Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed this week that Jerusalem is an "open city" that permits all its inhabitants, Jewish and Palestinian, to purchase homes in both its eastern and western parts.
An examination by Haaretz, however, presented a rather different situation on the ground. According to Israel Lands Administration rules, residents of East Jerusalem cannot take ownership of the vast majority of Jerusalem homes.



Until last week, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was the Israeli army’s top lawyer. Now she is...
Texas judges who decline to perform a wedding based on “sincerely held” religious views, such as...
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said that the Higher Planning Council will approve the...
A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in...





























