Tag Archives: Israel

CAIRO — Egypt is developing the Holy Family Trail, a pilgrimage of sites from Jesus’ infancy to his wandering in the desert, hoping to revive its tourist industry battered by two years ...

Some tourists who would like to visit Israel are hesitant because of concerns about their safety. It turns out that those concerns are unfounded, the “Jerusalem Post” reports. In fact, Israel is ...

Jews and Christians alike are honoring the memory of a “hero of Israel,” an Arab Christian who while confronting a terrorist in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak near Tel ...

Rishi Sunak, the new prime minister of Great Britain, has his hands full trying to address the nation’s economic challenges. However, he is showing that he will be a strong ally of ...

President Joe Biden is throwing shade at Benjamin Netanyahu.  The diplomatic snub comes in the form of the president’s refusal to call Benjamin Netanyahu and congratulate him on his victory in Israel’s ...

After being restricted by the pandemic, Israeli tourism is back in business. Christians from around the world are flocking back to the Holy Land. In fact, metrovoicenews.com publishers Dwight and Anita Widaman ...

Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to make history as exit polls from Tuesday’s election show his party has won Israel’s election. Votes continue to be tallied and Netanyahu says he will not declare ...

Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history, has had a significant impact not only on his own nation but the world. The new book “Bibi: My Story” recounts his remarkable ...

The Australian left-wing Labor government has created a diplomatic crisis after it reversed the previous government’s policy of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the country. Taking to social media on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair ...

Iranian protests continue with millions of women, men and teenagers protesting the brutal regime that dictates most aspects of life. Now, a music video originating from the Iranian regime‘s arch-enemy, Israel, has ...

American Jews are concerned about an interactive website that seeks to expose those who support Jews who choose to immigrate to Israel. The identification effort, called The Mapping Project, reveals the names ...

Palestinian mothers are wrong to send their sons to die in clashes with Israeli forces, says an Arab Muslim governor in Samaria. Ibrahim Ramadan, who leads the West Bank city of Nablus, ...

Jews are reporting they’re being blocked from escaping Russia even though they hold Israeli passports. Hebrew news media has interviewed numerous men and families who, while holding dual citizenship in Russia and ...

People from across the political spectrum again are criticizing squad founder Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for her latest bigoted remarks. She previously had even tweeted about eliminating Israel completely. Speaking at an ...

Today the prayer notes left at the Western Wall in Jerusalem are being collected. They do this twice a year. Each little note, including those left by people on our yearly tours ...

JERUSALEM—American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The quarter shekel ...

An extraordinary discovery was recently unearthed in Jerusalem when Israeli archeologists uncovered an assemblage of ivory plaques dating to the First Temple period (Solomon’s Temple). They are among only a few found ...

Star Wars is once again in the spotlight and pulling on nostalgic heartstrings in the new Disney+ limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen. The series follows members of ...

Japan and Israel are strengthening their ties with a historic agreement on defense. Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and Japanese Minister of Defense Yasukazu Hamada signed a “Memorandum for Defense Cooperation” ...

Seventy years ago this month, Frederick George Kenyon passed away. He was a trailblazer in biblical archaeology. “Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may ...

“They don’t show this on the news,” exclaimed our daughter Emma as we stepped out of the mini-van. “They’re just like us!” She observed the Jewish family piling out of their own ...

Residents of Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions will be able to continue buying Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. A federal judge rejected the company’s bid to block its parent company, Unilever, from ...

Five American Jews are recovering after a Palestinian man opened fire on a city bus in Jerusalem on Sunday. The gunman, identified as 26-year-old Amir Sidawi, a resident of East Jerusalem, targeted ...

Israel Uncharted! is the free yearly special speaker series from Metro Voice. Israel “is the earthly crossroads of all that has unfolded, determining the affairs of peoples and nations since time began,” ...

The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah was discovered at an ancient synagogue in Israel, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced in July. A rendering of one ...