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Chernobyl Children to Arrive in Israel

JERUSALEM -- Early Thursday, a plane carrying 25 children from the Chernobyl area will touch down in Israel, where the children will begin their new lives. The airlift comes the same week as the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear disaster in modern history. The children, between the age of 6 and...

Israel's Foreign Minister Told He Will Be Indicted for Fraud

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli attorney general today told Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that, pending a hearing, he will be indicted for fraud, money laundering and witness-tampering, a move that could eventually bring the collapse of the government. Lieberman faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted. The draft...

Did Journalist Find 'THE Nails' Used to Crucify Jesus?

JERUSALEM -- Controversial journalist Simcha Jacobovici says he may have found the nails that were used to crucify Jesus more than 2,000 years ago. He chronicled his Indiana Jones-type search in a new documentary called "The Nails of the Cross," which was screened today at a news conference in Jerusalem and will be...

Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement,...

Israel Panel Approving New East Jerusalem Building

JERUSALEM -- Jerusalem officials on Monday gave preliminary approval for the building of 942 new apartments in a Jewish development in the city's contested eastern sector, threatening to create new friction ahead of the Israeli president's White House visit. Although it would take years before construction starts, the...

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Religious Pilgrimages: 14 Of The World's Most Spiritual Destinations

At approximately 20 millions visits a year, the Ganga is the first in our top ten most popular pilgrimage sites.

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Church Of The Holy Sepulchre Comes Alive At Night In Jerusalem

After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites.

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Ancient Bethlehem Seal Unearthed In Jerusalem

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem â a 2,700 years old seal with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.

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Jerusalem Divided: Ehud Olmert, Former Israel PM, Says City Must Be Partitioned

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.

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Robert Orlando: A Polite Bribe: Paul's Final Journey To Jerusalem

Headed for Judea, in 58 A.D., Paul begs the church in Rome to pray that the "unbelievers" (non Christian Jews) do not assassinate him and that the Jewish Christians accept his collection of gold.

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06/03/12 Shavuot Music & Torah on Mount Zion in Jerusalem Source: Arutz Sheva Hundreds camped out on Mount Zion in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish festival of Shavuot.
06/03/12 Jerusalem markets itself virtually Source: Gant Daily - Clearfield PA The Jerusalem municipality, through The Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA), has pumped in some NIS 2 million ($520,000) for the development of the site, aimed at slashing red tape and offering incoming tourists the best deals and the widest range of opportunities to visit Jerusalem from all corners of the globe, Ilanit Melchior, tourism director of the JDA told The Media Line. "The foreign media does a bad job for Jerusalem," said Amos Fridlin, head of marketing for Ben Ben Group.
06/03/12 Pilgrimage: 14 Of The World's Most Popular Spiritual... Source: Huffington Post Latino Voices At approximately 20 millions visits a year, the Ganga is the first in our top ten most popular pilgrimage sites.
06/03/12 The Week in Flubbed Photos, Captions Source: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) The last few days have produced several sloppy and erroneous photo captions and incorrect photo selections.
06/02/12 Thousands kick off social justice protests Source: Jerusalem Post - Israel Social justice protests began in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem on Saturday night, the official kick-off for what organizers hope will be another summer of massive protests.