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A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.

In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly

Belief

Jews and Muslims both claim the burial site of Abraham in Hebron as their own. It’s the Palestinian conflict in a nutshell.

Author and musician Yuval Ben-Ami, 39.

In Holy Land, a tribute to Lorde gets complicated

Music
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in Jerusalem following a terrorist attack on a West Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.

Palestinians are anxious as Israel vows a ‘strong response’ to the Jerusalem attack

Conflict
Israeli right-wing activists rallied on Thursday for Jewish prayer rights at the holiest site in Jerusalem, the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount.

Jerusalem is a city on the brink as four months of tensions between Jews and Palestinians continue

Conflict
An Israeli flag is painted on one of the walls on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.

At the only place where Israel will export things to Gaza, both sides remain at arm’s length

Conflict