Jerusalem Controversy

It’s the dance the world is talking about and after the Gardaí took on the Jerusalema challenge posed to them by the Swiss police, everyone is getting involved. Including 84-year-old Esther and Paddy, who took on the challenge after the many videos lifted their spirits during the week. The couple,…

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefly appeared in a Jerusalem courtroom Monday to respond formally to corruption charges just weeks before national elections in which he hopes to extend his 12-year rule. Netanyahu was indicted last year for fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in court on Monday to formally respond to corruption charges, as his trial enters an intensified phase six weeks before he faces re-election. Netanyahu, the first Israeli premier to be indicted in office, was charged last year over allegations that he accepted improper…

BEIJING — China appears to have stamped out its latest coronavirus outbreaks centered on the northeast, reporting no new cases of local infection in its latest daily report. The National Health Commission said Monday that 14 newly confirmed cases had been brought from outside the country but no new cases…

Updated / Saturday, 6 Feb 2021 00:41 The Late Late Show joined in the fun of the Jerusalema Challenge on Friday night. After the success of the dance video released by gardaí earlier this week, host Ryan Tubridy invited members of the frontline services to the Late Late studio and RTÉ…

In March, 56 years will have elapsed since Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel linked arms and marched as part of the civil rights protest from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. However, in those intervening years, relations between Blacks and Jews have become strained, and with the rise…

Author of the article: Reuters Zainah El-Haroun and Adel Abu Nimeh JERICHO — As a Palestinian living in Jerusalem, Ismail Daiq is used to negotiating the dividing lines between communities: the daily commute to his Jordan Valley date farm involves crossing a checkpoint on his way home. Now the coronavirus…

JERUSALEM, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel will begin "gradually" lifting COVID-19 lockdown restrictions next week. "We will start with a gradual opening as early as next week, but we will exit with caution," the prime minister told a press conference. He…

Updated / Tuesday, 2 Feb 2021 21:14 "We wanted to show our own culture and our own heritage and our own absolutely beautiful countryside" Screengrab: An Garda Síochána/Twitter One of the gardaí behind the Jerusalema Challenge video has said she and her colleagues want people to show off their best…

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