Israel is celebrating a new tourism record. For the first time ever, more than 3 million people have visited the Promised Land this year.

One Brazilian pastor received a hero’s welcome to Israel. He became the 3,000,001 Holy Land visitor.

JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have discovered an 1,800-year-old bathing pool thought to be used by the Roman legion that destroyed the Jewish temple just decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The fallout from WikiLeaks’ online posting of classified U.S. documents has been felt worldwide, but most especially in the Middle East.

The leaks reveal in stunning detail the deep mistrust of Iran by Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia.

The Palestinian Authority removed a report from its website Wednesday claiming Jerusalem’s Western Wall was Muslim property and had no religious significance for the Jewish people.

On Wednesday, Jews around the world began celebrating the holiday of Hanukkah – the Festival of Lights.

It commemorates an eight-day miracle that took place during the rededication of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem in 164 B.C.

CAESAREA, Israel – Israel is known for its historical relics, but erosion is threatening some of those ancient treasures along the Israeli coastline. Coastal erosion can be devastating in many ways. It can affect homes, nature and even an entire way of life.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Just a day after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was reported to have said he would respect a peace deal between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Israeli army thwarted a terror attack along the border with the Gaza Strip.

What is being described as the worst fire in Israel’s history raged out of control in northern Israel Thursday, cutting a giant swath of deadly destruction through an area known as “little Switzerland.”
 

Nearly four days after the deadliest fire in Israel’s history erupted in the northern part of the country, authorities announced Sunday that all major blazes had been contained.

“Our news for this evening is control,” fire official Boaz Rakia told reporters at nightfall Sunday.

JERUSALEM, Israel — It took four days and aerial aid from 10 countries as far away as the U.S. to extinguish the worst fire in Israel’s history. In the end, 42 people were killed, at least 12,500 acres of forestland destroyed, 250 homes damaged – 70 of them beyond repair — and more than $50

BEIT OREN, Israel — The largest fire in Israel’s history has been extinguished. For those who lost everything, the process of putting their lives back together is just beginning.

“The Kibbutz was moved on Thursday at 12:30,” Erel Artzy, manager of Kibbutz Beit Oren.

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israel responded to several South American countries Tuesday, saying their recognition of an independent Palestinian state as defined by lines before the 1967 Six-Day War was shocking and an “empty gesture.”

JERUSALEM, Israel — The U.S. and Israel have rejected a new political trend in South America.

Volunteer harvesters from the United States and Canada, have local Jewish vintners in Samaria, otherwise known as the West Bank, wondering if not just the grapes, but also the times – are ripening.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Jerusalem will not be shared with the Palestinians.

There has been a record number of tourists visiting Bethlehem, Israel this year. Hotel rooms have been fully booked for Christmas week, due in part to the declining violence on the West Bank.

JERUSALEM, Israel — Some have called it a digital warhead. Stuxnet – the computer worm that infected computers inside Iran’s nuclear program — may have caused a two-year setback in the Islamic Republic’s development of an atomic weapon. 

Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Many of them will travel to the Holy Land to visit places where Jesus lived and walked.

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JERUSALEM, Israel — Jerusalem police are saying the murder of an American Christian woman Sunday could be a possible terror attack.

Police discovered the bound and stabbed body of Kristine Luken in a wooded area outside Jerusalem Sunday.

The situation along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip is potentially “fragile and explosive,” Israel’s military chief said Tuesday, following an escalation in tensions along the border.

Shraf Jarayseh has been working in an olive wood workshop near Bethlehem since he was a boy. Now, he uses his craft to make wood sculptures in remembrance of Jesus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided officially and publicly to appeal to President Obama for the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.