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A view from the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with the Old City and Temple Mount in the background, November 17, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
December 16, 2025, 9:35 am
The world’s oldest Jewish cemetery is getting an upgrade. Not everyone is at peace with it
Plans for a major visitor center at the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem promise education and security, but opponents say it’s a right-wing project designed to push out Arab neighbors
By Zev Stub
The scene of a house fire in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, January 23, 2024. (Magen David Adom)
January 23, 2024, 8:47 pm
2 young kids killed in East Jerusalem fire; mother, third child seriously hurt
Muhammad, 6, and Nasma, 3, al-Naghal killed when their apartment in Ras al-Amoud goes up in flames; initial probe finds open coil heater was placed next to sofa
By ToI Staff
Horses walk in a farm belonging to a Palestinian family in Umm Tuba, with the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa visible in the background, Thursday, February 23, 2023. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
March 28, 2023, 8:33 pm
Jerusalem pushing plans for new Jewish enclaves inside Palestinian neighborhoods
Some 2,000 housing units in Abu Dis, Umm Tuba and Ras-al-Amoud, as well as a proposal for a new neighborhood, are being advanced by the city together with right-wing groups
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Palestinian youths clash with Israeli security forces in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, October 12, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
October 13, 2022, 1:12 am
Heavy clashes seen across East Jerusalem amid surging Palestinian unrest
Two cops injured; car with Jewish family forced to flee after stoned; footage shows hail of fireworks and police car surrounded by flames as fighting spreads beyond Shuafat
By ToI Staff
Police and firefighters are seen at the scene of a suspected stabbing attack in East Jerusalem's Ras al-Amud, March 20, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 20, 2022, 6:31 pm
Police officer moderately hurt in East Jerusalem stabbing; assailant arrested
Cops allegedly attacked by several suspects after entering Palestinian neighborhood to put out burning car; second officer slightly injured; attacker captured after fleeing scene
By Emanuel Fabian
Border Police officers enforce a curfew in the ultra Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, April 16, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 16, 2020, 5:25 pm
Cabinet eases Bnei Brak lockdown, extends Jerusalem neighborhoods closure
Cars to be permitted into Haredi city, but no public transportation; earlier reports said lockdown would be lifted fully
By ToI Staff
Ras al-Amoud in East Jerusalem, on October 21, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 9, 2018, 10:26 am
East Jerusalem man killed in brawl between two families
Another man killed in shooting in Jaffa amid spate of street violence nationwide
By ToI Staff
Security forces clash with Palestinian protesters during a protest at Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, December 8, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 14, 2017, 12:02 pm
37 Palestinian rioters arrested in East Jerusalem police raids
Cops say 67 detained overall for participation in violent demonstrations against Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
By Stuart Winer
The Jewish neighborhood of Ma'ale Hazeitim, at the heart of the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, on the Mount of Olives, May 2011 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
December 8, 2017, 6:01 am
At East Jerusalem enclave, some Jews happier with Trump than with Netanyahu
From their walled-off compound within Ras Al-Amoud, Ma’ale Hazeitim residents praise a decision ‘of biblical proportions’
By Jacob Magid
Police detain a man, suspected of instigating riots in East Jerusalem, during arrests carried out overnight August 2, 2017. (Israel Police)
August 3, 2017, 9:22 am
15 more arrested on suspicion of instigating Temple Mount riots
Overnight raids in East Jerusalem neighborhoods round up alleged key figures who police say fueled violent protests
By Raoul Wootliff
Derby County soccer players bow their heads during a minute's silence April 17, 2017, held in memory of Hannah Bladon, who was murdered in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017. Bladon was a Derby County supporter (Sky screenshot)
April 17, 2017, 7:23 pm
UK soccer club holds minute of silence for student murdered in Jerusalem
‘Keen Derby County supporter’ Hannah Bladon, who was stabbed to death Friday on light rail, honored before Monday’s game
By ToI Staff
Hannah Bladon, an English student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017 (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
April 15, 2017, 8:52 pm
UK student was standing near killer because she gave up her seat for woman with baby
Bladon, 21, had been sitting further back on the light rail; Palestinian terrorist says he stabbed her to death because he wanted the soldier standing next to her to kill him
By ToI Staff
Hannah Bladon, an English student who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem on April 14, 2017 (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
April 15, 2017, 2:37 pm
Family of British student killed in Jerusalem attack ‘devastated’
Parents of Hannah Bladon, 21, say her murder at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist Friday was ‘senseless and tragic’
By ToI Staff
Police at the scene where Hannah Bladon, 21, a British exchange student, was killed in a stabbing attack on Jerusalem's light rail near IDF square in Jerusalem, on April 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Inset: Hannah Bladon. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2017, 7:42 pm
British woman murdered in Jerusalem attack named as Hannah Bladon, 21
Bladon, stabbed to death by a Palestinian on the light rail, was an exchange student at Hebrew University
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Police collect evidence at the scene of a stabbing attack on the Jerusalem light rail near IDF Square in the capital on April 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
April 14, 2017, 5:50 pm
Tram stabber was on his way home from a mental hospital — police
British woman killed in attack on Jerusalem’s light rail by East Jerusalem resident; off-duty cop, civilian tackle terrorist to the ground
By Judah Ari Gross
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