Nearly two years of demonstrations have failed to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach a deal with Hamas that would end the war and free the remaining captives.

An 18-month-old Israeli boy died of measles on Saturday at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center, marking the second fatality in the country's current measles outbreak, Israel's Health Ministry said in a statement.

Jordan condemned the ongoing Israeli attacks and restrictions imposed on Christians in occupied Jerusalem as violations of the city's historical and legal status quo. The Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs denounced in a statement issued Saturday Israel's decision to freeze the bank accounts of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem,

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich previously approved plans for a settlement that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank. The UN human rights office said on Friday that Israel's decision to build a new settlement near east Jerusalem was illegal under international law and that it put nearby Palestinians at risk of forced eviction,

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem’s municipal authorities have frozen the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate's bank accounts amid an ongoing dispute in Israel.