Jerusalem

A new crossing between northern Jerusalem and the West Bank will be opened to ease the traffic at the Qalandiyah checkpoint, Israel Police and the army's Civil Administration announced Monday. The new crossing is located in the East Jerusalem ...

The calm had been previously shattered by an April 18 bus bombing, in which a Palestinian resident of Bethlehem blew himself up in Jerusalem, injuring 20 people and killing himself. Israel said the attacker was a Hamas member; while the terror group ...

It should have come as no surprise when UNESCO voted to remove the designation of “Temple Mount” in Jerusalem from Temple Mount and of “Western Wall” from the Western Wall. The UN now recognizes these holiest Jewish sites as Muslim, officially ...

A 60-year-old Orthodox Jewish man attacked Monday night in Jerusalem by an 18-year-old Arab from the Palestinian Authority is slowly improving at Shaare Zedek Medical Center. He ran towards the Lion's Gate to seek help from the security force there ...

A Jewish man was stabbed in his upper back outside the Lions' Gate at the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday night. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter. The man is a 60 year old ultra- Orthodox yeshiva student. Paramedics gave the ...

It wasn't the first time a tightrope walker toed a line in Jerusalem's Old City. The last time was in 1987, when Phillippe Petit, whose Twin Tower act was chronicled in the 2015 film “The Walk,” walked a slackline pulled taut between buildings situated ...