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 ...

Map locates the West Bank city of Bethlehem in Israel, southest of Jerusalem. It also locates the Gaza Strip to the west. The ministry says about 20,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.

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 ...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli troops pulled out of biblical Bethlehem and a neighboring village early today, witnesses said, edging Israel and the Palestinians closer to a cease-fire in the 18-month ...

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 ...

Sha’ban warned that the establishment of this colony aims to further isolate the Bethlehem and ... All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East ...

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 ...

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 ...