Jordan

No treaty, no law, no signature — just Moshe Dayan's oral agreement with the Waqf, still governing the Mount 59 years later.

For 19 years, one narrow seam connected two hostile halves of Jerusalem. Here's how the Mandelbaum Gate actually worked.

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

The stones are documented. The dirt underneath them has never been dug. Why the Temple Mount is archaeology's biggest open question.

A 737 squawks 7500 over Saudi airspace and Israel scrambles fighters. What those jets can actually do — and why "escort" isn't the right word.

Two commanders drew a ceasefire line in wax pencil in 1948. It became a city's border for nineteen years.

Eight countries keep consulates in Jerusalem that bypass their own Tel Aviv embassies. The reason goes back four centuries.

What pan-Arabism actually claims, why it isn't the umma, and why 22 members can't stop sanctioning each other.

Sleeper trains, cargo ships, and vehicle relocation — the surprising alternatives to flying that already exist.

What border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes.

Inside the Jerusalem camp that's within the city limits but beyond the barrier — taxed by the city, policed by no one.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

Herod built four retaining walls around the Temple Mount. Three survive today — but only one became Judaism's holiest prayer site. Here's why.

The Bible's lists of ancient peoples are theological claims, not census records — and the Hittites are two entirely different peoples wearing one n...

A first officer stabbed his captain mid-flight. What happened next — and why aviation's security model has no answer for it.

A 24-hour pedestrian crossing between Eilat and Taba, where a free stamp, a one-kilometer fee waiver, and four treaty zones shape every trip into S...

Six churches share Jerusalem's holiest sites — and none can move a chair without the other five agreeing. Here's how that happened.

A 68-dunam walled district in central Jerusalem has been a pilgrimage campus, a prison, and a city hall. Here's how it became Russian.

How a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers.

Gaza is 41 km long, but inside it: refugee camps, native towns, Bedouin tribes, and a fault line that runs through every city.

Egypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?