Palestinians warn building in E1 area could sever East Jerusalem from West Bank and undermine prospects for two-state solution - Anadolu Ajansı

He served as mayor of Jerusalem from 2003 to 2008, becoming the first haredi (ultra-Orthodox) politician elected to the role.

In Bethlehem, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, affirmed that “one of the great messages of Christmas” is that God “does not wait for history to improve before entering into it,

Israeli authorities have issued a tender to build 3,401 new illegal Jewish settler homes in an area known as E1, east of Jerusalem.

The two were convicted of four counts of attempted murder in the context of a terrorist act and related offenses, following a combined attack involving a car ramming and an attempted shooting. The Jerusalem District Court sentenced the two perpetrators of the terrorist car ramming attack in the Jerusalem Romema neighborhood in April 2024 that injured four people to 28 years in prison.

The controversy that has enveloped Israel's content sector since Oct. 7, 2023 was the hot topic at the inaugural Jerusalem Sessions conference.