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 ...

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 ...

The Old City of Jerusalem is thousands of years old. People from all over the world travel here to see the expansive history and the foundation of religions and empires — until now.

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.

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

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 ...

JERUSALEM -- It's a far cry from the usual hustle and bustle, so typical of Jerusalem's Old City. The steps of the Damascus Gate have been cleared out. Gone are the fruit and sumac vendors.

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 ...

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. REUTERS/Nir Elias ...

Britain’s advertising watchdog has banned an Israeli government tourism ad for showing the Old City of Jerusalem. The ad inserted in British newspapers showed a view of the Old City of Jerusalem ...