Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
Three Israeli Jews arrested for the murder of a Palestinian teenager have confessed to abducting him and burning him alive, officials said on Monday, an incident that helped trigger a week of Israeli-Hamas fighting around the Gaza strip. Easing a court gag order on the case, Israel said the suspects, two of them minors, had…
(Haaretz) — We go up to the second floor, to a room that has a bed on the right and a bunk bed on the left, for the three boys: Raad, Saif a-Din and Mohammed. On the bottom bunk, which was Mohammed’s, his father has created a small memorial for his late son: A photograph of…
Jerusalem’s light rail overcame budget problems, archaeology, ancient graves and modern geopolitical conflict to open in 2011. The train’s ridership quickly exceeded expectations, and the light rail became a symbol of the casual coexistence that, albeit fragile, exists among Jerusalem’s secular Jewish, Orthodox and Palestinian populations. Not anymore. When the charred body of Mohammed Abu…
The revenge killing of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khudair has shaken up even those who normally have little reason to question their preconceived notions about the Israel-Palestinian dispute. Eli Valley takes an insightful graphic look at one (fictional) American Jew’s crisis of confidence. SCROLL DOWN TO ENLARGE. Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His…
At least one rocket fired from Gaza struck Jerusalem as Code Red warning sirens sounded in the city and throughout Israel’s center and south. The Israeli military confirmed that one rocket hit Jerusalem but did not say where. Among conflicting media reports, one said a home was damaged in the attack. No injuries were reported….
(Reuters) — Family and friends of a Florida teenager who says he was beaten by Israeli police while in detention describe him as a typical U.S. high school student. Tariq Khdeir, 15, recently finished his freshman year at the Universal Academy of Florida, a private Islamic school where he played on the soccer team. He…
“They hit me — and they kept hitting me,” said 15-year-old Palestinian American Tariq Abu Khdeir of Israeli police, who beat him during a protest at the home of his slain cousin Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Tariq Abu Khdeir spoke about his experience in a video published by Addameer after he was released from Israeli custody on…
The United States called for speedy investigation of an incident in which it said a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent appeared to have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police during riots in East Jerusalem this week. A video clip circulated on the internet on Saturday showed two Israeli Border police holding down and repeatedly…
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