NATIONAL
November 6, 2011 | By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
The Supreme Court this week will take up the case of a 9-year-old boy born in Jerusalem to American parents who want their child's passport to say his birthplace is in Israel. The State Department refused their request in keeping with long-standing American foreign policy against recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. This seemingly narrow dispute over one word on a passport has put before the high court several broad questions that have long divided diplomats and constitutional scholars.
WORLD
February 22, 2004 | Ken Ellingwood and Laura King, Times Staff Writers
A thunderous blast tore through a Jerusalem bus at morning rush hour today, the start of the Israeli workweek. At least seven people were killed and dozens of others injured, police said. Israeli authorities said they believed the explosion was the work of a suicide bomber. The attack came at a delicate political moment -- on the eve of hearings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the legality of a barrier Israel is building in the West Bank.
NEWS
September 29, 2000 | TRACY WILKINSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Subtlety is not Ariel Sharon's strong suit. Flanked by hundreds of police officers in riot gear and with helicopters flying overhead, Sharon led a small knot of right-wing politicians onto the holiest and most bitterly contested site in Jerusalem's Old City early Thursday, sparking riots that left dozens of Palestinians and Israeli troops injured.
NEWS
September 23, 2000 | TRACY WILKINSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A once-unthinkable proposal to turn over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City to United Nations authority is being resurrected in an attempt to breathe new life into peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, officials from several nations said Friday. The proposal, which Israel is said to now favor but Palestinians so far oppose, comes as American officials struggle for ways to salvage negotiations and set the Middle East on the road to a definitive peace.
NEWS
April 18, 2000 | TRACY WILKINSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
With just weeks to go until a deadline for making peace with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has started to dribble out details of a final treaty. In his most explicit language to date, Barak told his Cabinet this week that Israel will release eastern suburbs of Jerusalem to Palestinian control. Annexing the 50,000 or more Palestinians who live just east of the Old City, he said, is not in Israel's security or social interest.
NEWS
September 16, 1999 | REBECCA TROUNSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The bitter conflict over this holy city has spilled into the place that is supposed to be the happiest on Earth. And nobody's smiling about it. More than a year ago, officials of the Walt Disney Co. invited Israel and 23 other nations to take part in a special millennial celebration at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in Orlando, Fla. The aim, a Disney spokesman said, was to showcase cultural diversity, not political differences.