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 ...

A fraction of the usual crowd. Jason Fields 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.

Israel views all of Jerusalem, including the walled Old City that it captured in the 1967 Middle East war, as its "eternal and indivisible" capital. Pictured: Golden Gate.

Spectator Matthew Teller’s Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City (London, UK, Profile Books, 2022, 385 ...

Following the outbreak of war with Iran, Israeli authorities have kept the Old City closed to nonresidents as a precautionary measure, with police officers deployed at its gates to check the ...

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.

Established in 1874, Mea She’arim was one of the first neighborhoods outside the Old City’s stone walls. The strict Orthodox Hasidic Jews dress in heavy black coats, the women stroll with long ...

A real estate deal in Jerusalem's Old City, at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has sent the historic Armenian community there into a panic as residents search for answers about ...