New footage aired Monday evening on Israel’s Kan public broadcaster showed a freshly dug pit beside the tomb, evidence of an apparent effort to remove the 16th-century rabbi’s bones. Syrian gunmen ...

The delegation also visited the cemetery in the Jewish Quarter and Rabbi Vital’s grave. Rabbi Chaim Vital lived in Damascus from 1595, where he served as rabbi of the Sicilian community.

View of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, April 2, 2025 (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Yemen once had a vibrant Jewish community, although not considered the holiest country for Jews ...

People who read the Quran know this.” View of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Old City, April 2, 2025 (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Yemen once had a vibrant Jewish community, although not considered ...

Ben-Gurion University Vice President Michal Bar Asher-Siegal, who is an expert in Christian-Jewish relations, told JI that Pizzaballa’s advancement to cardinal was “crazy, it shows the importance of ...

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Why would a Moroccan Jew visit the Chamber of the Holocaust in the Old City of Jerusalem ... Born and raised in the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Marrakesh, my father left Morocco for Paris in ...

In several towns, residents fled on their own before official orders were given. Shmuel Friedman, Jerusalem District Fire and Rescue commander, described to Ynet the situation as out of control ...

Sukkot argued. Shin Bet director Ronen Bar seen at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 6, 2022 (credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90) "I expect from the head of the Shin Bet, that if the prime ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers visited a Jerusalem holy site during the holiday of Passover as far-right Israeli lawmaker Zvi Sukkot boasted, “Arabs aren’t allowed to come near us.” Sukkot, a member ...

On Friday, Huckabee arrived at the Western Wall to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and to insert a handwritten note from U.S. President Donald Trump between the stones of the ancient Jewish edifice.

On Friday, Huckabee arrived at the Western Wall to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and to insert a handwritten note from U.S. President Donald Trump between the stones of the ancient Jewish edifice.