JERUSALEM (AP) — In the 1920s, an urgent call went out to the literati across the Middle East from Arab leaders in Jerusalem: Send us your books so that we may protect them for generations to come.

“Art is national. We can have great art if we are rooted in the soil,” Menachem Ussishkin stated in a 1926 response to the growing number of modern-art exhibitions in Jerusalem. His words echoed the ...

Palestine had a successful importing and exporting industry at the beginning of the 20th century. The expansion of railroads throughout Palestine to neighboring countries helped the region's growth in ...

I’d begin my day in the Old City with its diversity of people, communities and religious sites. First up is the Via Dolorosa, where pilgrims follow the steps of Jesus and stop to pray by the 14 ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Days after capturing Jerusalem's Old City in a 1967 war, Israel razed the Moroccan Quarter, a ramshackle neighborhood of Palestinian homes in front of the Western Wall, aiming to ...