Jerusalem, Israel Travel News

Standing over the 1948 Armistice Line, the Jewish Quarter and the city with Jewish residence continuously since the times of King David and the Holy Western Wall is considered Occupied Palestine by the European Union.

Milwaukee Public Museum artist Craig Yanek works on a replica of the entrance to Cave 4 in Qumran, on the Dead Sea, one of the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

Not one country in the world recognizes our capital, Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel.

On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected area nestled at the foot of the southern walls of Jerusalem's Old City.

PORT CHESTER - Up on a forklift, in a helmet and vest, Tova Snyder looks more construction worker than artist.

"I've had groups come here to walk in Jesus's footsteps with no idea that this is the Jewish state," said our B&B host in northern Israel who also is a registered tour guide.

Iraq's Kurds threaten to boycott elections AP - Kurdish political leaders threatened Tuesday to boycott January's national elections unless Kurdish areas receive more seats in parliament, throwing into doubt the vote which could determine how quickly U.S. troops can go home.

WAM Abu Dhabi, 2nd Nov. 2009 --President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan affirmed today the UAE's support for the right of Palestinian people to establish their own independent state with Jerusalem as its capital in line with international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab peace initiative.

Something astonishing, even alarming, is taking place in the battle over the future of Jerusalem.

Israeli police reopened the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound to Muslim worshippers and tourists on Monday, a day after the latest clashes erupted in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint site.

Muslims rioted against Jews visiting the Temple Mount and a halachic ruling issued by the senior-most haredi rabbi forbade Jews to visit the holy site.

We were on our way to see how Jerusalem's buried past is being protected from the engines of progress - in this case, from a construction crew laying a sewage pipe - when the car phone rang.

Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch rejects claims that he forbade the Jewish Agency to hold a reception ceremony for new immigrants at the holy Jerusalem site for religious reasons.

Nine years ago, after Ariel Sharon, then a candidate for prime minister, decided to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, violent demonstrations erupted.

EAST JERUSALEM, Oct 11 - Clashes between Israeli security forces and protesting Palestinians have subsided as several hundred Muslims agreed to evacuate Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque following a deal brokered by the Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv Saturday.

Some 50 Palestinians and their supporters today protested against the fact that Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for Arabian believers, which is one of the holiest sites for Muslims.

This week, The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem is marking the 30th consecutive year in which Christians from all corners of the globe have ascended to Jerusalem to celebrate the biblical Feast of Tabernacles.

Tension remains high between Jews and Muslims at a disputed Jerusalem holy place after several days of unrest that have overshadowed a Jewish festival of pilgrimage.

Twice a week buses leave from the Gazans' Garden in Jaffa for Jerusalem: people go there in order to pray in the Al Aqsa Mosque.

The Israeli police were stymied by what one policeman called an unwritten but official agreement that the police will not enter the Al Aksa Mosque, without permission of the Waqf - the Muslim religious authorities.