JERUSALEM — The grand mufti of Jerusalem has condemned the agreement approved by Israel’s Cabinet to establish an egalitarian prayer area at the Western Wall. The area next to the Western Wall is “the ...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations spoke out forcefully against the notion of Palestinian statehood during a U.N. Security council meeting on Monday, going so far as to suggest that the U.N.

If the founding leader of the Palestinian national movement had been wanted for Nazi war crimes, you might assume ...

It wasn’t about Israel. It was Nov. 28, 1941. Israel, founded in 1948 — seven years later — did not exist. The territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine was then under the control the British.

The former grand mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, 85, arrives for questioning by Israeli police in May over a previous sermon he gave at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque — AHMAD GHARABLI A senior ...

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The statements of Khateeb came after an Israeli members of Knesset, National Union Faction chairman, Uri Ariel, visited the Al Aqsa Mosque along with his bodyguards. Ariel said that the Mosque ...

Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and PA officials protest outside the British Consulate-General in eastern Jerusalem on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, November 2, 2021.

A senior Muslim cleric was detained on suspicion of inciting "terrorism" on Aug. 2 after he mourned slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque, his lawyer told AFP.