Jerusalem

Connecting with Jerusalem: the parashah for Second Day Yom Tov

Three times a year – on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Booths – all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place that God will choose Deuteronomy 16:16)

By Rabbanit Joanne Greenaway

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Children from the Toldot Aharon Talmud Torah march through the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem ahead of Shavuot (photo: Flash90)

Crowds celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 14, 2026 (Flash90)

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Israeli police arrest 13 as violence taints Jerusalem Day celebrations

By Melanie Swan

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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa meets senior figures from the Israel Police on March 29, 2026 (Israel Police)

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Netanyahu gives Latin Patriarch ‘full and immediate access’ to Holy Sepulchre after Palm Sunday ban row

By Jacob Jaffa

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Labour MP suggests Israel closed Al-Aqsa to ‘limit freedom of worship’ – as missile lands metres away from mosque

By Jane Prinsley

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Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologist Ari Levi holds a 2000-year-old measuring table found at the Pilgrimage Road at the City of David, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, on January 6, 2020 (Flash90)

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‘Pilgrim’s Path’ to Temple Mount opened to pedestrians for the first time in nearly two millennia

By Jacob Jaffa

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Charedi men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of toddlers who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026 (Flash90)

Israel

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

By Jacob Jaffa

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Charedi Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of toddlers who died earlier in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 19, 2026 (Flash90)

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Police clash with Charedi rioters over autopsies following baby deaths at ‘unlicensed’ nursery

By Jacob Jaffa

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Fifty-five children injured and two babies killed after ‘gas leak’ at Jerusalem nursery

Medics reported to have been running in and out of the building, carrying multiple babies and young children at a time

By JC Reporter

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January 19, 2026 12:14

Rescue and security forces at the scene where toddlers were taken ill in Jerusalem (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Charedi teen killed in bus ramming during Jerusalem anti-enlistment protest

Charedi politicians claimed that the death of Yosef Eisentahl, 14, was the result of anti-Orthodox ‘incitement’

By Jacob Jaffa

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January 7, 2026 10:38

Emergency services at the scene of a bus ramming that killed a Charedi teen and left three others injured during an anti-enlistment protest in Jerusalem on January 6, 2025 (Flash90)

Netanyahu backs Ben-Gvir’s push for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount

Israel’s national security minister has long maintained that prayer, including full prostration, should be allowed at the site, and has even suggested the construction of a synagogue there

By Jacob Jaffa

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January 6, 2026 13:46

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen after a visit at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during Tishah b’Av, on August 3, 2025 (Flash90)

Police injured in Jerusalem Charedi riots

Confrontations between officers and strictly-Orthodox demonstrators turned violent over the attempted arrests of several draft dodgers

By Jacob Jaffa

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December 19, 2025 14:14

Charedi men clash with police during a protest following the issuance of a parking ticket on Bar-Ilan Road in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2025 (Flash90)

By Maureen Lipman

As I walked past the Kibbutz Be’eri blast holes, I wished Dawn French had been alongside me

I wish all the sneering, B-list deniers had seen the bomb damage first hand

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December 9, 2025 11:27

A home in Kibbutz Beeri damaged during the October 7, 2023 attack (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

2,000-year-old Jerusalem city wall discovered in grounds of museum

The newly uncovered section of wall is over 40 metres in length

By JC Reporter

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December 8, 2025 15:51

A section of the Hasmonean Wall unearthed in the grounds of the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem (Photo: Gabriel Volcovich)

Trump reiterates US position that Jerusalem is ‘Israel’s rightful capital’

The US President reflected on the eighth anniversary of recognising Jerusalem as the capital

By JC Reporter

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December 8, 2025 12:03

US President Donald Trump visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City in 2017 (Photo: Getty)

Thousands of Charedim block roads in Jerusalem anti-draft protests

Demonstrators prayed en masse at the entrance to the city, while some pelted reporters covering the protest with plastic bottles and sticks.

By Jacob Jaffa

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October 30, 2025 13:57

Thousands of ultra orthodox Jews attend the 'million man' protest against IDF conscription, in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025 (Flash90)

‘I had to get her out of there’ says hero cab driver who saved elderly woman from Jerusalem terror attack

Igal Kol was videoed helping his 85-year-old passenger escape gunfire during Monday’s attack in Jerusalem

By Amelie Botbol

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September 10, 2025 18:04

Igal Kol, who rescued the 85-year-old passenger of his taxi during a terror attack in Jerusalem on Monday, stands near his taxi - credit: Igal Kol

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Jerusalem

Connecting with Jerusalem: the parashah for Second Day Yom Tov

Israeli police arrest 13 as violence taints Jerusalem Day celebrations

Netanyahu gives Latin Patriarch ‘full and immediate access’ to Holy Sepulchre after Palm Sunday ban row

Labour MP suggests Israel closed Al-Aqsa to ‘limit freedom of worship’ – as missile lands metres away from mosque

‘Pilgrim’s Path’ to Temple Mount opened to pedestrians for the first time in nearly two millennia

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

Police clash with Charedi rioters over autopsies following baby deaths at ‘unlicensed’ nursery

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