Jerusalem

Middle East 11/03/21, 15:15

A letter calling for President Joe Biden not to reopen the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has gathered the support of up to 200 Republican members of Congress. “We write today to express our strong opposition to your administration’s proposal to reopen the U.S. consulate general in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem, that ...

Middle East 10/10/21, 02:40

Archaeologists in Israel have recently unearthed a 2,700 years old private toilet that used to be fancy back in its heyday. The ancient toilet cubicle was part of an excavation of a former royal mansion in Jerusalem that overlooks the City of David archaeological site and the Temple Mount, CNN reported ...

Inspired Stories 06/09/21, 16:27

Recent footage shows cars being swallowed into a sinkhole in Jerusalem June 7. A giant sinkhole appeared near Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, swallowing three cars and a few trees. Luckily nobody was injured, Israel Police confirmed. According to local reports, a special rescue crew searched for people who may have ...

Middle East 09/11/20, 17:41

Less than a month after the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates was signed, another historic agreement was added between Israel and Bahrain. The Trump administration once again mediated between the two countries to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion. As President Trump announced in a press release on ...

World 08/11/19, 06:24

Israel police and Palestinians clashed at a flashpoint at Jerusalem's holy site on Sunday, Aug. 11, as overlapping Jewish and Muslim holy days led to tensions there, an AFP journalist reported. Palestinian medics said at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmishes with police at the site, which ...

World 05/21/19, 10:42

Bahrain on Tuesday defended its decision to host a White House-engineered conference to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, saying its only objective is to support the "brotherly Palestinian people." The Palestinian Authority has rejected the economic conference planned for next month, which is part of the rollout of the White House's long-awaited ...

World 05/03/19, 03:07

For 20 years, Hala Kashour has lived with her husband in what she called "paradise," a bucolic meadow that rolls through a Palestinian neighborhood of east Jerusalem. The coveted pasture, which Israel calls the "Peace Forest," lies in the crosshairs of a long-simmering conflict between the city government and its Palestinian ...

World 04/21/19, 09:46

Jewish people also flock to Jerusalem to celebrate weeklong Passover holiday, which coincides this year with Easter

World 04/19/19, 10:56

Pilgrims follow the path of Jesus to Calvary

Politics 03/27/19, 20:00

State Department tells VOA Persian it will update US government maps to reflect president's March 25 recognition of Israel's sovereignty over Golan region it captured from Syria in 1967

Politics 03/21/19, 09:36

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was set to make an unprecedented visit Thursday to Jerusalem's Western Wall with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making him the highest-level American official to tour the holy site with Israel's leader. The planned visit was the latest show of support for Israel's control of ...

World 03/12/19, 17:50

The site, expected to reopen Wednesday, was closed after a firebomb was thrown at a police station on the compound

World 03/10/19, 03:10

Netanyahu finds common ground with Orban and others, but history often gets in the way

World 03/09/19, 08:45

Australia expects farming and education boom with free trade with neighboring Indonesia

Politics 03/03/19, 19:55

The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the U.S. Embassy to Israel. For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians. Now, that outreach will be handled by a ...

World 01/16/19, 20:43

White House, which has kept details of plan under wraps, said its release could still be months away while dismissing report

World 01/16/19, 10:08

A harsh weather front brought sandstorms, hail and rain to parts of the Middle East, with visibility down in the Egyptian capital as an orange cloud of dust blocked out the sky and pedestrians covered their faces from the wind gusts

World 01/03/19, 05:42

Two years ago, Amona’s 300 settlers were removed after the Supreme Court ruled it had been built illegally

America 01/01/19, 21:02

Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move its embassy there; Guatemala followed suit

World 12/31/18, 07:47

Issam Akel was accused of attempting to sell a property in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem without the permission of his business partners or Palestinian authorities