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| December 1, 2017
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Under threat of cancelation, Giro d’Italia removes ‘West Jerusalem’ designation

After Israeli Ministers threatened to drop out of hosting the professional cycling race in Israel, organizers of Giro d’Italia remove mentions of ‘West Jerusalem’ from its website, changing it to just ‘Jerusalem’, capital of Israel.
– Ministers Regev and Levin say they are relieved.

By The Associated Press

 

Israeli officials on Thursday declared victory in a battle over semantics surrounding the upcoming Giro d’Italia, saying it had persuaded the cycling event to remove any reference to “West Jerusalem” from their website.

The Giro, one of cycling’s three major races, will open in Israel next May, with the first day set to take place in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2017
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REPORT: US to follow Russia to become 2nd country recognizing Jerusalem as Capital

Just a day before Israel’s TV News reported the White House may formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital early next week, U.S. Vice President Pence said that President Trump was ”actively considering” relocating the embassy to Jerusalem.

By HERB KEINON

 

US President Donald Trump may formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital early next week and direct his staff to prepare for moving the embassy to Jerusalem, Channel 2 News reported Wednesday night.

VP Pence with President Trump. – Screen Shot: White House/YouTube

The report, to which there was no immediate confirmation, followed a speech US Vice President Mike Pence gave a day earlier in which he said that Trump was “actively considering” the step. Continue Reading »

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| November 30, 2017
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Palestinians Feuding With Saudis For Exposing Revisionist History Over Jerusalem

Palestinians furious with Saudi Arabia for downplaying ‘Importance of Jerusalem’ by contradicting the long told revisionist stories that the Palestinians invented to elevate their relevancy in the Holy Land.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Proponents of the Palestinian cause have tried to inflate the position of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in Islam, and thereby paint Israel’s sovereignty in this city as an affront to their religion.

But, a couple years ago, renowned Egyptian scholar and novelist Youssef Ziedan acknowledged in a series of television interviews that Jerusalem holds no religious significance for Muslims.

Today, it is common to hear that Jerusalem is Islam’s third holiest city, being the location of the “Al Aqsa Mosque” referred to the in the Koran. Continue Reading »

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| November 13, 2017
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Court Verdict: 6 illegal Arab high-rise buildings in Jerusalem to be leveled

The controlled explosive demolition of 6 illegally constructed apartment buildings, all six stories or taller, will be led by City of Jerusalem officials, and carried out in a joint operation by Israel Police, IDF demolition experts, and the Shin Bet internal security agency.

By David Rosenberg

 

The City of Jerusalem, in conjunction with Israeli security forces, is planning a massive demolition operation against an illegal neighborhood on the northern edge of the city.

Legal & licensed construction in Jerusalem – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

According to a report by Kan 11 Sunday night, the Jerusalem municipality is taking aim at six illegally-built high-rise apartment buildings in the village of Kafr Aqab, which sits inside the municipal boundaries of the capital. Continue Reading »

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| November 12, 2017
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Dore Gold tells US Congress: Palestinian have consistently destroyed Jewish historical sites

Testifying before the US congress, Israel’s former U.N. ambassador details the historic failures of the UN & Palestinians in protecting religious sites in Jerusalem, and pointed out “arrangements for the holy city that plainly have not worked in the past, will undoubtedly fail in the future… Only a free and democratic Israel will protect Jerusalem for all the great faiths.”

By Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Dr. Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and former Israeli ambassador the United Nations, addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security on Wednesday under the title of “Moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem: Challenges and Opportunities.” Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2017
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Republican official: Trump still plans to move US Embassy to Jerusalem, as promised

WATCH VIDEO: Head of Republicans Overseas Israel explains how President Trump’s first wants an opportunity for Israel and the Sunni states to get together against the Iranian threat, both on the nuclear level and on the geopolitical level, before ruffling Palestinian feathers.

By Eliran Baruch

 

Attorney Mark Zell, the head of Republicans Overseas Israel, said the US President Donald Trump still fully intends to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“He is probably the only president since President Clinton in the 1990s who is intending to move the embassy to Jerusalem,” he said.

“He also has to deal with reality as he finds it,” Zell said, explaining why the embassy has not yet been moved. Continue Reading »

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| August 17, 2017
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Following tip from Arab woman, Israel Police catch suspect with concealed knife

Jerusalem Arab woman warns police of a suspicious Arab man whom she observed with a concealed knife as he was going toward Jerusalem’s city center.

By David Rosenberg

 

Police captured an Arab suspect from Shuafat neighborhood in northeastern Jerusalem as he made his way to the center of town with a concealed knife, following a tip by an Arab woman who observed him with the weapon.

The woman, also a resident of Shuafat, reportedly witnessed the suspect placing a sharp object in his bag before boarding a bus towards downtown Jerusalem.

Palestinian media inciting the children to kill – Ynet anti-BDS conference

After witnessing this, the woman contacted police stationed near the entrance of Shuafat, informing them of the suspect’s concealed weapon. Continue Reading »

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| July 27, 2017
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It’s Over: Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti calls to resume prayer at Al-Aqsa

 

After the Waqf, the Jordanian body that oversees the Muslim religious site in Jerusalem spoke with Muslim leaders, Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti encouraged worshipers to return to pray atop the Temple Mount.

