The 1-inch pottery fragment — part of a seal that was used to authenticate official documents — had reportedly been unearthed in a drainage canal at Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, marking the first time that evidence of relations between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah had been uncovered in the city.

Due to a mass haredi rally in Jerusalem, Route 1 will be closed, the Jerusalem Yitzhak Navon train station will be shut down, and the light rail will be operating partial service only.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men have filled the streets of Jerusalem in a mass protest against conscription to the Israeli army.

Archaeologists uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription from Jerusalem’s First Temple period, revealing ties to the Assyrian Empire.

Far from the Camp David negotiating table, Nava Malkiel opened her own dialogue on the fate of Jerusalem after a sleepless night worrying that the holy city and its shrines would be divided between Jews and Arabs.

Rami Glikstein says the violent and unprovoked attack started when the suspect approached, and pointed at his yarmulke.