Abu Dis

The Jerusalem Municipality restored almost all of last week’s cuts to its welfare, education, culture, sports and urban improvement budgets,…

Jerusalem’s welfare, education, culture, sports and urban improvement budgets are to be cut 25%, Mayor Nir Barkat announced on Wednesday, following…

Driving east from Jerusalem on the winding Jordanian-built road that once led down from the Mount of Olives to the Dead Sea, one passes through a…

In his failed campaign for the mayoral elections of 2003, Nir Barkat published a poster depicting himself as the “lonely rider,” which was more than…

DESPITE THE STALLED peace process, Ahmed Qurei (known by his nom de guerre, Abu Ala) still believes in a twostate solution. There’s no choice, he…

MICKEY MOUSE, MINNIE Mouse and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad walked through a sea of squealing children in Jericho’s main square…

Signs of Eli Yishai’s fealty to his Shas party’s spiritual leader, the 89-year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, abound in the offices of the minister of the…

What should one think about a Muslim Imam who encourages Israeli settlers to go on building? A leader of Italian Muslims who doubts the Palestinians’…

Driving down the block where he lives with his wife and children in Pisgat Ze’ev, one of the giant Jewish neighborhoods built over the Green Line in…

As part of a series of steps announced by the IDF on Sunday to ease Palestinian traffic in the West Bank, the Keidar road south of Ma’aleh Adumim was…

On May 12, 1968, the government announced that the 28th of the Jewish month of Iyar, the day in 1967 that the Western Wall was liberated, would…

With Mahmoud Abbas now seeking Arab League approval for the launch of indirect “proximity” talks with Israel, we are belatedly back to where things…

On the face of it, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s interview with Channel 2 last night represented a fairly banal outing. Israel wanted to avoid…

Some cabinet members are heard from constantly – either because they have significant ministries (Gideon Sa’ar in education), or because they push…

The current spotlight on Jerusalem construction projects over the Green Line has changed the paradigm for groups like Ateret Cohanim, which actively…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reached understandings with US President Barack Obama regarding continued construction in east Jerusalem,…

Just as east Jerusalem violence appeared to have subsided, an Israelipoliceman was lightly wounded on Tuesday evening when he was shot in the hand in…

To build or not to build?This week has provided us with an exciting development around the Beit Yehonatan issue. The building, acquired by Jewish…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in Moscow on Thursday that the Palestinians will not accept Abu Dis, a town between Jerusalem and…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in Moscow on Thursday that the Palestinians will not accept Abu Dis, a town between Jerusalem and…