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.

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.

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

Knesset lawmakers slam the police over the closure of the Old City of Jerusalem to nonresidents during a hearing in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. Following the outbreak of ...

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 ...

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 ...