The Battle For Jerusalem : Throughline Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to control it. And that struggle goes back centuries.

The Battle for Jerusalem. 16 minute read. An observant Jewish man visits the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, which both Muslims and Jews consider sacred. Kobi Wolf. By Ilene Prusher / Jerusalem.

THE EDITORS of the English-language Jerusalem Post, the only daily published in the capital, were old hands at getting out a newspaper under adverse conditions.The building was blown up by a bomb ...

The Battle for Jerusalem Begins Plans are afoot to put Jerusalem on the table as PM Olmert hurtles toward a “joint declaration” with the PA ahead of next month’s Mideast summit.

At noon on 11 December 1917, British commander General Allenby marched in to Jerusalem after overthrowing the Ottoman Empire and becoming the first Christian to control the Holy City in 730 years ...

The White House is threatening to unilaterally impose the opening of a U.S. consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, regardless of Israel’s fierce opposition to the move, as well as allowing a PLO o ...

To win the battle for Jerusalem, Israel must dismantle the P.A.’s security forces and the notion that they are moderates, or that they aren’t fighting for Jerusalem.

In 1176, Baldwin IV, the Leper King of Jerusalem, turned fifteen, and fully assumed ... Both of these great rulers would meet in combat in 1177 at the Battle of Montigsard, one of the greatest ...

Let the massacre of the rabbis in Israel serve as a wake-up call to the new Congress that will be seated in Washington come January. May the solons assert their powers as our enemies gird for the n… ...

What was it like fighting for Jerusalem six decades ago?

There’s a battle going on for the soul of Jerusalem. On one side of the battle is First Station, the refurbished, formerly abandoned, old Jerusalem train station, which was converted into an ...

For people like Carol, Walter and Robin, Jerusalem is place that continues to feature in the news - but for them and many others it's a place that holds memories of those who served.