If we just extend this argument to The Mount of Olives cemetery—overlooking the most disputed real estate in the world, the Old City of Jerusalem—then why must Israel defend the right to ...

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A few weeks ago, Israel gave the Vatican sovereignity over David’s tomb, where some believe Jewish kings of Judea are buried. But the most unknown story is about the Mount of Olives cemetery ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit graves at the cemetery on the Mount of Olives, September 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) More than 40 graves were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

The Mount of Olives cemetery was vandalized overnight Wednesday, with gravestones smashed and trees and bushes set ablaze. Firefighters extinguished the flames, and police were seeking the ...

When Israel recaptured the Mount of Olives in 1967 ... "On the Mount of Olives, we have a cemetery that is undoubtedly important to the Jewish people, but we also have a battle over land ...

Jerusalem Arabs destroyed a dozen graves at the Mount of Olives (Har Hazeitim) cemetery, supposedly under Israeli sovereignty and where many revered rabbis and Torah scholars are buried.

The Mount of Olives (Har Hazeitim in Hebrew ... burial ceremonies have renewed and large sections of the cemetery were rehabilitated. Israel also guarantees free access to all for religious ...

JERUSALEM—For the past 3,000 years, Jewish families have been bringing their dead to the Mount of Olives cemetery. A maze of hillside tombs, this graveyard is the holiest place for those in the ...

A Russian Orthodox church on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives is the unlikely final resting place for Princess Alice of Battenberg ...

JERUSALEM — A memorial ceremony was held Thursday at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem ... giant Las Vegas Sands Corp., a staunchly pro-Israel businessman and philanthropist, one ...