Jerusalem News

Police arrested two Border Policemen on Tuesday evening on suspicion of beating an Arab East Jerusalem resident in a cemetery close to the capital's Old City.

One of the largest technology companies in the world is keeping its Jerusalem factory open on Saturdays, for now, despite violent protests by ultra-Othodox Jews who say it violates the Jewish Sabbath.

Jerusalemites opposing the imminent closing of their beloved neighborhood pool recently stepped up their efforts to save the German Colony landmark, hiring a lawyer and collecting some NIS 22,000 in donations.

Two Jerusalem residents, one a former Hadassah hospital employee, were arrested for allegedly facilitating organ donation deals.

Two Jerusalem residents, one a former Hadassah hospital employee, were arrested for allegedly facilitating organ donation deals.

FOLK ARCANA: Everyone knows John Denver's classic song about West Virginia, yet most don't know that Denver had never been there when they wrote the song.

The divide over Jerusalem was as clear as the busy street that divided protesters in Denver Tuesday night, as about two dozen people gathered on each side of Iliff Avenue.

Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday, after the district court denied the residents' appeal to remain on the premises.

EAST JERUSALEM, Oct 27 - Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating non-violent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community.

With the infrastructure nearly complete for the Jerusalem light rail system, the Knesset Finance Committee has given a green light for Citypass, its operator, to start the next stage for the much anticipated and much maligned project.

The postcard from the Home Front Command that recently arrived in my mailbox looks like an ad from the Ministry of Tourism.

Ever since I first started thinking about aliya, I've been wishing I'd been born a few years earlier.

It's a dilemma for mainstream Israelis: How to resist capitulating to Arab violence on the Temple Mount - driven by irrational fears of Zionist plots against it - while not encouraging marginal Jewish groups who feverishly yearn to make the Arabs' worst nightmares come true? A view of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Some young Sderot residents are about to give Jerusalemites a dramatic peek into what life is really like in the beleaguered city.

TENS OF thousands of Jerusalemites have probably never heard of Tel Aviv-based business tycoon Alfred Akirov, the man who built and owns the Alrov Mamilla Mall.

In a Jerusalem Post article "In the land of miracles, let's get real" , Gershon Baskin describes the Salaam Fayad plan as "one of the most positive and optimistic developments of recent times". However, a reading of Fayad's plan, entitled "Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State: Program of the Thirteenth Government - August 2009" would seem ...

Khaled Amayreh Recent Israeli police violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque confirms that Israel's leaders condone attempts by Jewish fanatics to destroy the second holiest Islamic shrine Al-Aqsa Mosque esplanade witnessed yet another episode of violence on Sunday, 27 September, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank, when a group of Jewish religious fanatics ...

Even with the U.S. unemployment rate flirting with double digits, there seems to be only mild interest in seasonal work at Ohio Valley Mall.

Israel isn't spoiled for friends in the non-Jewish world, not even among the Christian mainstream.

Ra'ed Salah is mobilising opposition to the undermining of the Islamic presence in the city.