Friday also saw tension in Bahrain as Shia Muslims marked Jerusalem Day in support of Palestinians.
Jerusalem Day is the day the regime organizes mass demonstrations throughout the country calling for Israel's destruction.
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Israel demolished a Palestinian property in occupied East Jerusalem a day after the planning decision was publicised.
Thursday's print edition of Ma'ariv sufficed with a photograph from Beck's rally in Jerusalem the previous day.
As bad luck or perverse planning would have it, the incident came just before a ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Day.
His comments were described as "an absolute disgrace" by Israeli President Shimon Peres, attending a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Jerusalem.
Israel announced its building plans for the "E1" area between East Jerusalem and the West Bank a day after the UN's decision.
Israel seized East Jerusalem from Jordan during the Six-Day War in 1967 and regards the land as part of its undivided capital.
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Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan during the six-day war of 1967.
In Columbus' day, Jews widely believed that Jerusalem had to be liberated and the Temple rebuilt for the Messiah to come.
Benedict began the day with a busy morning in Jerusalem's Old City, including meeting the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches.
Rice said Sunday she would press Israel on its plans to build homes in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope will one day become the capital of a Palestinian state.
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On the same day a bomb exploded in a West Jerusalem supermarket without causing injury.
And he certainly won't countenance a redivision of Jerusalem to what existed before the 1967 Six-Day War.
East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, having previously been under Arab rule.
In Ramallah, officials said Mr Arafat may be interred in a stone coffin so that one day his body can be moved to Jerusalem where Palestinians hope to have the capital of a future independent state.
In fact, it is fair to say that the modern-day incarnation of the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem still feels like the promised land.
Perhaps one day Israel's leaders may be foolish enough to withdraw from Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley.
The contentious issues of Jerusalem and the right of return for Palestinian refugees would be deferred to another day.
The accusation came a day after Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, in a news conference in Jerusalem with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, appeared less certain.
On the first day of his visit, as a matter of routine governance, the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee approved plans to build 1, 600 housing units in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.
Three weeks ago, residents of the settlement set off on a two-day march from the controversial neighborhood to the Israeli Knesset parliamentary building in Jerusalem and called for a bill which would bypass the court's decision and legalize their homes.
There are about 250 settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the report said, all started since Israel seized the lands after the Six Day War in 1967.
During the Six-Day War he served in a unit that hand-delivered messages between headquarters and Jerusalem.
By the second half of the 1990s, the Palestinian Authority had gained day-to-day control over large areas of daily life in the Arab-inhabited areas of Jerusalem.
Since as far as Clinton is concerned, Israel will one day be required to throw all the Jews out of East, South and North Jerusalem to make room for what she believes is the "inevitable" Palestinian state, Israel has no right to treat Arabs and Jews equally in its soon-to-be-inevitably divided capital city.
Livni says day in and day out that Israel's interests are best served by surrendering Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Jordan Valley as quickly as possible.
The day before, a Jewish fast-day, the main source of tension had been at Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem (CNN) -- A Palestinian woman held by Israel for alleged terrorist activity ended her 44-day hunger strike Thursday after agreeing to be deported to Gaza, her lawyer said.
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