Hizma

The Jerusalem Municipality’s Local Planning and Construction Committee on Monday authorized the construction of 40 new apartments in the city’s…

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…

Three Palestinian men disguised as haredi Jews were arrested at Jerusalem's Hizme security checkpoint on Monday night. An initial investigation…

Ten Palestinians, crushed into the back of a minivan, were caughttrying to infiltrate into Israel on Sunday via the Hizme Crossing in east…

While recent rioting in and around Jerusalem's Old City has left religious tensions between the capital's Muslims and Jews simmering, a new dispute -…

The heavy security around Jerusalem in the wake of the recent Arab riots appeared to get a little bit out of hand on Thursday when Al-Jazeera's…

Although Kadima has presented itself as the party that is prepared to heal the increasingly troubled US-Israel relationship, the Obama administration…

On a recent sunny morning on Rehov Hatenufa - a main artery through Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial area - six police officers stood outside a…

Two policemen were wounded Saturday - one moderately and the other lightly - after being hit by a Palestinian car at the Hizme checkpoint near…

Two traffic police officers were injured on Saturday morning when a Palestinian taxi driver rammed his vehicle into them at a checkpoint north of…

IDF soldiers shot a Palestinian man dead and lightly wounded a second after the pair threw firebombs at homes in Beit-El, north of Ramallah, on…

A Palestinian was lightly wounded early Thursday morning when he was shot by a soldier in a clash at a military checkpoint near Hizma, in the…

Tension remained high in the Gush Etzion settlement of Bat Ayin on Thursday as the IDF retained a reinforced presence in the area after 16…

A 60-year-old man was killed as his car crashed into a bus on Jerusalem's Eshkol Boulevard on Monday afternoon. Emergency medical teams that arrived…

Three years ago, privately owned garbage trucks from west Jerusalem began dumping their loads in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Dahiyat a-Salam…

'In my parents' view, I'm stupid," says Sami Backleh, an articulate 28-year-old with two science degrees under his belt who spends most of his time…

Mayor Benny Kashriel sits in his office on the top floor of City Hall in Ma'aleh Adumim. His window looks out over one of the many flower-lined…

Driving from the Adam settlement, a long line of cars curves from the Hizme checkpoint. "What's going on?" I ask a taxi driver beside me. "The…

An Israeli vehicle was damaged on Thursday when it was pelted with stones thrown by Palestinians next to Hizma, southeast of Ramallah. No one was…

IDF forces arrested 25 wanted Palestinians early Monday in the West Bank. In the house in which one of the wanted people was hidden in Kfar Hizma, a…