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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

Old City of Jerusalem

The white dome of the restored Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, as seen on June 3, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
June 27, 2025, 10:19 am
Government plan for restored synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City fuels fear of Haredi takeover
Ultra-Orthodox, Religious Zionist factions clash over management of rebuilt Tiferet Yisrael; critics fear site will be closed to public, exclude prayers for IDF and state
By Rossella Tercatin
The Western Wall Plaza stood completely empty on June 17, 2025, as the holy site was closed to worshipers due to the war with Iran. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
June 19, 2025, 6:01 am
Shuttered Old City, lively Mahane Yehuda market share faith God shields the holy city from Iran
While the Western Wall and Temple Mount are closed off along with the rest of the ancient quarters for security reasons, the ‘shuk’ in the new city remains open with music blaring
By Rossella Tercatin
Jewish men celebrate Jerusalem Day and clash with police at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 6:47 pm
Two teens charged with racist assault of Palestinian man during Jerusalem Day march
16-year-old defendants allegedly beat Old City resident while calling him a ‘dirty Arab’, tried to set fire to the entrance of his house
By Charlie Summers
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir gestures to a supporter as he walks escorted by Israeli police through the Old City of Jerusalem on May 26, 2025, during a flag march for Jerusalem Day. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 27, 2025, 2:14 am
Marchers chant ‘Death to Arabs,’ skirmish with shopkeepers and cops at Jerusalem Day parade
Ben Gvir slams Gaza humanitarian aid while kicking off nationalist march into Old City: ‘Our enemies deserve only a bullet to the head’; activists erect giant sign urging mass expulsion of Palestinians
By Charlie Summers
Police officers work the scene of a stabbing at the Temple Mount's Chain Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, May 16, 2025. (Israel Police)
May 17, 2025, 12:27 am
Police officer stabbed in Old City of Jerusalem, assailant shot dead
Attacker from East Jerusalem charged at cop near Temple Mount’s Chain Gate and stabbed him in the back, moderately wounding him, police and medics say
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Christian pilgrims light candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
April 19, 2025, 5:33 pm
Orthodox Christian pilgrims gather in Jerusalem for annual Holy Fire ceremony
Masses convene the day before Easter at Church of Holy Sepulchre to witness ritual ignition of candles at traditional site of Jesus’s tomb
By ToI Staff
New US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee holds up a note he says was given him by US President Donald Trump to be place in the crevices of the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 18, 2025. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)
April 18, 2025, 4:10 pm
New US envoy puts note with prayer from Trump in Western Wall: ‘For peace in Israel’
Mike Huckabee says US president told him first thing he should do as ambassador is to place message in 2,000-year-old holy site, offers own prayer for the return of the hostages
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: Jews pray at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on April 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 16, 2025, 1:19 am
Police said to allow group of 180 Jews onto Temple Mount, further testing norms
Unwritten status quo has long seen police cap such groups at 30; organization backing these visits says 3,076 Jews have ascended flashpoint holy site since start of Passover
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) visits Jerusalem's Temple Mount, April 2, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 2, 2025, 3:20 pm
Ben Gvir again ascends, prays on Temple Mount; Haredi MK slams visit as ‘desecration’
National security minister’s visit to flashpoint site immediately after Ramadan’s conclusion stirs ‘unnecessary incitement in Muslim world,’ charges UTJ’s Gafni
By Sam Sokol and Agencies
Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray outside the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City while attending the first Ramadan Friday noon prayer, on March 7, 2025, during Islam's fasting holy month. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
March 7, 2025, 6:19 pm
90,000 Muslim worshipers pray peacefully at Al-Aqsa on first Friday of Ramadan
Old City under heavy police presence with some 3,000 cops and border guards deployed in Jerusalem; Israel limits entry of West Bank Palestinians
By Charlie Summers
An archaeological site under Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate featuring a 2nd century CE Roman gate and plaza dating was opened to the public on February 26, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
March 5, 2025, 2:45 pm
Biblical-themed exhibit inaugurated at Roman site under Damascus Gate in Jerusalem
A 2nd-century gate in the Old City’s Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital’s multilayered history — and complex present
By Rossella Tercatin
Medics at the scene of an axe attack in Jerusalem's Old City that moderately injured a woman, February 19, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
February 20, 2025, 4:53 am
Woman moderately injured in axe attack in Jerusalem’s Old City; motive being probed
Police searching for assailant who fled immediately after committing the attack in Jewish Quarter home; victim, in her 70s, is taken to hospital
By ToI Staff
The entrance to an UNRWA boys' school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, November 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 11:36 am
UNRWA prepares to shutter operations in East Jerusalem as Israeli ban set to take effect
Knesset has barred operation of UN agency, which administers schools, medical clinics, other services for descendants of Palestinian refugees, over employees’ involvement in terror
By Agencies and ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on December 26, 2024. (Courtesy Otzma Yehudit)
December 26, 2024, 2:53 pm
Ben Gvir says he prayed on Temple Mount, PM quickly claims status quo hasn’t changed
Hamas calls for escalation of violence over national security minister’s visit to holy site, where Jews are banned from praying but lately have done so increasingly openly
By ToI Staff
A liquor store decorated for Christmas in the Christian Quarter of the Jerusalem Old City, December 24, 2024 (Gianluca Pacchiani/Times of Israel)
December 24, 2024, 10:42 pm
Jerusalem’s Christmas dimmed by war, but some Christians see a glimmer of hope
As conflict persists and tourist influx remains limited, public celebrations in the Old City are canceled for the second year in a row, but some refuse to give in to despair
By Gianluca Pacchiani
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