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Topic: East Jerusalem

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January 24, 2013
5:50 pm

Jerusalem police prevent two PA officials holding press conference

Pair were arrested, then escorted back to West Bank

By Philip Podolsky

January 19, 2013
8:34 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to Russian immigrants during an election campaign stop in the port city of Ashdod, Wednesday (Photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Netanyahu hits back at Obama: I won’t capitulate

It would be easy to retreat to indefensible pre-67 lines and divide Jerusalem, prime minister says, ‘but we’d get Hamas 400 meters from my house’

By Times of Israel staff

January 16, 2013
6:23 pm

Discovering the hidden sides of Jerusalem

A summer in East Jerusalem inspires a workshop for Muslim, Christian and Jewish women

By Aviva Lev-David

January 16, 2013
10:28 am

The unregulated buildings of the Kufr Aqab neighborhood of Jerusalem, with the security barrier in the foreground (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Beyond the security barrier, building is booming

Jerusalem’s Kufr Aqab neighborhood, which is inside city limits, is a wild west of unregulated construction

By Karin Laub

January 15, 2013
8:48 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fed up, Obama says Israel ‘doesn’t know its own best interests’

US president, unhappy over settlement building, said to say he has come to expect such self-defeating behavior from Netanyahu

By Times of Israel staff

January 9, 2013
5:36 pm

A screen capture from a Shas party campaign ad that featured a stereotypical depiction of a Russian woman

Shas to shelve racially loaded ad about conversion to Judaism

Meanwhile, politicians from far-right Otzma Leyisrael petition High Court for permission to resume campaign banned as racist

By Adiv Sterman

January 4, 2013
7:48 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to Fatah supporters during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the movement's founding in Ramallah, December 31 (photo credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90)

Israel’s East Jerusalem construction plans crossed red line, says PA president

Abbas says it is the Palestinian’s right and duty to do “everything possible” to oppose new building

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 29, 2012
4:10 pm

Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israeli minister rejects UK’s rebuke for construction beyond the Green Line

‘Our connection to Ariel is at least as strong as the UK’s connection to the Falkland Islands,’ says Gideon Sa’ar

By Ron Friedman

December 27, 2012
6:17 pm

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash90.)

Hinting at war crimes charges, UK minister attacks Israel for East Jerusalem construction plans

Alistair Burt also calls for reversal of Ariel University upgrade; praises Mahmoud Abbas for ‘measured response’ to Israel’s ‘profoundly provocative actions’

By Raphael Ahren

December 26, 2012
10:55 pm

The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace

Exhausted, resigned, disillusioned, two-staters are pivoting away from the Middle East

By Mark Donig

December 26, 2012
1:16 pm

A Jerusalem youth carries the Hamas flag (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hamas official calls for suicide bombings in response to East Jerusalem construction plans

Ahmed Abu Haliba says ‘armed resistance’ should be used to stop Israel from building the Third Temple

By Gabe Fisher

December 26, 2012
12:14 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman present their joint campaign prior to the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem on December 25, 2012. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Likud-Beytenu puts Jerusalem, settlement construction at fore of its election campaign

Addressing launch event, Netanyahu vows to push for ‘strong leadership’; Meretz party’s four-point peace plan calls for nullification of Oslo Accords

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 25, 2012
12:47 pm

Mahmoud Abbas at the Church of the Nativity, Christmas Eve 2012 (photo credit: AP/Abed Al Hashlamoun)

Abbas makes Christmas appeal for return to talks

Palestinian leader tells Bethlehem worshipers that Israel, Palestinians must abide by international law; calls for East Jerusalem building plans to be rescinded

By Asher Zeiger

December 25, 2012
6:11 am

Israel will build in Jerusalem no matter the criticism, vows senior minister

If Israel’s international critics learned more about Jewish history in the city, at least their condemnations would not ‘come out of ignorance,’ Uzi Landau says