Czech President Milos Zeman, pictured July 2018, released a joint statement with other Czech political leaders saying the opening of a “Czech House” in Jerusalem would be “the first step in the plan to move the Czech embassy” there Michal Cizek (AFP/File) Czech President Milos Zeman reiterated his promise to open his country’s embassy to Jerusalem…
Members of a UK Strictly Orthodox community, who were not immunised, also reported to have caught the disease while visiting Israel. The measles-rubella vaccine has been rejected by some parents (Photo: Getty Images) A major outbreak of measles in Israel has caused one death and over a thousand cases in the last eight months, officials have…
Dozens of Israeli settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday, according to a Palestinian official. Dozens of Israeli settlers forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday, according to a Palestinian official. “More than 150 Jewish settlers stormed the holy compound through the Al-Mugharbah gate,”…
Saudi Arabia has reportedly given a private guarantee to its Arab allies that it will not endorse a US’ Mideast peace plan that doesn’t address Jerusalem’s status or Palestinian refugees’ right to return. According to Haaretz, citing two senior diplomats, Saudi King Salman told the Trump administration that Riyadh wouldn’t support its plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace if…
An artist’s depiction of the Jewish Temple (video screenshot) Messiah-mania has reached a fever pitch in Israel, as one prominent rabbi says the prophesied redeemer was born a week ago, while a group promoting the rebuilding of the Temple released a new TV spot saying, “The time has arrived.” Meanwhile, a group of Muslims clashed…
Warning of ‘multiple cracks’ after boulder falls, Zachi Dvira says people should not be allowed near holy site — neither in the mainstream prayer pavilion nor at Robinson’s Arch. View of the site where a large chunk of stone dislodged from the Western Wall in Jerusalem at the mixed-gender prayer section on July 23, 2016….
Tisha Be’av in eyes of Jordanian and PA officials and media: “Jews storm Al-Aqsa in ‘central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem.” >15 Jews arrested at Temple Mount, as record numbers visit for Tisha B’Av > In official letter, Jordan objects to Jewish worship on Temple Mount Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount on July…
62 lawmakers vote in favor of the bill after a stormy debate ■ Arab lawmakers tossed out after they tear bill in protest, call it ‘apartheid law.” Coalition members standing together after the nation-state bill passed on July 19, 2018.Olivier Fitoussi U.S. Jewish leader ‘disappointed’ after fighting Israeli government over nation-state bill Don’t soften it,…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the latest leader to officially put the Western Wall on his itinerary on Friday. > An historic day at the Western Wall > Vice President Mike Pence ‘inspired’ after praying at Western Wall For world leaders, visiting the Kotel (Western Wall) is becoming the new normal. That, at least, is…
(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Francis, center, flanked by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, and Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, reads his message outside the St. Nicholas Basilica on the occasion of a daylong prayer for peace in the Middle East in Bari, southern Italy, Saturday, July 7,…