East Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (right) hold a press conference at the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, February 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

June 5, 2018, 10:45 am

Shin Bet says it thwarted plot to assassinate prime minister, Jerusalem mayor

East Jerusalem man, 2 accomplices arrested for allegedly planning 'significant terror attacks' on behalf of Syria-based group

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian schoolgirls play after school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, March 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

June 1, 2018, 6:09 am

Israel unveils plan to pump billions into neglected Arab areas of East Jerusalem

Education, infrastructure and jobs program called 'most comprehensive attempt' yet to narrow gap between Arab and Jewish parts of city

By AP

Graffiti reading "Jews wake up" found at the scene of an apparent hate crime attack in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat on May 14, 2018. (Yesh Din)

May 14, 2018, 11:30 am

Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem targeted in apparent hate crime

In addition to slashed tires and Hebrew slogans graffitied on walls in Shuafat, a Molotov cocktail is hurled at a Jewish home in Silwan

By Jacob Magid

People tour the Jerusalem Ramparts Walk on Jerusalem's Old City walls overlooking the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

May 13, 2018, 6:19 pm

Opening tense week, government okays huge East Jerusalem ‘sovereignty plan’

Ministers authorize NIS 2 billion ($560 million) for plans to formalize land ownership claims, apply Israeli curriculum to Palestinian schools, and build cable car to Western Wall

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli security forces patrol the entrance of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher in September 2015. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90

May 1, 2018, 1:28 pm

3 Palestinians charged with planning attack for Hamas

East Jerusalem residents who allegedly wanted to gun down Israeli soldiers in the West Bank were known to security forces

By TOI staff

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

April 23, 2018, 11:42 pm

US envoy says Jerusalem under Israel is ‘model for coexistence in the world’

David Friedman says Trump's recognition of holy city as Israel's capital was meant to 'extend an olive branch to all major religions'

By Raphael Ahren

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the 29th Summit of the Arab League at the Ithra center in Dhahran, Eastern Saudi Arabia, on April 15, 2018. (AFP/STR)

April 15, 2018, 4:47 pm

Saudi king slams Trump for transferring US embassy to Jerusalem

At opening of Arab League summit, Salman says East Jerusalem is an 'integral part' of the Palestinian territories, denounces Iran for 'blatant interference' in other countries

By AFP and TOI staff

A car in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem vandalized with spray paint protesting administrative detention in Hebrew, on April 5, 2018. (Israel Police)

April 5, 2018, 9:10 am

Cars vandalized in East Jerusalem in suspected anti-Arab hate crime

Police open investigation into possible 'price tag' attack after graffiti daubed on vehicles, tires punctured in second incident in 2 days

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Scene of fatal accident in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem, in which 4-year-old boy was killed on March 28, 2018. (Israel police)

March 28, 2018, 5:13 pm

4-year-old dies after being hit by truck in East Jerusalem

Paramedics arrive to find boy trapped under vehicle in Jabel Mukaber with multiple injuries and no vital signs

By TOI staff

Sarah Tuttle-Singer on a rooftop in the Old City of Jerusalem (Courtesy)

March 21, 2018, 3:42 pm

Sarah Tuttle-Singer offers startling, emotional Jerusalem insights in first book

For debut 'Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered,' The Times of Israel's new media editor spent a year living in very different parts of the endlessly fascinating Old City

By Jessica Steinberg

Hebrew-slogan reading 'God is the king' sprayed on a vehicle near the Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev in East Jerusalem, March 19, 2018. (Police spokesperson)

March 19, 2018, 9:22 am

Tires slashed, anti-Arab graffiti daubed in East Jerusalem

Hebrew slogans calling for the expulsion or genocide of Jerusalem Arabs sprayed on walls near Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev

By Stuart Winer

Weapons captured by police in an undercover operation in East Jerusalem (Israel Police)

March 12, 2018, 6:23 pm

Police nab dozens of weapons, 22 suspects in East Jerusalem

Captured arms include bombs, assault rifles, handguns and ammunition; some of those arrested said to be known terror operatives

By TOI staff

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

March 9, 2018, 3:18 pm

EU: Jerusalem residency law could make Palestinians’ status ‘precarious’

Legislation passed Wednesday allows Israel's interior minister to revoke residency of East Jerusalem residents involved in terrorism or espionage

By Marissa Newman and TOI staff

Palestinians wave Hamas flags as they celebrate the prisoner swap deal reached between Israel and Hamas in East Jerusalem. Oct 18, 2011.(Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

March 7, 2018, 3:32 pm

Hamas members in East Jerusalem could lose residency under new law

Interior minister now permitted to cancel permits over 'breach of trust' to the State of Israel

By Marissa Newman

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan at a Likud party conference in Lod on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

February 26, 2018, 4:51 pm

Public security minister nixes PA education minister’s East Jerusalem visit

Charging that Oslo Accords prohibit official PA activity in Jerusalem, Gilad Erdan raps 'continuing attempts' by Palestinians to show presence in city

By Sue Surkes