Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses a lawmaker-smuggler and Armenian Jerusalemites as Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor looks at GA speeches and a Ramadan event

The Jewish state has prioritized ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan over recognizing the WWI Ottoman massacre, critics say, as Armenian community voices shame over country's stance

The northern city, where many ethnic Armenians live, is the first Israeli municipality to give such recognition to the World War I atrocities

Mardigian Museum in Old City features the rich culture and travails of a community that has maintained a continuous presence in holy city even as rulers have come and gone

A new museum at the Monastery of the Cross offers displays of stunning mosaics and artworks, artifacts and architecture, going back to Armenia's 4th-century roots in the Holy Land

Most of the Jewish community fled in the early 20th century, and Israeli-Azerbaijani relations have been a damper, but ancient ties and renewed diplomacy sow hope for the future

1948 UN convention says genocide is 'act committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group'; many massacres still not recognized

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Turkey is weak diplomatically and economically, and won't retaliate, but for Israel, strategic interests still trump moral declarations

In the past some Jewish organizations had lobbied to stop US from recognizing the genocide, in part to preserve Israel's strategic ties to Turkey