JERUSALEM — At 7 a.m. every weekday, the large green doors of the mosque at the Al-Aqsa compound, usually wide open, close with a bang as Palestinian worshippers shutter themselves inside. Israeli ...

STORY: Outrage was sparked in the Muslim world after Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited and prayed at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. The Sunday visit ...

Debora Patta is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in Johannesburg. Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Edward R.

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned the visit of Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound. "The Kingdom condemns in the strongest terms the storming of the ...

Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, cancelled a weekly visit which allows elderly Palestinians, from the Gaza Strip, to travel to annexed East Jerusalem for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, according ...

(RNS) — Since Israel was established in 1948, only one prime minister — the current prime minister’s predecessor, Naftali Bennett — wore the kippah that religious Jews wear. From its founding, Israeli ...

Israel’s new national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made a surprise visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Tuesday, prompting fierce condemnation by the Palestinian Authority, who called it ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is lobbying against calls to hold an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council, following a controversial visit by Israel's far-right national security minister, ...

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