The Latest Breaking News from Jerusalem

Israeli police say a suspected assailant rammed his car into several pedestrians in east Jerusalem, killing two people and injuring five others before being shot and killed

Two Israelis including a child were killed by a Palestinian driver who rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, Israeli police said.

Ratib Matar’s family was growing. They needed more space. Before his granddaughters, now 4 and 5, were born, he built three apartments on an eastern slope overlooking Jerusalem’s ancient landscape. The 50-year-old construction contractor moved in with his brother, son, divorced daughter and their young kids — 11 people in…

Trailblazer Sally Azar is hoping that her role as the Holy Land's first Palestinian woman pastor will inspire other women to reach for influential positions in religious and political life. Wearing her clerical collar and with clasped hands before an altar at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in the…

Israel's drive to demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem is picking up pace

From house demolitions to military detention, the violence we Palestinians face daily reflects the power imbalance of occupier and occupied, says Jerusalem-based writer Jalal Abukhater

The Western Jerusalem municipality demanded that a Vatican-owned hotel, the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center, pay overdue city property taxes worth $5 million, and when it didn’t, it placed a lien on the institution’s bank accounts until it settles the payment. Religious institutions in Israel are exempt from paying property…

The Israeli army has raided a refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Jericho, besieging houses it said were being used as hideouts for Palestinian attackers and shooting at residents who opened fire

In the middle of last week, 13-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Aleiwat was pressing his teachers for the school report he needed so he could go to a Jerusalem college to train as a chef.