Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

I used to take tourists on tours in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but everything changed.” Anna criticized polarized narratives about the conflict, saying, “I am against any form of violence ...

Around half of the population in the Bethlehem area, including nearby villages, works in either tourism or in jobs in Israel. The unemployment rate in Bethlehem is roughly 50%, said Salman.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — In the little town of Bethlehem, Christmas this year is barely a whisper. Palestinian scouts paraded through the streets but without their traditional instruments of drums ...

The atmosphere in Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born, was more relaxed this Christmas. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who was the object of a protest ...

But when I arrived at the holiest sites where Jesus was born, preached, died – from Bethlehem and Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee and Jerusalem — the only Christian I found was myself.

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the ...

Around half of the population in the Bethlehem area, including nearby villages, works in either tourism or in jobs in Israel. The unemployment rate in Bethlehem is roughly 50%, said Salman.

On Christmas Eve 2024, Bethlehem’s usually vibrant streets were uncharacteristically subdued. The checkpoint from east Jerusalem was almost empty, and those arriving by car found few shops open.

Around half of the population in the Bethlehem area, including nearby villages, works in either tourism or in jobs in Israel. The unemployment rate in Bethlehem is roughly 50%, said Salman.

Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another ... There are about 182,000 in Israel, 50,000 in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 1,300 in Gaza, according to the U.S. State Department.