Atarot Airport has not been used since the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, though a Tel Aviv aviation firm which maintains and repairs helicopters currently operates from the site. The Atarot ...

Opened in 1924, the Jerusalem International Airport, also known as Atarot Airport or Kalandiya Airport, was the first airport in the British Mandate for Palestine. Palestinians are strongly opposed to ...

David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and ...

Under diplomatic pressure from the US administration of Joe Biden, Israel has halted issuing a final approval to build a new Jewish settlement in the occupied East Jerusalem. Israel announced last ...

Ofer Berkowitz, head of the Hitorerut (Awakening) party in the Jerusalem city council and a member of the district committee, discussed the decision to freeze a project to establish a new Jewish ...

Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli (Labor) has floated the idea of reopening the airport in the Atarot area of Jerusalem instead of constructing the new neighborhood there which was approved by ...

A Jerusalem municipal committee is set to debate a controversial plan to build 9,000 homes, mostly designated for Jewish residents, at the site of the former Atarot Airport on December 6. The ...

Satellite photo of Atarot industrial park and the old Atarot airport in northern Jerusalem. The Israeli government has informed the US that Israel won’t be moving ahead with the construction of a much ...

Israel has advanced the creation of a new Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem on a land plot occupied by an abandoned international airport built during the British Mandate. Israel used the ...

Practically the primary front in the Arab war against Israel is Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority and its Arab allies have made no secret of their intention to turn the Jewish nation’s eternal holy ...

A new airport that would be the first ever owned by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority may sound improbable given the years of conflict between the two peoples, but it could eventually come to ...

JERUSALEM, April 11 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has secretly agreed to relinquish control of Atarot Airport, unnamed ministry sources reportedly revealed. The Kol HaZman (All the ...