Ramadan

Israeli activist group decries 'aggressive policy on the Temple Mount' ahead of Ramadan

Ir Amim decried what it described as recent “violations” of the status quo, which, up until recently, banned Jewish people from praying at the site.

Jews visit the Temple Mount, the site where the First and Second Temples once stood. Holy to both Jews and Muslims, it has been a flashpoint since 1967.
Temple Mount

Temple Mount’s delicate balance tested as Jewish prayer, Ramadan crowds meet

 Muslim women walk, as Israeli settlers carry Israeli flags next to a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Cave of Patriarchs, on the day of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, in Hebron's Old City, in the West Bank March 15, 2024.

Israel boosts security ahead of Ramadan amid rise in Jewish nationalist crime in West Bank

Israeli security forces investigate a ramming attack in Hebron, December 6, 2025; illustrative.

Ramadan will show if clan clashes are really over, say Hebron residents


Will decision to block Jewish access to Temple Mount have political ramifications?

Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit silent on Netanyahu's closure of the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors

 Israeli security forces guard while Jews visit the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Passover holiday, April 10, 2023.

Israel's persecution of Palestinians is wrong and has to end - opinion

No moral human being can look at what we as Israelis are doing to the Palestinian people and not feel outrage.

 MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Israel is closer to war than calm, IDF intel warns government

Security tensions will not disappear at the end of Ramadan and an unusual response against terror organizations should be held off, intel suggests.

 Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit near the Israeli town of Shlomi, April 6, 2023

Netanyahu bans Jews from entering Temple Mount for rest of Ramadan

The decision was made despite relative calm on Temple Mount and despite National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's opposition.

 Israeli security forces guard while Jews visit the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Passover holiday, April 10, 2023

The tragic and bloody Passover and Ramadan that Hamas planned all along

Every Ramadan, we see an escalation at the Temple Mount and it continues to be misrepresented every year.

 THE IRON DOME anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza at the weekend, as seen from Ashkelon.

Hezbollah, Hamas heads meet, promise further 'resistance' against Israel

Ebrahim Raisi: "The crimes of the Zionist regime are a sign of weakness and are proof of a bright and promising future for the resistance movement."

 LEFT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah RIGHT: Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh

Grapevine April 9, 2023: Here come the brides

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SHAI ABRAMSON, in his days as IDF chief cantor.

Hundreds of Jews visit Temple Mount after Palestinian riots in al-Aqsa

Jews begin entering Temple Mount • Jordan warns of 'catastrophic consequences' if police remove Palestinians from mosque again

 Jewish worshipers are seen at the Temple Mount on April 9, 2023

Did Israel walk into another Tehran trap with current tensions? - analysis

In many ways, this looks like an Iranian script that was prepared with Hamas and with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.

 An aerial view of craters in the ground after Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City April 7, 2023.

Violent clashes erupt between police, Palestinians in al-Aqsa

Palestinians barricaded in al-Aqsa fired fireworks and threw stones at Israeli forces who entered the mosque to remove them.

 A Palestinian man prays as Israeli police gather during clashes at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount. May 7, 2021.