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Not in the traditional sense that the people disappeared or that buildings were left to fall into ruin, but in the sense that a purpose was lost, swallowed by something much bigger, and an identity ...
There are eight gates - seven are open and one is sealed - along the Old City walls that were built in the 16th century by Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
He'd made a few trips to the Old City since Oct. 7, he said, but not many. For him, it's a place of work more than a place of worship. Hollander misses the income, of course (a half-day tour is a ...
Spectator Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (London, UK, Profile Books, 2022, 385 ...
The sun was shining over the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City this afternoon, but as Ramadan began with no cease-fire in sight, the war in Gaza cast a heavy shadow over the start to the holy month.
To understand this conflict and its implications, it is helpful to go back to the origins of the Armenian community in Jerusalem’s Old City and its unique position. Located in the southwest quadrant ...
A woman in Jerusalem’s Old City was attacked by a man with an axe in her home on Wednesday evening, police and medics said, with authorities probing the nature of the incident.
JERUSALEM — On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity. Nearly half of the grotto-shaped gift shops are sealed behind ...
Rare 2,300-year-old gold ring discovered in Jerusalem's City of David Find shows 'affirmation of life in Jerusalem from thousands of years ago' By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News.
The sun was shining over the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City this afternoon, but as Ramadan began with no cease-fire in sight, the war in Gaza cast a heavy shadow over the start to the holy month.