According to Rabbi Michael Melchior, the religious contacts have survived through the past ten months of violence with the blessing of political leaders whose own negotiations have effectively collapsed.

The Times, UK, July 5, 2001

Israel has decided to develop the traditional site of Jesus' baptism along the Jordan River near the Palestinian town of Jerico and clear mines from what is now a closed military zone, the Tourism Ministry said Tuesday.

The Associated Press, June 26, 2001

Ultra-Orthodox organizations vow to put an end to building project belonging to the church of Scotland in the center of Tiberias

By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz, June 25, 2001

After a thousand years in pieces, an ancient Roman obelisk stood proudly again on June 18 in the seaport of Caesarea.

Religion Today, June 22, 2001

The monk from Wadi Kelt was shot dead while driving along the Jerusalem-Ma'ale Adumim road last week.

By Amos Harel, Ha’aretz Correspondent, June 20, 2001

This is the first time that an Israeli Arab Christian has been chosen for the post

By Jalal Bana, Ha'aretz Correspondent, June 19, 2001

Reflections of the phenomenon of search for spirituality in Israel, includes at least four large New Age festivals that drew tens of thousands of revelers this spring.

By JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writer, June 16, 2001

The Israeli religious burial society is claiming that the three were born of mixed marriages - a Jewish father and a Christian mother - and therefore could not be buried in Jewish cemeteries.

By Anat Cygielman and Yossi Verter, Ha'aretz Correspondents

Egypt's grand mufti : "Arabs and Muslims will not allow a Jewish Temple to be rebuilt even if that would lead to a third world war breaking out"

The Times of India,29th may,2001

"We invent all kinds of tombs" in Palestinian-populated areas, said Prof. Moshe Maoz at a meeting with the Jewish Leaders in the US, citing Joseph's Tomb, located in Nablus, which was destroyed by Palestinian rioters

By Melissa Radler, The Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2001