Sentence examples for jerusalem days from inspiring English sources

The Churches were at mass for  Palm Sunday, a day in the Christian calendar that commemorates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem days before his crucifixion.

JERUSALEM — Days before an Israeli election that he is expected to win, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday directed a veiled barb at President Obama, who was quoted this week as denouncing Mr. Netanyahu's policies.

JERUSALEM — Days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet with President Obama, he laid out his principles Monday for accepting a Palestinian state, showing greater flexibility on territory but still pursuing a far more hawkish approach than any Palestinian leader is likely to accept.

JERUSALEM — Days before Secretary of State John Kerry's return to the region, anger and defiance continued to flare across the West Bank on Thursday as Palestinians buried two teenagers killed by Israeli soldiers during protests triggered by the death of a prisoner with cancer while in Israeli custody.

Yossi Beilin, a former leftist member of Parliament and government minister who was the architect of an unofficial 2003 blueprint for a final peace accord, told reporters in Jerusalem days before the summit meeting that he would advise President Obama "to change the game".

JERUSALEM -- Days after a deadly confrontation at sea when Israeli commandos raided a flotilla trying to challenge the naval blockade of Gaza, a vessel owned by the Free Gaza Movement carrying humanitarian supplies and a small group of pro-Palestinian activists was on the way, scheduled to arrive early on Saturday.

JERUSALEM — Eight days after Israel suffered a terrorist attack from Egyptian Sinai and weeks before it faces a Palestinian statehood resolution at the United Nations, its officials say they are struggling with a painful set of strategic and diplomatic challenges produced by the region's popular uprisings.

JERUSALEM — For days, their blurred images had appeared on Israeli television screens and in the newspapers, a group of 21 African migrants crouching on the desert floor behind the new steel fence that Israel has built along its border with Egypt.

JERUSALEM — A day after global powers said they would resume nuclear talks with Iran, Israeli officials expressed skepticism on Wednesday of Tehran's intentions and said it was necessary to maintain a credible military option if the talks were to have any chance of success.

JERUSALEM — One day after Israeli newspapers reported that the nation's top general had said economic and diplomatic pressures against Iran were beginning to succeed, his superior, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said Thursday that the chances "appear low" that the Iranian government would bow to international pressure and halt its nuclear program.

JERUSALEM — The seven days between Holocaust Memorial Day (last Thursday) and Independence Day (this Thursday) are packed with national symbolism.