel Antiquities Authority. “The silver coin weighs about 14 grams. On one side is an…

A planning committee on Monday significantly delayed a massive housing project for ultra-Orthodox Jews on the grounds of the disused Atarot airport in East Jerusalem, whose initial advancement last month sparked significant backlash from the Biden administration. At the conclusion of a highly anticipated hearing of the Jerusalem District Planning…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian after he stabbed and wounded an ultra-Orthodox Jew on Saturday near Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City, a tense and crowded area that is often the scene of demonstrations and clashes. A widely circulated video shot by a bystander appeared…

Jerusalem now has a second golden dome, as those driving along the main road to the east of the Beit Safafa neighborhood will have noticed. But unlike the famous Dome of the Rock in the Old City, adorned with 5,000 actual gold plates financed by the late king Hussein of…

Israeli border police officers fatally shot a Palestinian man suspected to have stabbed a Jewish man before lunging at officers with a knife near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Saturday, December 4, Israel Police said. Police said the stabbing victim was taken to a nearby medical center in moderate condition…

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One of Jerusalem’s newest attractions is an educational farm where visitors can learn about traditional agriculture. Guests to the site, on land controlled by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA), can walk amid the farm’s newly built terraces nestled into the Hinnom Valley, checking out models of early irrigation…

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AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — The Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, whose authority extends over some 130,000 Middle Eastern Christians, has posted a memo on the patriarchate website that appears to overturn a 45-year-old agreement with Western Christian churches to unify the celebration of Christian holidays. Since 1975, Western and…