Around 50 protesters were arrested Tuesday night following clashes with police at a thousands-strong rally in Jerusalem (Israel) demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign

Israel Protests: Demonstrators unhappy with Netanyahu's economic policies

Due to coronavirus restrictions, Israel's gay community held limited pride rallies in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Sunday (June 28), a far cry from the usual large-scale marches.

Under health restrictions, Israel's gay community holds limited pride rallies

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound reopened to Muslim worshippers and visitors on Sunday (May 31) after a two-and-a-half month coronavirus closure, but authorities imposed some precautions as health officials warned of an uptick in local infections.

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque reopens after more than two months

Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque reopened to worshippers on Sunday after a two-and-a-half month coronavirus closure.

Jerusalem: 700 worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque for Dawn prayers

Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque reopens after more than two months

Israeli police officers shot a Palestinian in Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, as per the local media. The Palestinian was suspected of carrying a weapon, but was later found to have been unarmed, according to local media reports.

Palestinian shot dead in Jerusalem by Israeli police

Israel partly reopened nurseries and kindergartens on Sunday (May 10), increasing the number of children who have returned to daycare as part of efforts to revive the economy as coronavirus worries subside.

Preschoolers return as Israel further eases coronavirus curbs

Fire leapt from the masked performer's twirling baton as the festive Ramadan float drove through the back streets of East Jerusalem, with children cheering and parents watching from balconies.

With fire, light and music, bringing Ramadan to a fun-starved Jerusalem

Serge Bokobza's family did not want him to be buried anywhere but Jerusalem so when he died of coronavirus they transferred the body from France, despite the difficulties during a pandemic.

Even in the pandemic, Jews flown to Jerusalem for burial

Israeli couple Osnat Baron and Yaniv Jenger staged a sanitary wedding on Monday (April 27) in an attempt to have their special day while respecting the government's social distancing and hygiene guidelines to battle the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus an unwelcome guest as Israelis wed with close family and masks

Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the new coronavirus pandemic: enforced separation at a time when socializing is almost sacred.

Amid coronavirus, Muslims face Ramadan like never before

Amid a coronavirus lockdown which left Jerusalem's Old City streets empty, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III washed the feet of 12 of his clergymen, during a ritual to mark Holy Thursday (April 16).

Down-sized Washing of the Feet ceremony takes place amid coronavirus outbreak

The chief rabbi at the holy site of the Western Wall has requested the followers to not kiss the stones, as is the tradition. This move comes at the peak of coronavirus infections across the world.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, Jews urged not to kiss the Western Wall

An Israeli court Monday sentenced a firebrand Islamic cleric to 28 months in prison for incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site in 2017.

Israel sentences Islamic cleric to 28 months for inciting terror

At least two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank and 16 Israelis were hurt on Thursday in a surge of violence that erupted amid Palestinian anger at a US peace plan.

At least two Palestinians killed, 16 Israelis hurt in violence over Trump plan

The Israeli Army said it was the target of attack in the car ramming incident on Wednesday. "During the incident, a terrorist sped his car towards (Israeli) soldiers who marched adjacent to the First Station in Jerusalem as part of a military activity," the army statement said.

Soldiers target of attack in car ramming incident in Jerusalem: Israel Army

International Summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and several failed peace plans - those words sum up the story of the Israel-Palestine peace process. As many as three American Presidents have tried to broker peace, but all of them have failed.

Wion Edit: Why peace remains elusive in West Asia

Jerusalem's Old City saw a heated exchange between Israeli security and Emmanuel Macron when the French President was visiting the Church of Saint Anne. The building belongs to the French government and is considered French territory, within the premises of which Marcon was filmed admonishing security personnel for trying to follow him into the Church.

'Go outside, please': Macron scolds Israeli security personnel while on tour of the Church of Saint Anne

Israel hosted the World Holocaust Forum, which more than 40 world leaders & royals attended. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the monument which is located in a central Jerusalem park, fulfills the aspiration to life and victory of Leningrad siege's victims. Russian President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to Israel, Putin unveiled a Jerusalem monument commemorating the victims and defenders of Leningrad during the Nazi siege of World War Two.

WION Dispatch: Israel hosts World Holocaust Forum

Several Israeli school districts held impromptu tolerance classes on Sunday after the country's education minister, an Orthodox rabbi, angered LGBT campaigners by implying homosexuality was unnatural.

Israeli education minister Rafael Peretz implies homosexuality 'unnatural'

Israelis celebrate Hanukkah with candlelight and doughnuts

An ancient tomb in Jerusalem prized for its archaeological and religious importance was reopened for visits Thursday by France, which owns it after a dispute over access scuttled an earlier attempt.

France reopens disputed ancient tomb in Jerusalem

Israeli police have released the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem and a local Fatah official after arresting them and questioning them for hours, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

Israeli police release Palestinian officials

A massive, new underground necropolis is being built in Jerusalem to help overcome a looming shortage of gravesites for Jewish people in the holy city. The mile-long labyrinth, with 23,000 burial chambers lining the walls and ground, was tunnelled into the hillside beneath Jerusalem's main Jewish cemetery, Givat Shaul, which is quickly running out of space.

Underground necropolis to ease Jerusalem's grave shortage

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