Mount of Olives

Jerusalem ran out of ground for its dead — so it built a multi-storey car park where the parking spaces are graves.

A 68-dunam walled district in central Jerusalem has been a pilgrimage campus, a prison, and a city hall. Here's how it became Russian.

Herod built four retaining walls around the Temple Mount. Three survive today — but only one became Judaism's holiest prayer site. Here's why.

Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years.

Jerusalem's Old City walls are Ottoman, not ancient — and the original city sits outside them. Tracing 4,000 years of expansion and contraction.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...