Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong issued a statement condemning Friday's synagogue attack in Jerusalem just hours before another shooting rocked the city.
Israel's Supreme Court upheld a long-standing expulsion order against eight of the 12 Palestinian hamlets forming Masafer Yatta — potentially leaving at least 1,000 people homeless.
The biblical town of Bethlehem marked its second straight Christmas Eve under the shadow of the coronavirus — with small crowds and gray, gloomy weather dampening celebrations Friday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus
A former ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he would seek to form a coalition government with the Israeli leader's opponents, taking a major step toward ending the rule of the longtime leader.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on last week's Gaza ceasefire.
Israeli medics said at least two people were killed and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue yesterday, the eve of a major Jewish holiday.
Israeli police have clashed with Palestinian protesters outside Jerusalem's Old City during the holiest night of Ramadan in a show of force that threatens to deepen the holy city's worst religious unrest in several years.
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis on Sunday thronged the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country's ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic.
Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque — believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam — during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.
Christians have celebrated the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus' manger nearly 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope.
The head of the Palestinian delegation in Canberra has said if Scott Morrison moves Australia's embassy to Jerusalem, it could 'destroy peace in the Middle East'.
Labor's shadow foreign minister has called on Scott Morrison to admit he has "made a mistake" and to walk away from any thought of moving the Israel embassy.
The Prime Minister denied Australia's relationships overseas have been damaged by his decision to consider recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Israel's transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem's Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims — and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump.
Guatemala's president announced on Christmas Eve that the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, becoming the first nation to follow the lead of US President Donald Trump in ordering the change.
The UN General Assembly voted 128-9 with 35 abstentions on Thursday in favour of a nonbinding resolution declaring President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void," a smaller margin than the Palestinians hoped for but also a rebuke to the Trump administration which is threatening to cut funding for those who voted "yes."
The United States vetoed a resolution supported by the 14 other U.N. Security Council members that would have required President Donald Trump to rescind his declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a vote that showed the depth of global opposition to the US move.
The human race could struggle to pro-create future generations according to a researcher who has revealed dwindling sperm counts in men across the globe.
Three Arab-Israeli gunmen have opened fire at police near Jerusalem's holiest site, killling two Israeli policemen before security forces killed the attackers.