By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Throughout the ages, Biblical scholars have grappled with a question similar to the age-old riddle about the chicken and egg that has stumped generations of scientists: What will come first – the Messiah or the Third Temple? Will the Messiah precede and facilitate the building of the Third…
By Gil Hoffman, Jpost— Allies of Israel in the U.S. House of Representatives submitted a bill Monday that would enable Congress to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on American documents. The bill calls for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem. It would also challenge the recent Supreme Court decision that prevented Jerusalem, Israel…
By Elad Benari, Arutz 7— Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced President Barack Obama’s decision to open an embassy in Cuba before Washington has an embassy in Jerusalem. “How sad is it that under the Obama administration the United States is going to have an embassy in Havana before we have an embassy in…
By ARUTZ SHEVA— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the Border Police headquarters in Jerusalem Wednesday, and met with the Border Police officers who were wounded in last Friday’s terrorist attack and the officers and security guards were involved in neutralizing the terrorist. Israel Police Commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino, Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri, Jerusalem…
By Efrat Forsher, Yori Yalon, Shlomo Cesana, ISRAEL HAYOM— A 27-year-old ultra-Orthodox man was stabbed in the stomach by a Palestinian terrorist in central Jerusalem on Sunday evening. The attack, which took place in IDF Square near City Hall, could have ended with far graver consequences had it not been for the intervention of Jerusalem Mayor…
By ISRAEL TODAY— The number of Jewish visitors to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount saw a significant boost over the past year, despite ongoing efforts to discourage non-Muslims from ascending the holy plateau and a firm ban on all Jewish and Christian prayer. Last month, the Temple Institute made a “freedom of information” request to the Israel…
By MOSHE COHEN, ARUTZ7— The US Senate is taking another stab at changing the White House’s policy of keeping the American Embassy to Israel out of Jerusalem. On Tuesday, US Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Dean Heller (R-NV) proposed a law that would remove the president’s authority to invoke national security as a reason to…
By DR. NESSIA SHEMER, ISRAEL HAYOM— “For Al-Aqsa We Will Run Over Settlers” is the name of a new song put online recently by two Palestinian singers from Ramallah. The popular slogan “Al-Aqsa is in danger” has been used by extremist Islamic elements for decades, since the days of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the grand mufti…
by ARYEH SAVIR, UNITEDWITHISRAEL— The Jerusalem area was hit by the second vehicular attack in one day, as a terrorist ran his van into a group of soldiers patrolling near the al-Arub refugee camp in Gush Etzion on Wednesday night. In the morning, Hamas terrorist Ibrahim al-Akari rammed his van into pedestrians in Jerusalem Wednesday…
Swastikas alongside the Star of David, the ancient Jewish symbol, greeted visitors to the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – on Sunday morning, following incitement on Friday by Palestinian Authority Chair Mahmoud Abbas, who stated that Jews should be prohibited from visiting the compound. Abbas called on Palestinians living in east Jerusalem to maintain…