This speech by Nadia Matar, Chairperson, Women in Green, at the Tisha B’Av Evening Walk around the Old City Walls of Jerusalem was delivered in Hebrew. The following is an English translation thereof. Return the Israeli Flag to the Temple Mount! On June 7, 1967, our paratroopers broke through the Lions’ Gate, and liberated the [...]

Another moving ceremony marking yet the latest stage in reclaiming Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem was held yesterday in the area known as the Yemenite Village. Located near the City of David, below and just to the southeast of the Temple Mount, the area was home to many Jewish families, mostly from Yemen, from the 1880′s [...]

The Moslem Waqf is now beginning to take control not only over the Temple Mount, but also over areas adjacent to it. So says Nadav Shragai, author of a book on the topic of the struggle over the Mount. Shragai told Arutz-7 yesterday that the Muslims are expanding the cemetery outside the eastern wall of [...]

The Knesset Interior Committee met today to discuss the destruction of gravestones, the dumping of garbage and the building of illegal Arab structures upon Jewish graves on Har HaZeitim (the Mount of Olives). Arutz 7s Haggai Seri-Levi reports that the Interior Committee heard reports from representatives of the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Service), Jerusalem municipality [...]

Even as work continues on a concrete wall dividing Jerusalem, tireless efforts continue to build a “live Jewish wall” to “secure the city’s unity.” The reference is to budding Jewish neighborhoods in areas of the capital that are currently populated by Arabs, but are in reality on Jewish-owned land. Organizations such as Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim [...]

Through clandestine means, the Committee for the Renewal of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem’s Shiloach neighborhood purchased a six-and-a-half floor building located among the homes of Shiloach, predominantly an Arab-populated area. Through clandestine means, the Committee for the Renewal of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem’s Shiloach neighborhood (also known as the Yemenite Village) purchased a [...]

Gilo is a sprawling neighborhood in southern Jerusalem purchased by Jews before World War II. Most of Gilo’s residents are professionals employed in the fields of health, education and services. A few are business people. The neighborhood’s rabbis teach in well-known Torah instutions in the city. Its residents were looking forward to Wednesday June 19, [...]

The Temple Mount and the Western Wall saw several Heaven-entreating events yesterday and last night, as the People of Israel continue to manifest the connection between their ages-old faith and the current political climate. The Temple Mount and the Western Wall saw several Heaven-entreating events yesterday and last night, as the People of Israel continue [...]

Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the Temple Mount, the Western Wall Plaza and the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem – continues to flourish, some 2,800 years after its founding. Members of the Elad Association, which has settled the area with 26 Jewish families in [...]

Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the Temple Mount, the Western Wall Plaza and the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem – continues to flourish, some 2,750 years after its founding. Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the [...]