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New visitor center underway at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/Israel News A new 1,500-square-meter visitor education center is being built at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives to enhance security and educate visitors on its rich Jewish heritage, with completion expected by 2027. The Mount of Olives is home to the largest Jewish cemetery in Israel(photo credit: Kobi…

Lamentations 1:8-11 8Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away. 9Her uncleanness is in her skirts; She did not consider her destiny; Therefore her collapse was awesome; She had no comforter. “O Lord, behold my affliction, For the enemy is exalted!” 10The adversary has spread his…

Israel reports attack on bus in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City

Shooting on bus in flashpoint area leaves at least seven wounded, two of them critically, Israeli police say. Old City of occupied Jerusalem is home to some of the holiest sites in Islam, Judaism and Christianity. (AFP) Seven people have been wounded, two of them critically, after a shooting attack on a bus in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli police and the national emergency medical…

Israeli settlers take over home in Jerusalem’s Silwan

Occupied East Jerusalem – Israeli settlers from the Elad settler group have taken over a Palestinian home in the Silwan neighbourhood, south of the Old City of Jerusalem. The second-floor apartment, located in the Wadi al-Rababa area of Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, was home to Nidal Froukh and his family. His brother Bilal owns the property, having purchased it…

Demolitions begin in occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan

Violence erupted after the demolition of a Palestinian business by Israeli forces began in the al-Bustan area of the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan on Tuesday. Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers entered the Palestinian neighbourhood and destroyed a butcher’s shop in Silwan. Soldiers used tear gas and batons to push back residents and Palestinian activists as they carried…