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Tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists march for Jerusalem Day

4:10pm June 06, 2024

by Kat Lonsdorf

The annual march, part of Jerusalem Day, a national holiday, regularly inflames Israeli-Palestinian tensions. This year those tensions were even higher because of the war in Gaza.

Christians hold a candlelight procession in Jerusalem outside the Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of Gethsemane, on March 28. This year, Easter, Purim and Ramadan overlapped for the first time in three decades.

Photos: Jerusalem's sacred crossroads endures in a time of war

11:27am April 21, 2024

by Ayman Oghanna

The convergence of three Christian, Muslim and Jewish holidays this spring led to fears of violence. But the city central to these major religions has remained largely peaceful.

Palestinian women pray outside the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on April 3.

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Tension at Al-Aqsa Mosque is deepening with each day of the Israel-Hamas war

8:14am April 10, 2024

by Fatma Tanis

Friction between Palestinians, Jewish activists and police over Jerusalem's religious sites are a flashpoint of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The war in Gaza has brought the tensions to the fore.

Muslims walk next to the Dome of Rock Mosque at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 10, 2024.

As Ramadan begins, uncertainty and anxiety surround the Al-Aqsa mosque

5:12am March 11, 2024

by Fatma Tanis

Questions remain about access to the main Islamic congregational mosque in the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City as Palestinians see the site as essential to their identity.

The Hand in Hand Jerusalem school principal Efrat Meyer, who is Jewish, and vice principal Engie Wattad, who is Arab Muslim, are longtime colleagues and friends. The school is mixed and bilingual.

A school in Jerusalem brings Arab and Jewish kids together to boost understanding

10:29am January 23, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

Jewish and Arab children learn alongside each other at the Hand in Hand school. They're taught in Hebrew and Arabic, in a program unusual in Israel for integrating students of different backgrounds.

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Itay Levy makes music and Kinnors — intricately-carved wooden harps.

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In the shops of Jerusalem, empty seats and anguished hearts are all that's left

10:16am November 11, 2023

The Old City of Jerusalem is thousands of years old. People from all over the world travel here to see the expansive history and the foundation of religions and empires — until now.

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Israeli security forces and emergency service personnel gather at a cordoned-off area in Jerusalem's predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, where police say an assailant shot and wounded two people on Saturday.

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A 13-year-old Palestinian wounded 2 people in an attack in East Jerusalem, police say

7:22am January 28, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

The attack on Saturday morning comes just a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside of a synagogue in Jerusalem at the start of the Jewish sabbath, killing seven people.

Israeli emergency service personnel and security forces stand near a covered body at the site of a reported attack in Jerusalem on Friday.

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At least 7 people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue shooting

6:00pm January 27, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

Israeli police say they shot and killed the gunman. The State Department condemned the "absolutely horrific" attack.

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Israeli police inspect the scene of an explosion Wednesday at a bus stop in Jerusalem.

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Twin blasts near bus stops shake Jerusalem, killing a teen and hurting 18 other people

9:48am November 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been surging for months, amid nightly raids in the West Bank prompted by a spate of attacks against Israelis that killed 19 people in the spring.

Israeli police crime scene investigators work at the scene of a shooting attack that wounded several Israelis near the Old City of Jerusalem, early Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.

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Palestinian gunman wounds 8 in late-night Jerusalem shooting

5:25am August 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in an attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza.