The calendar brought the people of Jerusalem to a potential crash, and there was no one wise enough to avoid it. The first day of Eid Al Ahda fell on Sunday, August 11, which also coincided with what is considered to be the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’av. While top Jewish rabbis have ruled since 1967 that it is “forbidden for Jews to go up to the ...
![An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6281893.jpg?itok=IENNaC4V "An armed Iraqi holds his rifle, as he looks towards a burnt out lorry seen at the side of the main highway leading west out of the capital Baghdad to the city of Fallujah, in Anbar province, on January 5, 2014. [AFP]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Israel/000_Nic6281007.jpg?itok=1AImwQSY "US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]")
![Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459816257.jpg?itok=9tTxXeFQ "Recently released Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Khalaf is carried by friends in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 31, 2013. [Getty Images]")
