They were friends and perhaps wanted to become lovers. They also loved the Land of Israel and set out to walk through it. Tragically, their walk was horrifyingly interrupted.
The City of David remains a captivating blend of archaeological wonder and contemporary life, offering visitors a compelling journey through layers of civilizations.
In 2024, a Jewish and secular leap year, I decided it was an opportunity to focus on a few of the Passover-related objects in their collection.
There is the ideal Seder in your mind and then there is the real Seder in your house with impatience, rolling eyes, spilled wine, siblings quibbling, and – yes – a lack of the children’s interest.
It is a story which is mostly unknown and, in my humble opinion, is begging for a research assistant to properly investigate and perhaps base a doctoral thesis on the subject.
Israeli agent Maya Rimon takes on the dark world of white supremacy and antisemitism, with encounters with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, white nationalists, Russian conspiracists, and the mob.
The National Library of Israel has the world's largest Haggadah collection, includes some of the oldest Haggadot.
Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating and chemical analysis of the volcanic layers covering the earlier building, which confirmed that the building predates the Vesuvian eruption in AD79.
Egyptian authorities spotted the artifact when it was offered for sale in an exhibition in London in 2013, after it was stolen more than three decades ago.
Residents of a village near Jerusalem piece together an ancient Roman floor.