Category: 1. Israel

Scores of leaders from across the arts and cultural sector, including celebrated Dames Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Joanna Lumley and Meera Syal, have lent their names to a campaign urging a popular online platform to join them…

MK Uri Lupolianski, the founder of the Yad Sarah volunteer organization and mayor of former Jerusalem, died Wednesday at the age of 74. His funeral will take place today on Thursday in Jerusalem.

Lupolianski was born in 1951 in Haifa. He was…

An IDF soldier who posted a video of himself firing a volley of shots at Gaza received a sentence of 20 days in prison on Wednesday, the Kan public broadcaster reported.

The report said the Israel Defense Forces would weigh whether he can…

Gaza City is home to landmarks such as the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the Great Mosque and Gaza’s al-Zawiya and gold markets.

These landmarks testify to Gaza’s archaeological history, religious significance and commercial heritage.

But…

Demonstrations over economic conditions broke out in Kurdish regions of Iran on Wednesday despite authorities using violence to try to disperse protests before an announced general strike, according to witnesses and rights groups.

Protesters took…

The Construction and Housing Ministry has issued a tender for 3,401 housing units in the 12-square-kilometer E1 area in the West Bank just east of Jerusalem, under controversial plans which will sever the northern and southern West Bank, damaging…