A valuable gift will receive a Jerusalem institute next week. The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to the Institute.

A petition against giving up any part of Jerusalem to Palestine was sighed by a majority of Israel’s lawmakers.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has raised questions about Israel's control of Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. His remarks Monday came in a speech remembering a prominent right-wing parliamentarian who was killed by Palestinian militants. Mr. Olmert asked if it was necessary for Israel to control Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is emerging as a major stumbling block in new peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, both Jews and Muslims are claiming the city's holy sites as their own.

Security was tight in Jerusalem Friday as Muslims and Jews observed major religious holidays. Palestinians from the occupied territories were barred from attending prayers at a hotly disputed holy place.

Six years after the success of its China: One Hundred Treasures exhibition in 2001, which displayed Chinese treasures covering 5,000 years, from neolithic bronzes to Ming porcelains, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents the newest chapter in the history of Chinese art on view from September 18, 2007 to March 1, 2008.

An Israeli security guard has shot dead a Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City after the Palestinian grabbed a gun from another Israeli guard and opened fire.

Hidden Cities (2006-2007) is a new series of drawings by veteran Israeli artist Yemima Ergas. In these works, cities rise out of charcoal strokes and smudges, creating familiar-looking, yet unidentifiable places: a building, a street, a bridge, a stadium. These hidden, anonymous cities contain structures that are repeated again and again in the various drawings, sometimes in the foreground and sometimes fading into the distance.

Rockefeller Museum opens a new exhibition, Beliefs and Believers: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum, which showcases, in its own unique setting, 34 of the most striking and significant objects from the permanent archaeology galleries of the Israel Museum.

The Ruth Youth Wing in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, is focusing this summer on water, its role in our lives, and its representation in works of art from ancient times until today. The Water in Art and Life exhibition brings together works of painting, sculpture, photography and video art, as well as interactive installations, multimedia educational information and a variety of hands-on activities.

Russian envoy said Friday that representatives of Quartet of Middle East peacemakers will meet Tuesday in Jerusalem, according to the Interfax news agency.

Everything is in place for gala celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the moment many Israelis see as their most glorious - the dramatic unification of Jerusalem under their control in the 1967 Middle East war.