The Latest Breaking News from Jerusalem

Liz Truss could follow Trump and move UK embassy to Jerusalem

PM considering breaking with decades of British foreign policy by relocating UK embassy in Israel

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

Hamas threatens violence over contested Jerusalem holy site

The Palestinian militant group Hamas is threatening hostile actions against Israel over what it called “violations against Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque” ahead of the upcoming Jewish High Holidays

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022

PM Truss weighs UK embassy move in Israel to Jerusalem

Media reports say Truss informed Israeli PM Yair Lapid at the United Nations she is considering the embassy shift.

Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2022

Opium dating back to 14th century BC found in ancient grave site in Israel

Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of the drug.

Reuters · Sep 20, 2022

Palestinian schools in Jerusalem strike over Israel-imposed books

Hundreds of Palestinian schools strike in protest at Israeli efforts to censor Palestinian textbooks.

Al Jazeera · Sep 19, 2022

Settler High-rises Risk 'Palestinian Island' In Jerusalem

From his home in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, Palestinian Farid Salman enjoys a clear, unobstructed view of the city, but new residential tower blocs for Jewish settlers could box him in. Salman lives in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa where Israeli authorities recently granted pre-approval for 700 settler homes in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 15, 2022

Palestinian man left beaten, bloodied by Israeli police

An amateur video shows a Palestinian man lying face down, bloody and unconscious, as an Israeli policeman kneels on his neck

The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2022

Mysterious Dead Sea Scroll thought to be lost to history turns up over 6,000 miles away

After an extensive search the fragment was eventually found in the US state of Montana, where its owner explained that his mother had received it as a gift while visiting Jerusalem in 1965

Daily Mirror · Sep 8, 2022

Israel Unveils ‘Extremely Rare’ Iron Age Papyrus Note

Israel's Antiquities Authority displayed Wednesday a rare papyrus note in ancient Hebrew dating back 2,700 years, recently brought back to Jerusalem after its chance discovery in the United States. The letter fragment, written in the Palaeo-Hebrew used during the First Temple era, constitutes four lines beginning "To Ishmael send", with…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 8, 2022

Israel acquires papyrus with Hebrew inscription from Montana

The Israel Antiquities Authority says it's acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in the possession of a Montana resident

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022