Al-Walaja

Looking for a unique holiday destination, something exotic, inexpensive, close to home and not yet inundated by Israelis? I’ve discovered just the…

It’s been said that everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it. Well, seven years of drought in the Holy Land has been so…

The village council of Walaja, a Palestinian community located on the southwestern edge of Jerusalem, appears to have failed on Monday in a last…

Who says dreams don’t come true? At least as far as “green” dreams are concerned, it seems that Jerusalem, a city that itself figures in so many…

Ahmad Barghouth looks down from his balcony at the bulldozer flattening a path around the edge of his fruit tree grove. “There goes another almond…

This past Rosh Hodesh Av, I was at Jerusalem’s Malha mall enjoying my last chicken sandwich before the nine days. Afterward, I exited into the mall…

A man gone astray Sir, – Regarding your lead article “Tzahi Hanegbi: Verdict ‘ruled out criminality’” (July 14), Hanegbi was not acquitted. He was…

Construction has begun on a new section of the West Bank security barrier that Palestinians say could sound a death knell for their hamlet. The…

The Judean hills south of Jerusalem might be the setting for an act of human solidarity yet to be seen in these parts, as settler groups hope to join…

Not one country in the world recognizes our capital, Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel. Even the United States footnotes the following on the State…

An Israeli man was lightly wounded Wednesday when his vehicle was pelted with stones near Walaja, between Jerusalem and Beit Jala. He was treated at…

'Why would you think I'm a settler?" asked Etti Hason, a black-haired mother of three who stood by the sink in her new kitchen in Har Gilo, located a…

In less than a week, Israel will go to the polls to vote. For the residents of Jerusalem, it might seem like déjà vu, coming some four months after…

A man was moderately wounded overnight Tuesday when he was stabbed on the Walaja bypass road that links Gush Etzion to Jerusalem. An MDA team…

Not long after the No. 14 bus leaves the tree-lined Rehov Emek Refaim, it begins to climb the hill paving the way to Har Homa, the controversial…

Palestinians have a hidden history of appreciating Israel that contrasts with their better-known narrative of vilification and irredentism. The…

Renewed international condemnation of a plan to build more than 300 homes in the southeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa was brushed off…

In mid-October, five weeks before thescheduled Annapolis peace parley, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, inviting the wrath of the right, hinted that he…

For 60 years Palestinian and Arab leaders have been lying to their people. Creating and sustaining the lie that the Palestinian refugees of 1948…

'Trim' JerusalemSir, - The issue is not whether to divide Jerusalem, but whether to trim it. The post-Six Day War municipal boundaries were too…