Jerusalem Controversy

The rare medallion dates from from the turn of the sixth and seventh centuries, when Jerusalem was under the rule of the Byzantine Empire. (Image credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority) Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a rare 1,300-year-old lead medallion decorated on both sides with the image of a seven-branched…

Mansoor Hussain Laghari praying in the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (Photo: Social media) An American Muslim born in Pakistan has relayed his experience of being expelled from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for wearing a yellow pin on his lapel in support of the hostages.  Mansoor Hussain Laghari describes…

JERUSALEM (RNS) — After two years of little celebration due to the Israel-Hamas war, holiday festivities are slowly coming back to the Holy Land. But tourism remains limited. The post Christmas, Hanukkah festivities slowly return to Holy Land amid shaky ceasefire appeared first on RNS...Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40-signature debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, Dec. 8, 2025. (Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague announced on Monday that its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former…

A clay lamp from the Hasmonean period found at Nebi Samuel north of Jerusalem, in a discovery made public on December 15, 2025. (Photo: COGAT) A rare clay Hasmonean period oil lamp from the Second Temple era was discovered outside Jerusalem, Israel's Civil Administration’s Archaeological Unit revealed on Sunday, the…

Jerusalem Post / Middle East Turkey not invited to Gaza peacekeeping force talks in Qatar, source tells 'Post' “The Turks are still pressing the US administration to be involved. They haven't given up,” one regional diplomat told The Jerusalem Post. Turkish charities operating in the southern Gaza Strip, October 23,…

RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, Dec 15 - The Israeli military shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian during a raid on the town of Tuqu' on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deadly incident in a recent surge of violence in the ‍Israeli-occupied ​West Bank. The boy was shot after Israeli military forces…

PRETORIA - International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) leader Michael Sandlana is expected back at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Monday. The 64-year-old faces corruption and money laundering charges. He is accused of bribing High Court judge Portia Phahlane to rule in his favour in civil matters. Sandlana leads the…

Jerusalem  —  In another major expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli cabinet approved on Thursday the legalization and establishment of numerous settler outposts, according to an Israeli source familiar with the matter. The decision authorizes 19 outposts across the West Bank, including two that were…

By MIRIAM SELA-EITAM, JAMES GENN DECEMBER 14, 2025 11:38 Updated: DECEMBER 14, 2025 20:36 President Isaac Herzog slammed the mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.  “At these very moments, our sisters and brothers in Sydney, Australia, have been attacked by vile terrorists…