This is the Forward’s coverage of Jerusalem, the holiest city in Judaism and the capital of Israel.
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Israel News Jerusalem Passport Case Is Clash Between Congress and White House Powers
(JTA) — A lawyer for a boy born in Jerusalem whose parents want Israel listed as the birthplace on his U.S. passport tried mightily this week to make a Supreme Court hearing mainly about their wish, but the justices kept upping the ante. That might mean bad news not just for 12-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky and his…
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Fast Forward Israel Demolishes Palestinian Homes in Flashpoint East Jerusalem Neighborhood
Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes on Tuesday in an East Jerusalem neighborhood that has been at the heart of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters, a move likely to exacerbate weeks of tension in the holy city. Authorities knocked down the buildings near the district of Abu Tor, southeast of the Old City,…
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Fast Forward Plans for Hundreds of East Jerusalem Apartments Get City Backing
A Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of hundreds of apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem. On Monday, the city’s District Planning and Building Committee backed the building of 500 apartments in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The plan is reported to be in response to Palestinian violence in Jerusalem in recent months. The…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes 500 Settler Homes in East Jerusalem
An Israeli government committee on Monday advanced plans for 500 settler homes in East Jerusalem, an official said, in the face of disapproval from the United States at construction on occupied Palestinian land. The Interior Ministry panel’s preliminary approval of the new homes for Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood built on West Bank territory captured in…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Passport Case Divides Supreme Court
(Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided on Monday as it considered whether Congress overstepped its authority in passing a law designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports. Congress passed the law in 2002 but the government has never enforced it. Seeking to…
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Israel News A Tale of Two American Tragedies
In October, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed two American citizens over just three days. Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and 14-year-old Orwa Hammad were born in Jerusalem and Ramallah, respectively, but both held citizenship in the United States. Chaya’s parents were American Jews who immigrated to Israel. Orwa’s parents were Palestinian Muslims who immigrated to the United…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Calls for Temple Mount Calm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday urged lawmakers to show restraint over Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, which has been at the heart of rising tension with the Palestinians in recent weeks. Daily clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the streets of East Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa compound, known to Jews as the Temple…
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Fast Forward Temple Mount Activist Yehuda Glick Recovering After Shooting
Health officials said the condition of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, the activist seriously wounded in a suspected terrorist shooting, is improving. Glick’s medical condition improved slightly on Thursday, a day after the dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who advocates for an increased Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem was shot three times in the chest and stomach by an…
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