Jerusalem
Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs says the current riots are a direct result of the Palestinian leadership’s declaration that “the Al-Aqsa is in danger,” which has served as a battle cry against the Jews for the past 100 years.
This is the first time rockets have been launched towards Jerusalem from Gaza since “Operation Protective Edge” in the summer of 2014.
Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat told U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that the Jewish state is handling events “from a position of sovereignty and responsibility, regardless of Palestinian provocations.”
Sure to ruffle a few feathers, “Islam, Jews and the Temple Mount” lays out how the Muslim narrative about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount has been distorted.
A brief summary of the facts and chronology of the legal dispute over the Jerusalem neighborhood.
Thirteen officers and some 200 rioters were reportedly wounded in the clashes • A mob attempts to lynch a Jewish motorist near the Old City.
The Holy City beat out Tel Aviv in 2020 as having the highest number of hotels in the country and was also most popular with visitors from abroad.
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party calls to “raise the level of confrontation in the coming days” and urges protesters to gather on Jerusalem Day for a “day of action.”
Israel will continue to uphold freedom of worship for all faiths but will not tolerate violence, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a special Cabinet meeting to mark Jerusalem Day.
Ahead of Jerusalem Day and following two days of violence in which nearly 20 officers and 300 rioters suffered injuries, Israeli Police commissioner orders police numbers boosted in the capital.
“Jerusalem’s future is also the future of the State of Israel. It is here, in the city that comprises the full range of Israel’s demography,” says Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
The lamp, discovered in the foundations of an ancient building, is believed to have been a ritual offering • Only a few objects of this kind have ever been found, and never before in Jerusalem, say researchers.
