Source: Time (JERUSALEM) — Israeli media are reporting that the world’s oldest man, Israel Kristal, who lived through both world wars and survived the Holocaust, has died a month short […]
Aug 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The Israeli government move to close Al Jazeera television network’s operations in the country is not surprising in itself, given that the government’s irritation with Al Jazeera for the past two decades of comprehensive, live coverage of events in Israel and the […]
Source: The Mail Israeli and American archaeologists say they have likely uncovered Julias near the banks of the Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Tiberias. First century Roman historian Flavius Josephus wrote that Julias was built around 30 AD on the ruins of Bethsaida, where the Gospel of John says Peter was born. Christians […]
Source: The Guardian By Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Israeli officials brand Turkish president’s comments ‘absurd’ as unrest continues at Jerusalem’s holy sites The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has intervened in the continuing […]
Source: Arab News: It took a diplomatic crisis with Jordan, following Sunday’s killing of two Jordanians by an Israeli Embassy guard in Amman, to finally shift Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on Al-Haram Al-Sharif — two weeks after his far-right government took the controversial decision to install metal detectors at […]
Source: Reuters Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel removed metal detectors from entrances to the Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday in favor of CCTV cameras, hoping […]
Source: BBC Israel and Jordan are involved in a diplomatic standoff after an Israeli guard reportedly shot dead a Jordanian attacker near the embassy in Amman. Jordanian police want to question the guard and have sealed off the area, but Israel says he has diplomatic immunity. A second Jordanian hit […]
Jul 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the fast-deteriorating situation in East Jerusalem as a result of Israel’s grave violations of the legal and historical status of the holy places there, especially of Al Aqsa Mosque. The site has been the […]
Source: Time BY Mohamed Daraghmeh and Karin Laub / AP Updated: Jul 22, 2017 5:10 PM ET (JERUSALEM) — Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land’s most contested shrine boiled […]
Palestinian president says he is freezing relations with Israel By Reuters – Jul 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians gather to perform Friday prayer at Ras El Amud neighbourhood after Israel restricted entrance of Palestinians under 50 years old to Al Aqsa Mosque Compound and assembled metal detector gates in […]
Source: CNN By Aaron David Miller CNN)Recent terror at the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem painfully demonstrates why the status quo between Israelis and Palestinians […]
Source: Associated Press By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) — Escalating Israeli-Palestinian tensions over the Holy Land’s most contested shrine boiled over into violence on Friday that killed […]
Reuters International JULY 21, 2017 Palestinians react following tear gas that was shot by Israeli forces after Friday prayer on a street outside Jerusalem’s Old city July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (reuters_tickers) JERUSALEM (Reuters) – When Muslim elders called for a “Day of Rage” on Friday to protest […]
Islamic leaders call for mass protests in response to the new security measures Agency Israeli police have banned Muslim men under the age of 50 from al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The ban comes ahead of feared mass protests over the installation of metal detectors aimed at increasing security at the site. Muslim […]
EGYPTIAN STREETS JULY 20, 2017 Archive photo of Israeli police forces in the old city of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli Forces have been ongoing in Jerusalem since last Friday. The dispute started after the Israeli Forces had set metal detectors at entrances of Haram Al-Sharif, also known […]
By Reuters – Jul 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians perform prayer near new metal detectors, outside one of the main entrances to Al Aqsa Mosque, refusing to enter because of the detectors installed by Israel, as the holy site reopened for the first time on Sunday since a two-day […]
Jul 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Every few years, it seems the world of Middle East and global policy analysis passes through a phase when a basic question rears its head in the media and in conversations across the world: Is Islamism a dangerous trend of the […]
By JT – Jul 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Heads of churches in Jerusalem on Thursday warned against any changes to the historical status quo in Jerusalem as the city continues to witness tensions. In a statement, a copy of which was e-mailed to The Jordan Times, an […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP JERUSALEM Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian man outside the Lion’s Gate, following an appeal from clerics to pray in the streets instead of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is debating […]
Jul 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Last Friday, there was an attack in Jerusalem. Three Israeli Palestinian young men opened fire on Israeli forces near Bab Al Asbat, the gate in the Jerusalem Old City wall that leads to Al Haram Al Sharif. Two Israeli officers were killed, […]