Sheikh Jarrah

Petition seeks to block yeshiva project for foreign students on east Jerusalem public land

The petitioners also asked the court, sitting as an Administrative Affairs Court, to freeze the plan while it considers their challenge.

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of east Jerusalem, on November 17, 2025.
Israel begins dismantling UNRWA facility, January 20, 2026.

High Court to hear challenge to laws restricting UNRWA operations, claims of impact on population

 A look at Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Sheikh Jarrah: Land, legacy, and conflict in Jerusalem’s history

An Israeli border policeman scuffles with a Palestinian protester during clashes amid ongoing tension ahead of an upcoming court hearing in an Israeli-Palestinian land-ownership dispute in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem May 3, 2021.

Israeli officer charged for shooting sponge grenade at Sheikh Jarrah teen


Temple Mount, Sheikh Jarrah only smoke screens for Hamas's real incentive

All that the Palestinian terrorists, together with their Islamist backers, had been waiting for was an excuse, or a series of excuses, to provoke a fresh confrontation.

Saleh al-Arouri (L), Hamas deputy chief, meets with Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's National Security Council, in Tehran, Iran October 21, 2017.

Gaza conflict brings double trouble to Israel's tourism sector

Just a few weeks after the Israeli Tourism Ministry announced a multi-pronged plan to restart inbound tourism, rockets began firing from Gaza, slamming the industry so soon after the coronavirus.

Bomb-shelter, Ben-Gurion Airport

Prison guards granted the power to arrest civilians amid ongoing violence

The elite prison unite will be temporarily granted the power to detain, search, and arrest civilians until the violence across Israel is under control.

Public Security Minister Amir Ohana speaks to the Masada Unit ahead of their deployment across Israel in response to continued violence, May 15th 2021.

Jewish-Arab clashes are a victory for Hamas - opinion

The strife in Sheikh Jarrah has nothing to do with the ongoing war with Hamas, and is just a convenient excuse. But the world would have us believe it was all over the evictions in east Jerusalem.

This is Hamas’s victory image. Policemen stand near a burning police car during clashes with Arab rioters in the Arab-Jewish town of Lod this week.

Israel needs a new police chief - editorial

The violence in east Jerusalem and the Old City has been a disaster. And before that, another disaster occurred on Mount Meron. Police knew the dangers but were unable to do anything.

Israeli police seen on the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod, where last night synaogues and cars were torched as well as shops damaged, by Arab residents rioted in the city, and ongoing this evening. May 12, 2021.

Sheikh Jarrah families’ 50-year battle for homes

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: The street itself has become a known protest site, with police barricades at both ends and almost nightly clashes with police and at times between them and their Jewish neighbors

A JEW AND and Arab face off in Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday.

Jerusalem: A flashpoint for conflict or microcosm of peace? - opinion

There won’t Israeli-Palestinian peace unless east Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state while the city remains

A WOMAN PRAYS on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City, last Friday.

The Sheikh Jarrah dispute through the lens of Jewish values - opinion

Implementing justice feels so right when a wrong is being corrected and or is being punished.

RELIGIOUS ZIONIST Party head Bezalel Smotrich and party members visit the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Monday.

Sheikh Jarrah, Shimon Hatzadik: A tale of two gravesites in Jerusalem

The current dispute surrounding the Sheikh Jarrah area has deep roots, stretching back to the first years of Arab and Jewish settlement outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, in the 19th century.

Security forces clash with protesters during a protest against a visit of right wing politicians and against Israel’s plan to demolish some houses of Palestinians in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 10, 2021

Israel under attack amid escalation - in photos

As Gaza fires rocket after rocket into Israeli territory, Israelis along the border and in Jerusalem run for cover amid escalations in the Temple Mount and Sheikh Jarrah.

Israelis take cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip, during Jerusalem day, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021.