The Moslem Waqf is now beginning to take control not only over the Temple Mount, but also over areas adjacent to it. So says Nadav Shragai, author of a book on the topic of the struggle over the Mount. Shragai told Arutz-7 yesterday that the Muslims are expanding the cemetery outside the eastern wall of […]

The Knesset Interior Committee met today to discuss the destruction of gravestones, the dumping of garbage and the building of illegal Arab structures upon Jewish graves on Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives). Arutz 7s Haggai Seri-Levi reports that the Interior Committee heard reports from representatives of the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Service), Jerusalem municipality […]

Even as work continues on a concrete wall dividing Jerusalem, tireless efforts continue to build a “live Jewish wall” to “secure the city’s unity.” The reference is to budding Jewish neighborhoods in areas of the capital that are currently populated by Arabs, but are in reality on Jewish-owned land. Organizations such as Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim […]

Through clandestine means, the Committee for the Renewal of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem’s Shiloach neighborhood purchased a six-and-a-half floor building located among the homes of Shiloach, predominantly an Arab-populated area. Through clandestine means, the Committee for the Renewal of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem’s Shiloach neighborhood (also known as the Yemenite Village) purchased a […]

Gilo is a sprawling neighborhood in southern Jerusalem purchased by Jews before World War II. Most of Gilo’s residents are professionals employed in the fields of health, education and services. A few are business people. The neighborhood’s rabbis teach in well-known Torah instutions in the city. Its residents were looking forward to Wednesday June 19, […]

The Temple Mount and the Western Wall saw several Heaven-entreating events yesterday and last night, as the People of Israel continue to manifest the connection between their ages-old faith and the current political climate. The Temple Mount and the Western Wall saw several Heaven-entreating events yesterday and last night, as the People of Israel continue […]

Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the Temple Mount, the Western Wall Plaza and the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem – continues to flourish, some 2,800 years after its founding. Members of the Elad Association, which has settled the area with 26 Jewish families in […]

Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the Temple Mount, the Western Wall Plaza and the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem – continues to flourish, some 2,750 years after its founding. Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the […]

A senior officer in the Jerusalem Police Department reports that ever since the opening of the Temple Mount to Jews four months ago, some 10,000 people have visited the holy site – including 4,000 who have done so according to Halakhic [Jewish legal] guidelines. Kol Rina News Agency reports that before September 2000, when the […]

JERUSALEM — The Bible tells of earthquakes splitting open the hills of this holy city with apocalyptic fury, adding to the mayhem of battles and punctuating Jesus’ crucifixion. Now, a geological survey says the heart of biblical narrative — Jerusalem’s walled Old City — would be among the worst hit parts of the city in […]