Amid terrorist attacks in Israel, The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center announced plans to relocate students, faculty and their families to Greece. In total, 93 BYU students and faculty, as well as faculty families and service couples will relocate to Greece. Further details about where the group will stay were not made available. The decision to relocate comes as students and faculty were "asked to stay at the center" for nearly a week. BYU has been providing regular, daily updates on security for the last week and no violence has...

As Israel began to take its avowed “mighty revenge” for the Hamas invasion by pounding Gaza with the fiercest barrage of rockets in the 75-year history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, students at the BYU Jerusalem Center peacefully attended classes on the campus. “The city is quiet,” the center’s director, Eric Huntsman, wrote on Facebook. “It has been a busy, good day, but I had time to take my accustomed few minutes in the afternoon in the biblical garden to read, reflect, pray and gaze over the city. I love it...

JERUSALEM (ABC4) — Students and expats at Brigham Young University‘s Jerusalem Center are confirmed to be safe amid ongoing conflicts in Israel. On Saturday morning, Hamas militants attacked Israel with airstrikes in Gaza. The attacks spread beyond the Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns. The BYU Jerusalem Center said rocket fire continued on coastal cities throughout the night with cities such as Tel Aviv, about 33 miles north of Jerusalem, struck in the attack. In a Sunday morning update, Center officials estimated 600 Israelis were killed, 350 seriously wounded and...

Several people injured from rocket barrage in Jerusalem, volunteer medical group says Several people were injured Tuesday from a "direct strike in the recent rocket barrage," a volunteer emergency medical technician (EMT) group said. “United Hatzalah volunteers are currently treating one person in a town in the Jerusalem area whose is in serious condition as a result of injuries sustained from a direct strike in the recent rocket barrage,” it said. Additionally, volunteers are treating several others who were injured in a direct rocket strike in a town south of...

LONDON -- Rockets have been fired from Gaza "across southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas militants," according to the U.S. embassy. In a statement issued early Saturday morning, the embassy said that it is "closely monitoring" the security situation after an unknown number of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel in a surprise attack. "The U.S. Embassy is aware that there have been casualties as a result of these incidents. U.S. citizens are reminded to remain vigilant and take appropriate steps...

The Israeli army sounded sirens in Jerusalem after a barrage of rockets was fired from the blockaded Gaza Strip into Israel on Saturday, AFP journalists reported.

The rocket fire that started earlier in the day killed at least one person, a woman in her 60s, in southern Israel and wounded 15 others, according to medics.

The mayor is religious, and so are many voters in his political base. Visiting Israel is a rite of passage for the mayor of New York City, whose Jewish population is second only to Israel’s. Mayor Eric Adams has spent the last couple of days there. He had been there twice before, but this was his first trip as mayor. It was also the first trip there for our City Hall bureau chief, Emma G. Fitzsimmons. I asked her about her impressions of the trip. Here is what she said:...

Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Jordan presented his credentials on Saturday to begin also serving as Riyadh’s first-ever non-resident ambassador to Palestine, as well as its first-ever non-resident consul general to Jerusalem. The move represents an apparent effort by Saudi Arabia to intensify its involvement in the region, as well as a nod to the Palestinian Authority and a recognition of its claims to Jerusalem, even as Riyadh engages in negotiations with the Biden administration about potentially normalizing relations with Israel. Nayef Al-Sudairi — who is a cousin of Saudi Crown...

A suspected Palestinian gunman wounded two men near a Jewish site in annexed east Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said, with security forces conducting a manhunt for the perpetrator. The shooting came days before the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which has seen deadly attacks and clashes in Israel, annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Israeli police announced a suspected "shooting terror attack" in the Sheikh Jarrah sector of east Jerusalem targeting two motorists, who according to medics were rushed to hospital. "Police and...

Israeli police detained some Palestinians after raiding the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem on April 5. Photo: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Escalating tensions and violence at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound over the last few weeks have exacerbated the already strained relations between Jordan and Israel, two U.S. and two Israeli officials said. Why it matters: Jordan’s King Abdullah II is the custodian of the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.