Drawn by historical sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and Tel Aviv's white sandy beaches, some three million tourists flocked to Israel in the first nine months of this year, according to the ...

Cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s separation wall and by a string of settlements, Bethlehem is isolated. Jewish settlers in the Arab eastern side of the old city of Jerusalem are only about a ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — In the little town of Bethlehem, Christmas this year is barely a whisper. Palestinian scouts paraded ...

Bethlehem resident Taly Nassar crossed an Israeli checkpoint every day to work at a store in Jerusalem. Her husband, a construction worker, did the same. “In Israel we earn double, sometimes ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel ... of Bethlehem was.’ It came to pass in the 1980s, in a Jerusalem sukkah ...

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem’s visit to Gaza came as Pope Francis again criticised Israel’s actions in ... tourism for the historical city of Bethlehem. The yearly religious celebration ...

There will be no Christmas lights in Bethlehem this ... to sign a peace treaty with Israel, in 1994. The Hashemite kingdom has guarded its role as custodian of Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Nativity ... There are about 182,000 in Israel, 50,000 in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 1,300 in Gaza, according to the U.S. State Department. Father Issa Thaljieh ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem – a 2 700-year-old seal with the name of Jesus’ ...

The Czech Republic will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem "at the right moment", Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday, cooling the likelihood of a near-term move that the government had ...

Meanwhile, an Israeli-built wall partially encircles Bethlehem, cutting it off from Jerusalem and stifling homebuilding and urban growth. Israel says the wall is a necessary security measure to ...