Named after the olive groves that once covered its slopes, this 2,900-foot mountain stands opposite the Old City across the Kidron Valley. For more than 3,000 years, the Mount of Olives has served as ...

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A new 1,500-square-meter visitor education center is being built at Jerusalem's Mount of Olives to enhance security and ...

Gravestones were smashed, and trees and bushes set on fire in the Mount of Olives cemetery in eastern Jerusalem. The vandalism was discovered after midnight on Wednesday morning, when reports of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 40 graves were vandalized at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives. The vandalized graves were located in the Ger Hasidic section of the Jerusalem cemetery. Many ...

Arab terrorists at the traffic circle in Ras al-Amoud May 2011 A Jerusalem Day attack on Jews near the community of Maale HaZeitim in the Arab Ras al Amoud neighborhood has increased tension between ...

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority on Monday said it was backing down from a contentious plan to encompass Christian holy sites on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives in a national park following ...