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Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers guarding a West Bank checkpoint, August 16, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
September 19, 2017, 5:47 pm
Israel announces West Bank, Gaza closure for Rosh Hashanah
Only 'exceptional' cases to be allowed into Israel as nation ushers in Jewish new year; police deploy reinforcements in Jerusalem
By Judah Ari Gross
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (C) speaks during a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman on August 12, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)
August 31, 2017, 5:29 pm
Palestinians sue Greek Orthodox church over land sales to Israelis
300 Palestinian Christians file complaint in PA court against patriarchate for potentially capital offense of 'selling land to the enemy'
By AP
The fateful throw: Itzik Yakobovitch rolls the dice at the Jerusalem Backgammon Championships beneath the Old City Walls on August 24. At left is his rival Gadi Carmeli (Times of Israel staff)
August 25, 2017, 6:45 am
Jerusalem backgammon contest rolls winning dice for Jewish-Arab coexistence
Months of competition, attracting 500 players from across the city, culminate in a final, fateful throw
By David Horovitz
Illustrative: Palestinian schoolgirls chat as they head to school on the first day of a new academic year, at a United Nations-run school at the Al-Shatee refugee camp in Gaza City on August 23, 2017 (AFP/ MOHAMMED ABED)
August 24, 2017, 8:08 pm
Police bar Palestinian textbooks from Temple Mount school
Students reportedly not allowed to reach school on holy site while carrying books; police spokesperson says materials banned over 'incitement' fears
By Dov Lieber
An archaeologist works on part of a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, on August 23, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)
August 23, 2017, 11:18 am
Outside Jerusalem’s Old City, a once-in-a-lifetime find of ancient Greek inscription
During a salvage excavation ahead of telephone cable infrastructure placement, archaeologists uncover a rare intact 1,500-year-old mosaic from the dawn of the Christian empire
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian rioter in Wadi Joz, near the Old City of Jerusalem, July 21, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
August 16, 2017, 7:25 pm
Police accused of assaulting staff, patients at East Jerusalem hospital
Left-wing group says border guards used violence while searching for rioters, may have caused the death of a patient
By TOI staff
Police officers are at the scene of a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City on August 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2017, 9:52 pm
Palestinian attacker tries to stab ultra-Orthodox man but misses, police clip shows
In security footage, female assailant seen attempting to target Haredi passerby before stabbing another man, said to be Arab East Jerusalemite
By TOI staff
Israeli l forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on August 12, 2017. One man was injured and the Palestinian assailant detained. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2017, 12:24 pm
Man stabbed, lightly wounded in Jerusalem attack
Police say assailant was a woman who was overpowered and arrested by police at the scene
By TOI staff
Tova Saul, an Orthodox Jew, feeds stray cats in a neighborhood in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
August 8, 2017, 6:28 am
At midnight, Jerusalem Old City’s ‘cat lady’ prowls
While the holy city sleeps, US-Israeli Tova Saul tiptoes through its alleys, feeding and spaying hundreds of strays
By Joe Dyke
Jews visit the Old City of Jerusalem's Temple Mount compound on the Tisha B'Av fast day commemorating the destruction of the Jewish temples that once stood at the holy site, on August 1, 2017. (screen capture: Facebook)
August 1, 2017, 10:49 am
In record, over 1,300 Jews visit Temple Mount to commemorate destroyed temples
Unprecedented number comes amid heavy police presence in Old City; thousands of worshipers mark Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall
By TOI staff
In the late 19th century the Imperial Hotel was the classiest place to stay in the city. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
August 1, 2017, 7:58 am
Court sides with right-wing Jewish group in Old City church property dispute
In landmark ruling, judge says claims of real estate fraud made by Greek Orthodox Church over sale of two hotels are unsubstantiated
By Sue Surkes
Visitors wait at the entrance of the Flagellation Monastery, off the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City, for the Archaeology and Multimedia exhibition. (Courtesy of Tamschick Media)
July 31, 2017, 9:37 pm
Travel back in time at this secret cool oasis in Jerusalem’s Old City
The first stage of the 100-year-old Terra Sancta Museum's reboot offers a multi-media tour of the holy city from a Christian perspective
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl a stone towards Israeli troops during clashes near the Gaza border fence east of Jabalia refugee camp on July 21, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
July 28, 2017, 6:26 pm
Palestinian teen said killed in clashes with IDF along Gaza border
Health officials in Hamas-ruled enclave say 16-year-old was shot by Israeli soldiers
By TOI staff
Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit attends the Arab Foreign Minister's meeting in Cairo to discuss the simmering unrest in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
July 27, 2017, 9:51 pm
Arab League chief says Israel risks igniting ‘religious war’
Ahmed Abul Gheit warns 'not one single Muslim in the world would accept the desecration of Al-Aqsa mosque'
By AFP and TOI staff
Muslims pray as Border Police officers stand guard during Friday prayers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz, July 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 27, 2017, 5:31 am
Police investigate possible arson near Old City in Jerusalem
Authorities probe whether fire in Wadi Joz, just outside Lions' Gate, which damaged government building, was nationalistically motivated
By TOI staff
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