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Christians celebrate Easter this Sunday, marking the anniversary of the cornerstone belief of their faith that is as shocking of a claim today as it was 2,000 years ago: Jesus Christ was bodily resurrected from the grave following his death by crucifixion on Good Friday.

Hananya Ben Shimon, 23, an Israeli reservist fresh from military service in Gaza, shot and killed one of three Palestinian terrorists who had opened fire on civilians stuck in traffic on Thursday near Jerusalem, helping to stop the deadly attack.

Palestinian peace advocate Bassem Eid asserts that Israelis have historically offered peace while Palestinians have rejected these offers.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday evening, as both Jews and Muslims were participating in prayers, endangering the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rockets were intercepted and disabled by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, whose trails could be seen across the evening sky.

“Red Alert,” damaged by shrapnel during the October 7 attack, is a painting that, like Israel, finds new life even in tragedy, even after death.

Three heavily armed terrorist gunmen who attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, wounding six security forces, were killed as Israeli police fended them off, police have confirmed.

The streets of Israel’s capital city were eerily quiet on Friday afternoon — not just because of the approaching Sabbath, but because of the war that has seen soldiers and reservists called to the Gaza and Lebanon borders.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem, has offered to exchange himself for the Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unsurprisingly devoted much of his U.N. General Assembly address to denouncing the “Israeli occupation of our territory” and demanding more international pressure against Israel to make concessions.

An excavation project uncovered steps in Jerusalem where the Bible says Jesus healed a man who had been blind from the day he was born.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at Sky News, stating that Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are part of the Jewish “ancestral homeland” to which Jews have been attached for 3,000 years and the notion of banning Jews from settling in those areas is the true “obstacle to peace,” after the British news outlet attempted to depict the territories as “occupied” lands.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller struggled to explain the Biden administration’s stance on Israel when questioned by reporters.

The Biden administration rebuked Israel on Sunday as a Jewish political leader visited the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, to emphasize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem’s holy places, which are open to all.

The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has denounced a sharp rise in anti-Christian incidents in the Holy Land, including “attacks on holy sites, schools and even funeral processions.”

Christians worldwide observe Good Friday today, the day when Jesus Christ died upon a cross on a hill named Golgotha outside a gate in the wall at Jerusalem in Israel, in what Christians believe was a willing sacrifice to bring peace with God to billions across the centuries.

Palestinians desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, during the holy month of Ramadan this week by stockpiling weapons they intended to use to attack Jews praying at the Western Wall on Passover.

The Times of Israel has denounced growing anti-Christian violence in the Holy Land, some of which has been blamed on “Jewish extremists.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will ask his Italian counterpart to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital, prompting immediate backing from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

(AFP) – Olive oil, fragrant rose and orange blossom: the special “chrism” or holy anointing oil for the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III has been blessed in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Protesters across Israel on Wednesday took part in a national “Day of Disruption” against the government’s proposal for judicial reform, with police deploying tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades in an attempt to disperse the crowds blocking major highways and disrupting train services.

Videos of Palestinian kindergarten-aged children dressed up as jihadi terrorists and killing Israelis are making the rounds on TikTok, with scenes also showing the children carrying the “dead bodies” of “martyrs”.

More than 100,000 protesters gathered in Jerusalem and other cities in Israel on Monday to demonstrate against a controversial plan to overhaul Israel’s left-leaning judiciary.

CNN, The New York Times and the BBC covered a deadly attack in Jerusalem on Friday by omitting any reference to terrorism or a terrorist.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in Ramallah on Tuesday he mourned the “innocent Palestinian civilians” killed over the past year in the West Bank. Of the Palestinians killed, the overwhelming majority were terrorists – most of them while they were carrying out attacks.

Israel’s security cabinet approved measures to curb terrorism following deadly attacks in Jerusalem, including making it easier for Israeli civilians to carry guns and revoking residency and citizenship of terrorists.

The U.K. and Anglican Church have expressed dismay over an act of vandalism by two Jewish teenagers on a historic Protestant cemetery adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday.

An Arab Israeli man who was behind the deadly twin terror bombings in Jerusalem last month has been arrested, the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police said Tuesday.

Russia demanded on Sunday that Israel hand over ownership of three Jerusalem churches to Russia, claiming historical precedent.

Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas today, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who was born approximately 4 B.C. in the town of Bethlehem, five miles east of Jerusalem, in the nation of Israel.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Jerusalem must be a city for Israelis and Palestinians, and anything else will harm Israel’s identity and security.

Two Palestinian teenagers threatened an ultra-Orthodox man in Jerusalem’s Old City into bending down on his knees and kissing their feet, a viral video on TikTok showed.

A 16-year-old Canadian teenager was killed and 22 more were injured in twin explosions at two bus stops near different entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. Israeli authorities called the atrocities a double terrorist attack.

A U.S. Secret Service agent who was part of President Joe Biden’s security detail while he was visiting Israel in July is being sued for brutally assaulting an Israeli woman outside a bar in Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has apparently scrapped plans to look at moving Britain’s embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite previously claiming to support its recognition.

At least three police officers were wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack at the entrance to the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday morning, marking the fifth Palestinian terrorist assault in recent days.

Israel police on Sunday released bodycam footage of an officer neutralizing a Palestinian terrorist in a soccer field after he had stabbed an Israeli man in Jerusalem.