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

For Christians, said Cooper, the Mount of Olives served as Jesus’ base during the “main events” — the last week of Jesus’ life: his arrival in Jerusalem and his shuttling between ...

An interesting development on Jerusalem's Temple Mount could be a sign that the return of Jesus Christ may be sooner than ...

For more than 3,000 years, the Mount of Olives has served as Jerusalem's primary burial ground and the final resting place of notable biblical figures, such as Zechariah and Absalom. There are ...

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 ...

Former justice and finance minister Yaakov Neeman was buried on Monday at Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives Cemetery following a ceremony in which President Reuven Rivlin praised him as a “man of ...

View from Mount of Olives across Jewish cemetary and Kidron Valley The view of the Old City from the Mount of Olives is one of the best in Jerusalem to get the full panorama of the sites.

Hundreds attended the traditional procession on the Mount of Olives with palm fronds and olive branches that celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem at the start of Holy Week. Sign up here.

The pilgrims waving palm fronds wound their way down from Bethphage — a Franciscan church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem — down to the Monastery of the Ascension and downhill to ...

A Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, a ridge opposite Jerusalem’s Old City, offers a sweeping view of the gleaming golden dome. Some Jewish extremists see the Islamic shrine as a ...

Thousands of Christians celebrated Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, kicking off the first day of Holy Week while the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas persists in the region.

“Indeed it is Jerusalem [Beit al-Maqdis] and his words to the Israelites were: we have set a meeting with you at the right side of the Mount of Olives, that is – Jerusalem [Beit al-Maqdis].