Nighttime clashes in East Jerusalem flare Palestine-Israel tensions

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Saturday drawing retaliatory air strikes, the Israeli military said, after nightly Ramzan clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police resumed in Jerusalem.

Clashes on Gaza border as Ramzan violence flares in Jerusalem 

Over 100 Palestinians were wounded as protesters clashed with Israeli security forces in east Jerusalem in overnight development. Clashes erupted on Thursday night.

Jerusalem: More than 100 injured as Palestinians clash with Israeli police

Crosses etched in mysterious abundance across the walls of Christianity's most sacred church were long assumed to be graffiti, but they may be the work of mediaeval masons paid to carve them by pilgrims, research suggests.

Graffiti or homage? Hi-tech imaging sheds light on Holy Sepulchre wall crosses

Pope leads Palm Sunday service in Vatican, mass takes place in Jerusalem

Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world. Russian Foreign Ministry said that Jerusalem should become the capital of two independent countries Israel and Palestine and it should also be open to the 3 faiths.

Russia On Jerusalem: City should become the capital of Israel and Palestine

In pictures: Jerusalem experiences rare snowfall

Snow covered Jerusalem holy sites on Thursday morning (February 18) after a storm and freezing temperatures hit the region. Onlookers gathered to watch as snow blanketed the golden Dome of the Rock and the adjacent Western Wall.

Jerusalem’s Old City turns white with snow

Israel's ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, have been at the centre of the country's struggles to control the spread of coronavirus. On Tuesday night Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting coronavirus lockdown restrictions clashed with police officers in Jerusalem.

Hundreds of hardline Haredim protest coronavirus enforcement in Jerusalem

As the trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resumed in Jerusalem, The PM said that not delaying his trial to after the elections would amount to election interference. Netanyahu once again denied the corruption charges against him and calls them a witch hunt.

Israeli PM Netanyahu denies corruption charges, calls it a witch hunt

Peering through enclosure windows, they were a popular source of entertainment at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. But the human visitors haven't been around for a month, since the start of a national coronavirus lockdown in Israel, and the animals miss staring at them, zookeepers say.

Coronavirus lockdown a lonely time for Jerusalem zoo animals

For some survivors of the Holocaust, the vow of "never forget" takes on a special meaning when they have only faded memories, or none at all, of parents they lost as young children. Leah Nebenzahl was a baby when her parents, Pipha and Zvi Herschman, were murdered in Nazi-occupied Poland. The stories and photos of Jewish youngsters, many of them orphans like Leah who were placed in seven children's homes for survivors in Europe after the war, are part of a new online exhibition - "My Lost Childhood" - by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

For one survivor, Holocaust memories exist only in faded photos

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, left Jerusalem on Thursday (December 24) for the West Bank town of Bethlehem to start muted Christmas festivities.

Bethlehem's Christmas in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Where Jesus walked: Archaeologists recreate flooring of ancient Jewish temple

Customers are lining up at a Jerusalem bakery-cafe for the "Abu Dhabi" doughnut, a date-flavoured confectionery inspired by Israel's new relations with the United Arab Emirates.

"Abu Dhabi" doughnut a Hanukkah hit in Israel

As Mike Pompeo became the first US diplomat to visit a West Bank settlement, watchdog reports suggest that Israel is moving ahead with settlement plans in East Jerusalem. On this week's The West Asia Post, Ghadi Francis tells you how PM Netanyahu's new settlement plans could test his ties with a Biden White House. For more such stories, keep watching the West Asia post with Ghadi Francis every Friday at 8:30 PM IST, only on WION.

The West Asia Post | Episode 8 | Your Window to West Asia

EU diplomats were taunted by right-wing Israeli protesters on Monday during a visit to a sensitive east Jerusalem area where the Jewish state plans to build a new settler neighbourhood.

Israel protesters taunt EU envoys in sensitive east Jerusalem area

Israel is moving forward on the construction of hundreds of new homes for Jewish residents in sensitive East Jerusalem.

Israel moves ahead with controversial illegal settler housing plan in Jerusalem

Biden criticized as Israel moves ahead with controversial project in Jerusalem

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t mince his words at this month’s opening of parliament. In his first assertion of a claim to a lost non-Turkic part of the Ottoman Empire, Mr Erdogan declared that Jerusalem is Turkish.

The Battle for Jerusalem: Turkey’s Erdogan stakes his claim

Equipped with long sticks, and a sanitizing spray gun, a team of cleaners on Wednesday (September 16) gouged out written prayers that visitors to Judaism's Western Wall in Jerusalem traditionally cram into its crevices.

Notes to God removed from Jerusalem's Western Wall

Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem over his alleged corruption and the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Protests in Israel over COVID crisis: Unemployment spikes to over 20%

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised President Donald Trump's foreign policy record in a Republican National Convention speech on Tuesday that Democrats criticized as a breach of protocol and perhaps the law.

Pompeo addresses RNC for Trump from Jerusalem, sparks criticism

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