Secretary Clinton announced the trip in Jerusalem earlier this week during her first visit to the Middle East as America's top diplomat.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake with Robert Berger in Jerusalem and Dorian Jones in Istanbul.

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The Speed Sisters received money from the British Consulate in Jerusalem to buy a race car.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

Hanna Siniora is a member of the Palestine National Council from East Jerusalem.

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Jewish rebels defeated a Greek-Syrian army and reclaimed their temple in Jerusalem.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

It said Gilo is an integral part of Jerusalem and that building in the neighborhood has continued unabated for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in a move that was not recognized internationally.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

He stands above a heap of shattered concrete and twisted metal on a windswept hillside in Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Both claim Jerusalem as their capital. Whether that peace process can continue under Israel's new administration remains a question.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Prospects for peace hinge largely on the key issue of whether the two sides can agree on the status of Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

However,signs of the shortage are much less visible in cities like Jerusalem, where taps have yet to go dry.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Back in East Jerusalem, Taysir Dwayat gazes at the rubble that only hours earlier, was his late son's home.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Intel has operated on the Sabbath in Jerusalem for years, so it is not clear why the protests broke out now.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14