West Bank

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

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...

Israel says the consulate closed. Britain says the mission lives. Same building, same seven staff, one screwdriver.

Netanyahu's quick UN trip sparks a bigger question: how do you actually measure a country's isolation? We build seven heuristics.

A listener's complaint about Waze turns into a tour of how routing apps actually work — graphs, shortcuts, and a map that's always slightly wrong.

Israel's gun leakage runs through three channels the licensing debate never touches — and one of them can't be sealed, audited, or bombed away.

Tribal police, rabbinic courts, and consensual arbitration all operate under one state — here's the legal plumbing that keeps it from fragmenting.

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

Gaza is 41 km long, but inside it: refugee camps, native towns, Bedouin tribes, and a fault line that runs through every city.

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

Eight countries keep consulates in Jerusalem that bypass their own Tel Aviv embassies. The reason goes back four centuries.

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.

A Chickasaw citizen came to Jerusalem expecting to confirm Israel as a colonial project. He left calling it the Indigenous success story.