Jerusalem

Israeli police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday as they tried to disperse crowds of stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators following the funeral of a young Palestinian man who died from injuries sustained during confrontations with police last month. Dozens of people were reported wounded.

Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of Shireen Abu Akleh in Jerusalem.

Israeli police moved in on a crowd of mourners at the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, beating demonstrators with batons and causing pallbearers to briefly drop the casket. The crackdown came during a rare show of Palestinian nationalism in east Jerusalem, the part of the holy city that Israel captured in 1967 and that the Palestinians claim...

Palestinians and Israeli police have clashed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a major holy site in Jerusalem

The Palestinians have slammed Israel for rejecting the promised reopening of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem

SoftBank has invested $25 million in an Israeli venture capital platform called OurCrowd in exchange for a stake in the company.

After an excavation that lasted more than 150 years, an underground building constructed around A.D. 20 is set to open to the public in December.

Israel says archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back more than 2,700 years, when private bathrooms were a luxury in the holy city

Israel has appealed to its international allies for help in fighting wildfires raging outside of Jerusalem

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee just named 34 sites to the prestigious World Heritage List, representing two years’ worth of site nominations.

A long-running campaign by Jewish settlers to evict dozens of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem is still underway, even after it fueled weeks of unrest that helped ignite an 11-day Gaza war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East this week on the heels of nearly two weeks of fighting between Israel and Palestinians.

Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed on a daily basis for weeks in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, and the emotional epicenter of the Middle East conflict

Israel said it is deploying troops to the Gaza frontier ahead of a potential ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory amid continued cross-border conflict.

The cross-border violence between Israel and Palestinian militants showed no signs of abating as both sides pressed ahead with rocket attacks in Israeli cities and airstrikes in Gaza.

Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rockets from Gaza and Israel unleashed new air strikes against them

The holy city of Jerusalem is a tinderbox of competing religious and political claims

Thousands of Israelis have protested in Jerusalem as part of the latest weekly demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his handling of the coronavirus crisis and the corruption charges he faces

Dozens of world leaders have descended upon Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating modern-day anti-Semitism

A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus’ manger arrived Saturday in its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope. Cheerful crowds greeted the ornately encased relic with much fanfare before it entered the Franciscan Church of St. Catherine next...