Jerusalem, Israel Travel News

Loren Minsky speaks to Yossi Vashady, 55, owner of the hugely popular Shalom Felafel chain spread around the Jerusalem area.

"I don't know of anybody who was blessed with such a heavenly voice that emits a pure prayer and a moving song," President Peres tells visiting Streisand.

Jerusalem and its holy sites are a top priority for the Palestinian Authority cabinet, newly appointed Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said Sunday while visiting the city.

The two main points revolve around the Church's requests to build two centers in Israel: a church in a section of the Caesaria National Park where a site dedicated to Paul once stood, and the use of a plot on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.

The comedy portion of NXNE is bigger than ever, and that's reflected in the film fest, too.

Barbra Streisand touches down in Israel next week, and the country is in a tizzy for the arrival of Babs.

An unofficial freeze in housing starts in eastern Jerusalem is "a temporary hiatus," Yisrael Beiteinu party head Avigdor Lieberman told an Israeli newspaper.

The idea is the brainchild of Israeli educator Akiva Gersh. The day is scheduled to coincide with the first of the month of Tammuz and was prompted by what he terms the "ugly" incident during this past month's Women of the Wall gathering at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

By Andrew Twiddy - Parksville Qualicum Beach News Published: June 06, 2013 9:00 AM Updated: June 06, 2013 9:57 AM I recently had the privilege of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem - the heartbeat of world faiths, and city of richly colourful co-existence in a land of deep contrasts and challenging paradoxes.

Your chance to visit the holy land is on offer with visits to Christian, Jewish and Muslim places of worship.

A visiting delegation of B'nai Brith Canada visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday.

Rabbi Barnea Selevan, an Old City expert and a veteran tour guide in Jerusalem, is excited about a series of archaeological digs in the vicinity of the Western Wall that are peeling back layers of history and illustrating historical events at the center of the Jewish universe.

In Saudi Arabia, the public practice of any religion other than Islam is prohibited, and the government enforced restrictions on religious freedom.