The region around Jerusalem has a long history of religious practices. Those practices might date back to the Stone Age. The people who lived in a recently discovered 9,000-year-old city just outside present-day Jerusalem were likely people of faith, according to an archaeologist who co-led the excavation.
As a massive fire was ripping through the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, a significantly smaller fire started in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Romanian and Honduran officials announced on Sunday that they would be moving their Israeli embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Some 20,000 technology experts and investors attended Israel’s largest technology meeting in its history.
The United States closed the doors on its consulate in East Jerusalem Monday. The consulate acted as the “de facto embassy” to the Palestinians, but now most of its work will be carried out from the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Archaeologists discovered tiny stone weighing approximately 11 grams and dating back to the period of Solomon’s temple. The stone had been inscribed with the word “beka” in Hebrew.
On Tuesday morning an attempted terror attack was thwart in the Adumim bloc in Israel, just east of Jerusalem.
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president elect, recently disclosed plans to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem.
Archeologists have uncovered more information about the 2,000-year-old stone inscription that they say has the oldest record of the full name of Jerusalem.
