Battle over the Western Wall: who defines holiness in Jerusalem?
PM Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a scheduled vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation. The vote would have advanced a bill to place the entire Western Wall plaza under the Chief Rabbinate and enforce Orthodox prayer customs throughout.
The mountain that carried Jerusalem’s fire to Babylon now flies the Israeli flag
The Israeli flag now flies from the summit of Mount Sartaba, raised there for the first time in history by Israel’s Ministry of Heritage. The flag is a deliberate, unmistakable statement that this land, the biblical heartland, belongs to the Jewish people.
First expansion since Six-Day War aligns with biblical vision of a growing Jerusalem
A recent development agreement signed between the state and the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council would, pending final approvals, establish a new Jewish community that constitutes the first expansion of Jerusalem since 1967.
Temple tradition meets modern reality: shoe rack approved on Mount
At the entrance to the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, shoes once lay in tangled heaps on the ground. The result was disorder, a tripping hazard, and a scene unbefitting the site where the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, once stood.
From the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount: Jerusalem’s pilgrimage road reopens
For the first time since the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, visitors can now walk the full length of the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, a street that once carried multitudes of Jews ascending from the Pool of Siloam toward the Holy Temple, during the Second Temple period.
Israel razes UNRWA compound in Jerusalem, citing years of Hamas collusion and tax evasion
As the demolition equipment reduced buildings to rubble, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stood watching, declaring it “an important day for sovereignty in Jerusalem.”
Church condemns Christian Zionism as “damaging ideology” that threatens Church unity
The institution that declared Jews collectively guilty of deicide, that forced Jews into ghettos, that presided over expulsions and forced conversions, now objects to Christians who read their Bibles and conclude that God’s covenant with Israel remains intact.
From Solomon’s Temple to scrap wood: sacred beams treated as refuse on Temple Mount
Wooden beams that once stood in Solomon’s Temple—timbers that witnessed the glory of the First Temple and survived its destruction—now lie exposed to the elements on the Temple Mount, covered only by a tarp and surrounded by garbage.
Mikveh from final days of the Second Temple discovered beneath Western Wall Plaza
The ancient ritual bath, sealed beneath a layer of ash and pottery from the destruction of 70 CE, emerged from the earth just days before the Tenth of Tevet—the fast day that marks the beginning of Jerusalem’s siege by the Babylonians.
“A thousand police will not extinguish it”: Hanukkah candle lit on the Temple Mount
Hanukkah commemorates the rejection of the enforced erasure of Jewish worship. A single candle lit on the Temple Mount asserts that this rejection is not a relic of the past. The