By Reuters and Elior Levy

 

Jerusalem Grand Mufti Mohammed Hussein and Muslim elders encouraged worshipers to return to pray at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday after deeming that Israel had removed all security measures installed after a deadly terror attack in the Old City earlier this month that sparked a prolonged period of violence.

Temple Mount Complex – Illustrated by IsraelandStuff

The elders announced their decision after a report from the Waqf, a Jordaninan-backed body that oversees the Muslim religious sites in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2017
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Israeli archaeologists confirm Babylonian assault on Jerusalem from latest discovery

 

The latest archaeological findings unearthed at the City of David, an excavation site in Jerusalem, help prove the destruction of the ancient Jewish city at the hands of the Babylonians.

By i24NEWS

 

New archaeological findings at a controversial excavation site in Jerusalem help prove the destruction of the ancient city at the hands of the Babylonians.

Less than a week before Tisha B’Av, the Jewish holiday which mourns the destruction of the Jewish temple, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced the latest research from its painstaking excavation.

Other artifacts which attest to Jerusalem’s affluence prior to the Babylonian assault on the city 2,600 years ago.

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| July 13, 2017
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Swedish magazine: Time for the UN to Accept the Outcome of the 6-Day War

Of all the places to read this, it’s in a Swedish magazine ‘The World Today’: “After almost fifty years, it is time for the international community to acknowledge that the Six-Day War is over and that Jerusalem is, has been, and will always remain the capital of the Jews.”

By Tomas Sandel/translated by Mordechai Sones

 

Swedish magazine Världen idag (“The World Today“) ran an article entitled Time for the UN to Accept the Outcome of the Six-Day War by Tomas Sandell. Arutz Sheva brings a translation of the article in its entirety for the wholly lucid dedication to truth Sandell demonstrates herein:

This week, the international community will mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War and the reunification of Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| July 6, 2017
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Greek Church covertly sold huge Jerusalem land tracts to anonymous investors

 

Israeli MK Rachel Azaria and hundreds of Jerusalem residents worried about the disposition of their homes, as well as any future change to the character of the capital of the Jewish State.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD, GLOBES

 

The Greek Orthodox Church last week sold 50 hectares of land in central Jerusalem – some 124 acres containing more than 1,000 housing units in numerous buildings – to an anonymous group of investors, spurring fears of a hostile takeover.

For many years, the land was leased to the Jewish National Fund in agreements that are about to expire, leaving the residents’ future rights in limbo. Continue Reading »

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| June 21, 2017
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Prime Minister’s Office allows 7,000 housing units in Jerusalem once Kushner arrived

 

PM Netanyahu gave a thumb’s-up to the Jerusalem planning and construction committee for processing the approval of 7,000 homes in Jewish neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem.

Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Prime Minister’s Office gave a green light to the planning and building committee in Jerusalem to discuss the approval of some 7,000 housing units in neighborhoods beyond the so-called ‘Green Line.’

According to the publication in Yisrael Hayom,there are about 3,500 housing units in Gilo, another about 2,200 in Har Homa, 900 in Pisgat Zeev, 500 in Ramat Shlomo and another 100 in Ramot.

Building Jewish homes in Jerusalem – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Following the decision of the Prime Minister’s Office, the approval of more than 7,000 of these housing units, which were not recently promoted, will be accelerated so that they may begin construction on them. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2017
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UN envoy: Palestinian terrorists should not be extolled as ‘Heroes’

 

UN official Nickolay Mladenov says he is appalled how Palestinian groups praised the terrorists’ attack as ‘heroic’ and that the reaction should instead have been explicit condemnation of such violence.

By JOY BERNARD

 

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov condemned Friday’s brutal terror attack that resulted in the death of 23-year-old border policewoman Hadas Malka.

“My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, and I wish a speedy recovery to the injured,” Mladenov said in an official statement released on Saturday afternoon. Continue Reading »

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| June 17, 2017
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Palestinians commit double-attack, Abbas rebukes Israel for ‘executing’ armed terrorists

 

PA chairman’s political faction doesn’t condemn Palestinian-ISIS terror-attack in Jerusalem, but criticizes Israel for the 3 terrorists dying after being neutralized by security forces near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, while they were carrying out their combined shooting & stabbing attack.

By Arutz Sheva North America Staff

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah on Friday night blasted Israel for killing the three terrorists who carried out the combined shooting and stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, in which 23-year-old Border Police officer Hadas Malka was murdered.

Weapons used in Jerusalem Attack – Israel Police

In a statement, Fatah referred to the killing of the three as an “execution” and described it as a “war crime”. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2017
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US Amb. Bolton: It’s “a Basic human right” for Jews to purchase homes anywhere

 

WATCH Interview: Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton says, “the notion that Jews can’t buy property in the Old City, in Jerusalem, in any of the former British Mandate, frankly, is unacceptable.”

By Eliran Baruch

 

Former US Ambassador to the U John Bolton spoke to Arutz Sheva about Jewish rights in Jerusalem at the annual dinner of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim Jerusalem Monday night.

“I think it’s a basic human right” for Jews to purchase homes from Arabs in Jerusalem, Ambassador Bolton said. “As long as you have a willing seller and a willing buyer, the notion that Jews can’t buy property in the Old City, in Jerusalem, in any of the former British Mandate, frankly, is unacceptable.” Continue Reading »

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