For decades after 1967, the Temple Mount was defined by a simple rule: Jews could visit but not pray. Small but meaningful changes are quietly shifting that balance.

Israel's hardline national security minister has sparked outrage across the Muslim world – by flouting a decades-old arrangement aimed at keeping in check religious tensions over Jerusalem's Temple ...

By the late 12th century, political reality changed. The renewed Muslim control under Saladin after 1187 and the renewed Jewish presence in the city brought to the forefront the status of the Temple ...

The ancient Temple Mount road in Jerusalem opens after a 13-year excavation, revealing key artifacts from the Second Temple ...

Except for some clandestine surveys of caves, cisterns and tunnels undertaken by European adventurers in the late 19th century—and some minor archaeological work conducted by the British from 1938 to ...

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