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Jerusalem’s redesigned Tower of David museum opens after 3-year renovation

May 30, 2023553 Views

Jerusalem’s iconic citadel has opened its revamped museum after a three-year, $50 million makeover that included a restoration of its signature minaret. The Tower of David, the ancient fortress on the western edge of the Old City, contains remnants of successive fortifications built one atop the other dating back over two millennia. For centuries, pilgrims, conquerors and tourists visiting the city holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam have entered Jerusalem beneath the adjacent Jaffa Gate. Today, the former castle serves as a museum dedicated to the city’s 3,000-year history. A woman walks at the inner courtyard of the Tower of David Museum, in Jerusalem's Old City, after a three-year renovation project, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) It is a daunting task...

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Armenian museum reopens in Jerusalem’s Old City

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January 16, 2023931 Views

A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community’s rich, if pained, history. The Mardigian Museum showcases Armenian culture and tells of the community’s centuries-long connection to the holy city. At the same time, it is a memorial to around 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turks around World War I, in what many scholars consider the 20th century’s first genocide. A visitor tours the Armenian Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo) Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of c...

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Bethlehem rebounds from pandemic, lifting Christmas spirits

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December 24, 2022547 Views

The biblical town of Bethlehem marked what was shaping up to be a merry Christmas on Saturday, with thousands of visitors expected to descend upon the traditional birthplace of Jesus as it rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Tourism is the economic lifeblood of this town in the occupied West Bank, and for the past two years, the pandemic kept international visitors away. This year, visitors are back, hotels are full and shopkeepers have reported a brisk business in the runup to the holiday. People gather in Manger Square, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) “We are celebrating Christmas this year in a very much different way t...

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Jerusalem chef gives tourists a Palestinian taste of life in the Old City

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December 22, 2022518 Views

Palestinian chef Izzeldin Bukhari begins the tours he offers to the Old City of Jerusalem with breakfast at Abu Shukri's hummus restaurant which he says serves the perfect balance of chickpeas, tahina and lemon juice. "Palestinian cuisine really utilizes what the land has to offer," Bukhari says, explaining that these heavily plant-based recipes are deeply rooted in a connection to the local produce. Izzeldin Abdul Aziz Bukhari, founder of SacredCuisine, guides a group of tourists in a spice shop at a market in Jerusalem's Old City, December 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Bukhari, descended from Sufi mystics who walked to Jerusalem from Bukhara in Uzbekistan 400 years ago, takes guests down the narrow streets of the Old City, to food stalls and restaurants, telling stories of recip...

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Israeli archaeologists excavating ‘Jesus midwife’ tomb

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December 20, 2022960 Views

An ancient tomb traditionally associated with Jesus’s midwife is being excavated anew by archaeologists in the hills southwest of Jerusalem, the antiquities authority said Tuesday. The intricately decorated Jewish burial cave complex dates to around the first century A.D., but it was later associated by local Christians with Salome, the midwife of Jesus in the Gospels. A Byzantine chapel was built at the site, which was a place of pilgrimage and veneration for centuries thereafter. A view shows the interior of the Salome Cave Clay lamps that were discovered in the Salome Cave A volunteer digs at the site of the Salome Cave A volunteer takes a break from digging at the Salome Cave) The cave was first found and excavated decades ago by an Israeli archaeologist. The cave...

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A cable car plan for tourists over the Jerusalem wins case

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May 15, 2022545 Views

Israeli and Palestinian opponents of an Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City lost on Sunday their Supreme Court case against a project they argued would alter its ancient landscape. A unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel disseminated by the Justice Ministry showed the court had decided against intervening to reverse the Israeli government's 2019 approval of the plan, saying proper planning procedures had been followed. The proposed cable car would shuttle some 3,000 tourists and worshippers per hour from the western part of Jerusalem to an area near the Dung Gate entrance to the eastern Old City in a four-minute ride. FILE PHOTO: A man look on as he sits in a golf cart near Dung Gate, close to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City Nove...

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Holy Fire lights up Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre

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April 24, 2022624 Views

With processions, chants and ululations, thousands of Christian Palestinians and pilgrims celebrated the Holy Fire ceremony at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday, the first to be held since Israel imposed new restrictions on attendance. Citing public safety, Israeli authorities sought to limit participation to 1,700 worshippers, a move criticised by church leaders as an infringement of the right to freedom of worship. It was subsequently increased to 4,000. Metropolitan Fenidictus, the Patriarchate of Bethlehem, attends the Holy Fire ceremony, in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma The mysterious, millennium-old ceremony, which celebrates Jesus's resurrection, has drawn over ten thousan...

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Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity

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April 23, 2022914 Views

Eastern churches prepared to mark Easter one week after the Roman Catholic celebration A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of the holiest day in the Christian calendar. As Eastern churches prepared to mark Easter one week after the Roman Catholic celebration, Barakat al-Masri stood deep underneath Saint Helena’s Coptic Orthodox church, chanting hymns in Coptic and Arabic. The cistern is not much to look at, but al-Masri, the cantor at the Coptic church, says the sound it produces is unique. A woman climbs the stairs of a cistern, which according to Jerusalem tour guide Bashar Abu Shamsiyeh, was relied upon for water during the construction ...

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Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre ‘resurrected’ for Palm Sunday mass as pilgrims return

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April 10, 2022214 Views

Prayers in Arabic and Latin echoed in the rotunda of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday as Christians from around the world were once again able to attend Palm Sunday mass after two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions. Around 500 worshippers passed through the huge wooden doors of the church that is the focus of the most important festival in the Christian calendar as the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and resurrected. "After two years of COVID, of restrictions, of closed churches, today we are in a normal atmosphere. We have a lot of pilgrims, a lot of local Christians. We are very happy. For us, it's a kind of resurrection," the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told Reuters. Father Rami Asakriyah sprinkles holy water ...

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Thousands gather at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa for prayers

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April 9, 2022826 Views

Tens of thousands of Muslims flocked to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan for noon prayers, which passed peacefully despite concerns about a repeat of Israeli-Palestinian violence that erupted during the Muslim holy month last year. From early morning, residents of cities such as Bethlehem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank lined up at Israeli checkpoints to visit Al-Aqsa. After two years of COVID restrictions, Israel has allowed some Palestinians from the West Bank who hold a travel permit to enter Jerusalem. Muslim women walk in front of the Dome of the Rock, on the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 8, 2022 REUTERS/Ammar Awad But...