The conversation didn't happen the way Benjamin Netanyahu said, but it still sheds light on a historical moment ...

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.

The Israeli PM’s ‘big lie’ about Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was of a piece with Netanyahu’s history of making false and misleading claims. The Israeli prime minister’s comments that an ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — 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 ...

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.

In 1941 the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Husseini, a supporter of Hitler, invited him to come to Palestine and “eliminate all the Jews.” In a letter he wrote in 1921 to Winston Churchill, who ...

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 ...

Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It's a toxic piece of real estate with a chequered history, in a flashpoint district of a turbulent city -- hardly a realtor's dream. The derelict Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem was ...

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 ...