On a cloudless morning, I join historian Meiron for a tour of the Temple Mount. We enter the Old City through the Dung Gate and then arrive at the Western Wall plaza. When the Romans destroyed ...

The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall or the Kotel ... is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims ...

In another Temple Mount development, the chief rabbi of Safed ... and the hundreds of thousands of Jews who visit the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu on Wednesday told right-wing news site ...

Ramadan often presents a security challenge in Jerusalem, but this may be greater this year given the ongoing seven-front war and Operation Iron Wall in ... a war for the Temple Mount, the writer ...

Israeli police officers restrain Jewish activists protesting the Waqf control on the Temple Mount, December 7, 2023. In a letter sent to members of the US Senate on Monday, a group of Israeli ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...

Adjacent to the Temple Mount is the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site. Palestinians see eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City and Al-Aqsa, as the future capital of an independent ...

Israel Police on Wednesday announced that Jews will be forbidden to ascend the Temple Mount for a period of ten days - the last third of the month of Ramadan. In addition, the Temple Mount will ...

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As Jewish visits to Judaism’s holiest site increase, Rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, and Temple Mount scholar ...