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Fast Forward UNESCO Chief Slams Plan To Name Western Wall ‘Muslim’ Site
The head of the United Nations cultural agency said she “deplores” a proposal under discussion by the agency’s executive board that would declare the Western Wall a Muslim holy site. Irina Bokova, the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, called on the board to “take decisions that do not…
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Fast Forward UNESCO Will Vote on Plan To Declare Western Wall a Muslim Site
A Palestinian effort to have a United Nations agency declare Judaism’s holiest site a Muslim holy site is “an attempt to distort history,” Israel said. UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural body, is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposal concerning the Western Wall in Jerusalem. In a statement Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the proposal “an…
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Fast Forward Israel Erects Concrete Wall Between Jerusalem’s Arab and Jewish Neighborhoods
Israel began erecting a portable concrete security wall between Arab and Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. The fence was erected Sunday between the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber and the Jewish neighborhood of East Talpiot because of Arab youths throwing rocks and firebombs. The concrete blocks resemble part of the West Bank security barrier. East…
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Fast Forward Israel Objects to International Presence on Temple Mount
Israel on Friday rejected a Palestinian appeal for an international protection force for the al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, saying the status quo was the only way to ensure stability in the region. The new Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, spoke to reporters ahead of a special meeting of the United…
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News The Jerusalem Street at the Epicenter of the Violence
Like so many places in this divided city, the street where several recent terrorist stabbings have taken place in Jerusalem’s Old City goes by two names. To Jews, it is HaGai Street, and to Palestinians, it’s Al Wad. In English, it’s the Valley. Over its 2,000-year existence, countless people have walked the street’s pale brown…
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Fast Forward Israel Erects East Jerusalem Roadblocks in Crackdown
Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the country on Wednesday to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks. In the latest incident, a Palestinian stabbed and moderately wounded a 70-year-old woman outside Jerusalem’s central bus station, at the entrance to the city, before an officer shot…
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Fast Forward Where West and Jerusalem Meet, Uneasy Calm Reigns — for Now
In the narrow corners of Jerusalem, where Jewish neighborhoods abut Palestinian ones, apprehension ran deep on Wednesday as Israel authorized the police to block access from Arab areas after a two-week wave of violence. The hilly backstreets that twist around the eastern, predominantly Arab half of the city were quieter than normal, as were the…
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Fast Forward 13-Year-Old Israeli Boy Stabbed While Riding Bicycle — Palestinian Teen Killed
A 13-year-old Israeli boy riding his bike was critically injured in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem allegedly by 13- and 15-year-old Palestinian assailants. The teen and a second victim, in his early to mid-20s, are in serious condition following the Monday afternoon attack in the northern Jerusalem community of Pisgat Zeev, Israel Police reported. The…
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