Old City of Jerusalem

The stone ring around Jerusalem's Old City is younger than you think — and the legend about its architects is wrong.

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

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

No treaty, no law, no signature — just Moshe Dayan's oral agreement with the Waqf, still governing the Mount 59 years later.

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

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.

Barbed wire, minefields, and a wax-pencil line: how Jerusalem's seven-kilometre border was physically torn down after 1967.

How a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers.

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.

Parking minimums bury money underground — and shape the towers above. What Jerusalem's luxury towers reveal about rules nobody chose.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language is finally standardizing how place names get written in English — but the Q on the signs has survived every...

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...