Tens of thousands of people are participating in the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March, which passes through Damascus Gate and the streets of the Old City's Muslim Quarter. Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson was attacked by right-wing youths while covering the event
A Border Police officer was moderately injured Tuesday in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, the police said. The officer, in his 30s, was stabbed in his upper body. The terrorist was eliminated. The attacker was apparently a tourist from Turkey. The attack took place on Sultan Suleiman St. near Herod's […]
For the first time, a public campaign has emerged within the ultra-Orthodox and national Haredi communities in Jerusalem against the harassment of Christian clergy and pilgrims. Ahrale Friedman, a resident of Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, hung signs throughout the Old City on the eve of the Passover holiday calling on the public to avoid […]
A tense and apprehensive atmosphere can be felt these days at Damascus Gate and in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City ahead of the Holy Month of Ramadan, which begins in early March. Already at our meeting at the stairs in Damascus Gate plaza, two Border Police officers hurried towards us. One of […]
Jerusalem residents are protesting a real estate deal for the last large open space in the Old City, which Ottoman-era documents show was intended to benefit the Armenian community