The document, titled "Persecutions Against the Jews of Damascus ," was published in Paris in the same year and sold for 1 franc and 75 centimes. Its rediscovery provides a rare contemporary account of the dramatic events that reverberated throughout the Jewish world.

Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces.

AIPAC and AJC are taking a cautiously hopeful approach to the new government in Damascus, while Israel is growing increasingly alarmed by the regime

A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present

Israel’s defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of Damascus in neighboring Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus”

Israeli defense officials see an opportunity to strengthen their long-standing missile defense collaboration with the United States.

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in a wary climate stirred by a standoff over the Gaza ceasefire and an extended Israeli military campaign in the West Bank.

The Israel Defense Forces said that it had struck several military targets in southern Syria, including sites containing weapons and command centers.

DAMASCUS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes hit a town south of Syria's capital as well as the southern province of Daraa late on Tuesday, residents, security sources and local broadcaster Syria TV said. Israeli planes struck the town of Kisweh ...

Israel confirmed it is conducting strikes in southern Syria, as the new Syrian government calls for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Syrian territory.

(Reporting by Timour Azhari, Khalil Ashawi and Mahmoud Hasano in Damascus, Seteven Scheer in Jerusalem and Jaidaa Taha in Cairo; Writing by Maya Gebeily; Editing by Alistair Bell)