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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
April 27, 2018
“The Czech Republic has decided to open in May an honorary consulate in West Jerusalem, and before the end of the year a Czech (cultural) center, also in West Jerusalem,” the statement said. The third ... Moving the embassy to Jerusalem would require the approval of the Czech government. Opened inÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 27, 2018
... overwhelming majority of 96% want to ensure that the city stays open and that the border between East and West Jerusalem isn't re-established. ... They are not allowed to cooperate with the Ramallah-based Palestinian government, yet their own local institutions have been closed upon the IsraeliÃâà...
Haaretz
April 27, 2018
On Independence Day eve, I was returning from an alternative torchlighting ceremony held by the anti-occupation organization Yesh Gvul. Night had already fallen but the fireworks display ending the official ceremony, on nearby Mount Herzl, had not yet begun. The No. 14 bus I was on was half-empty.
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
April 9, 2018
Section 6 was also inserted, stating that no authority within the jurisdiction of Jerusalem could be transferred “to a foreign body, whether political or governmental.” Likewise, Basic Law: Referendum, 5774-2014, stipulates that Israel's sovereignty over part of its territory should not be waived unless the government has soÃâà...
Middle East Forum
March 30, 2018
President Trump announced yesterday that the U.S. government recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will begin preparations for ... Current and past proposals to move the embassy have all involved relocation to West Jerusalem – territory to which Palestinian negotiators have not laid claim.
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 22, 2018
West Jerusalem Mayor to Announce Knesset Candidacy. Thursday, 22 March ... Although Netanyahu declared at the beginning of the week that his government coalition would last until the end of 2019, a senior Israeli minister told the Maariv website that the PM had not given up on early elections in June.
Middle East Eye
March 20, 2018
The contrast with the West Jerusalem Office, which only serves Israeli Jews, could not be starker, with no queues or any form of humiliation. ... any presence in East Jerusalem, leaving it to Palestinian members of the Knesset and human rights organisations to take up the matter with the Israeli government.
Haaretz
March 18, 2018
Late, but hopefully not too late, the government has allocated a substantial amount for spending on basic infrastructure there. ... It was an eye-opener to most Israelis — and even to most residents of West Jerusalem — who have become used to receiving courteous service from the population authority,Ãâà...
LobeLog
March 14, 2018
Had the president decided to relocate the US embassy to West Jerusalem and recognized East Jerusalem as the capital of the future state of ... Before the creation of the state of Israel, the area were the US embassy will be relocated was public property belonging to the government of Mandatory Palestine.
Haaretz
March 9, 2018
... avoid future complications with the population authority. Appointments aren't necessary for other population authority offices, and Haaretz discovered that getting one in East Jerusalem is nearly mission impossible. The authority uses the government's My Visit app, and recently offered some dates in May,Ãâà...
Newsweek
March 8, 2018
Two years before, the Israeli government had banned his political party, Kach, for its anti-Arab platform. Kahane had called ... Yet 27 years after Kahane's murder, on another November evening, hundreds of Israelis gathered in West Jerusalem to commemorate the anniversary of his death. It was one of 25Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
"By unethically stripping the residency of Palestinians from Jerusalem and depriving the rights of those Palestinians to remain in their own city, the Israeli government ... The latter had recently announced its recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and East Jerusalem as "the capital of the futureÃâà...
HuffPost Canada
March 6, 2018
By failing to distinguish between the legal status of East and West Jerusalem, the Conservative statement misleads everyday Canadians to believe that East Jerusalem is legally part of ... While our government considers itself a "steadfast ally" of Israel, we are only a mere "friend" to the Palestinian people.
TRT World
March 6, 2018
Ramallah-based Palestinian government slammed the decision saying "it violates the rules of international law" after Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales announced ... Spotted in west Jerusalem: Guatemalan Ambassador @SaraSolisC, on a visit to find a new embassy site. pic.twitter.com/yr4ZXU0u4J.
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
ON BIBI'S MIND -- “Israel demands stricter sanctions on Iranian missiles” by Barak Ravid: “Israeli officials told me that the government in Jerusalem was surprised to find out that the .... Dan Williams: "Spotted in West Jerusalem: Guatemalan Ambassador @SaraSolisC, on a visit to find a new embassy site.
HuffPost Canada
March 5, 2018
By failing to distinguish between the legal status of East and West Jerusalem, the Conservative statement misleads everyday Canadians to believe that East Jerusalem is legally part of ... While our government considers itself a "steadfast ally" of Israel, we are only a mere "friend" to the Palestinian people.
Aljazeera.com
March 3, 2018
Two, the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation was seeking to advance the "Bill of Church Lands" which would have controversially given the Israeli government the power to confiscate church property that had been leased out in West Jerusalem. In most European countries, such as in Germany,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2018
For years, Mr. Adelson, a Las Vegas casino mogul, has pushed the United States government to move its embassy to Jerusalem, the disputed capital that .... temporary American Embassy will be housed, and the land adjacent to it, roughly straddles the seam between West Jerusalem, where mostly IsraelisÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 20, 2018
... High Court of Justice in West Jerusalem, which decided in September to annul a decade-old decision to revoke the residency permits of four Palestinians ... The government bill specifies three cases in which the Minister of the Interior is entitled to revoke the permanent residency permit for citizens: if theÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
The president of Romania posted a statement on Friday expressing opposition to the move being advanced by the Romanian government to move its ... However, the Czech Foreign Ministry announced at the same time that the Czech Republic only recognized West Jerusalem as Israel's capital and that theÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
In 2015 a ceremony was held in a schoolyard in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of west Jerusalem, about four kilometers from the Temple Mount. ... With longing, a call and a demand, as well as practical preparation for the moment the government allows the Passover sacrifice to be properly offered, on itsÃâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
... Israeli Knesset bill that would have allowed the Israeli government to seize church land, as well as a plan to tax church property. Following uproar and protests that included the shutdown of the Church and solidarity from leading religious figures around the world, the West Jerusalem Municipality decidedÃâà...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
Although the Israeli government has long exempted churches from taxes, Jerusalem's municipality has demanded that their businesses pay local levies. ... even more noxious by the churches, which have begun to sell much of their residential property in West Jerusalem, the main Jewish half of the city.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A search is underway for a site for a permanent embassy to be built, but for the foreseeable future, the face of the United States government will be in Arnona ... The Arnona compound sits between the predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967Ãâà...
