Jerusalem District

Olmert quizzed for 10th time in graft probes (AFP)

AFP/POOL/File – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on November 9, 2008. … JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli police questioned interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday for the 10th time...

Shabbat Shalom

The round-the-clock news updates of IsraelNationalNews.com discontinue at this time in honor of the Sabbath. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 16:05 (Friday). The updates will resume Saturday night, several hours following the...

Activists Open Spiritual Center in Shdema

Land of Israel activists opened a Jewish spiritual and cultural center on Friday as part of an ongoing effort to create a strong Jewish presence at Shdema, south of Jerusalem. The center was inaugurated with festivities under...

A Tale of Two Ceremonies--One talks peace, one talks terror.

A Tale of Two Ceremonies By P. David HornikFrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, November 14, 2008 At the special Knesset session on Monday marking thirteen years since Yitzhak Rabin’s death, outgoing Israeli prime minister Ehud...

Six Wanted Terrorists Arrested

Soldiers rounded up six wanted terrorists in Judea and Samaria overnight, three in the Jenin area in central Samaria and three in Bethlehem and neighboring villages, south of Jerusalem. All of the suspects are being questioned...

Golden earring Discovered In Archaeological Excavations

Northweatern Wall plaza in Jerusalem, place where valuable archaelogical findings from the time of kings Manasseh and Josiah are being made. According to the excavation director, archaeologist Shlomit Wexler-Bdolah of the IAA,...

Priests fighting in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

There has always been a lot of tension between the different christian groups running the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, but a few days ago a large fist fight broke out between the Greek Orthodox and the Armenian...

The choice for Obama lies on the road to Jerusalem

13-Nov-2008

The Middle East poses an existential choice for the president-elect. Does he want to patch things up? Or does he want to redraw the strategic map of the region and thereby set a new direction for America's role in the world,...

Jerusalem’s politics: Money, faith and votes

A secular entrepreneur is elected to run the holy cityTHE hollowness of Israel’s rhetoric about “united Jerusalem” is never starker than on local election day, when the city’s 537,000 adults, together with the rest of Israel,...

2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM - A luxurious gold, pearl and emerald earring provides a new visual clue about the life of the elite in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. And its discovery was a true eureka moment for excavators. The piece was found...

               

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