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Arab MK violates Temple Mount visitation ban, PM says move inflames tension (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Arab Member of Knesset Basel Ghattas (Joint Arab List) decided to visit the Temple Mount on Wednesday, violating a ban on visitation for Israeli lawmakers and declaring that “neither [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu nor the powers of the occupation

By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — The quarter million Palestinians in the current boundaries of East  Jerusalem cannot vote in the national elections, because they are not  the citizens of the state of Israel. They are permanent residents of Jerusalem who have the right to vote in the Jerusalem municipal elections. The majority

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin was murdered twenty years ago not by a fanatical Palestinian foe but by an ostensibly pious and patriotic Jew. Though it’s not possible to speculate about what Israel would be today had Rabin stayed alive, it is possible to suggest that the murderer, Yigal Amir, changed the

American-Israeli victim of Jerusalem bus attack succumbs to his wounds (JNS.org) An American-Israeli man who was critically wounded in a Jerusalem terrorist attack two weeks ago died Tuesday morning. Richard Lakin, 76, is the third victim of the attack, in which two Arab terrorists boarded a bus traveling between the capital’s Jewish neighborhood of Armon

  Morgan Freeman visits Western Wall for National Geographic’s ‘Story of God’ (JNS.org) Beloved Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman arrived in Israel for a surprise visit this week as part of a television series he is filming for National Geographic. The Oscar winner visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, escorted by Western