Ryan Jones Israel might have just scored European Union support for finally allowing Jews the right to pray atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest site in the world for Jews and many Christians. Whether or not it was her intent, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on Friday issued a call for religious freedom in Jerusalem that by definition must also include Jewish access to the Temple Mount.
MK Edelstein says preventing MKs from visiting the Temple Mount is a “very grave” matter. By Gil Ronen Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein stated Wednesday that the present state of affairs, in which MKs are prevented from visiting the Temple Mount, is a “very grave” matter, which he hopes will be solved in a year’s time. In a Facebook post devoted to Jerusalem Day, Edelstein wrote: “In the last few weeks, the rights of prayer at the Kotel, the Remainder of our Temple, as well as the right of Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount and pray there, have…
By Aryeh Savir Tazpit News Agency Photo credit: Aryeh Savir/ Tazpit News Agency Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held the weekly government meeting at Mount Herzl on Sunday in honor of Jerusalem Day which is to be celebrated on Wednesday (May 8). Israel will celebrate the 46th anniversary of the unification of its capital. Netanyahu stated during the special session that the liberation of Jerusalem was a part of Theodor Herzl’s vision for the Jewish State, adding that Jerusalem provides “A connection to our glorious and sublime history, and also gives us a window to the future, which won’t be…
Does the so-called “Gabriel Stone” really claim a messiah’s resurrection before Jesus’ time? A scholar said so in 2008. By Daniel Estrin of Associated Press JERUSALEM — An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means. The so-called Gabriel Stone, a 3-foot-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as the first century BC,…
Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By STEVEN ERLANGER A Palestinian man walked past ultra-Orthodox Jews as they prayed in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem last year. Unesco experts will inspect cultural heritage sites in mid-May. Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to renewed involvement by Unesco, the United Nations cultural agency, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The agreement was a small but significant breakthrough in the often highly politicized workings of the agency.
Obama at the White House (Photo: Reuters) US president to ride around capital in moving fortress; 5,000 policemen to secure his every move Yitzhak Benhorin WASHINGTON - United States President Barack Obama 's security team is taking no chances: During the presidential visit in Israel which begins next Wednesday, the president will ride around Jerusalem in The Beast, the aptly named tank-turned-car, a rolling fortress. Obama's motorcade will include two such vehicles – each costing $300,000 – driving around between a huge entourage of uniformed and undercover security men. Though the American people have a historical affinity to seeing their…
By SHARON UDASIN AND MELANIE LIDMAN Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post Hardly a plague – Jerusalem chef insists insect-based dishes delicious, popular and excellent source of protein. A new group of locusts crossed the border from the Sinai region on Sunday, ending up in the area of Moshav Be’er Malka, in the Ramat Hanegev region, the Agriculture Ministry reported. After entering Israel, the insects split up and continued their flight, with one faction heading toward Ashalim and another toward Ofakim, the ministry said. Once these swarms land on the ground, ministry workers will map out their locations in…
Officials in Sudan say they have captured an electronically-tagged vulture suspected of being dispatched by Israel on a spying mission. Photo: PA By Robert Tait in Jerusalem The avian discovery was made in Kereinek, a town in the Darfur region of western Sudan, Israeli media have reported. Sudanese officials are said to have concluded that the bird was a secret agent after discovering it was fitted with GPS and solar-powered equipment capable of broadcasting images via satellite, according to Haaretz newspaper, which cited an Egyptian website, El Balad. The vulture also had a tag attached to its leg with "Israel…
Israel seems to have sold Jerusalem to the Vatican. Giulio Meotti An historic agreement has been drafted between Israel and the Vatican. The Israeli authorities have granted the Pope an official seat in the room where the Last Supper is believed to have taken place, on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and where David and Solomon, Jewish kings of Judea, are considered by some researchers, to also be buried. It is the culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain religious stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have broken bread and drunk wine with his…
Jerusalem of Gold became Jerusalem of White overnight, treating local residents to a thick blanket of snow measuring well over 12 inches in many places. Schools and public transportation were cancelled, and the streets of the Holy City rang with the gleeful cries of thousands of children, and not a few adults who found they are still very much children at heart. Snow also covered numerous other towns across Israel. Most of northern Israel experienced heavy snow, and even higher peaks in the Negev desert, such as the small town of Mitzpe Ramon, woke to a winter wonderland. Speaking of…
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