Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Jerusalem highlights: February 20-26

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

Red Tent’ exhibition of works by Michal Tamir  (see Saturday).
 Shira Kamrad, ‘Jerusalem Beach.'

Jerusalem highlights : August 22-28

 ‘THEY ARE are organic. They can be burned.’ Ivory artifacts, like the figurines pictured here, were among the highest priority artifacts to be removed from the museum to safety.

How Israel safeguards archaeological treasures amid Iranian attacks

 HAGIT AND UZI Rosenzweig at the opening of their late son’s exhibition, ‘Kuma,’ at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.

Fallen soldier Eitan Rosenzweig’s art is on display at the Bible Lands Museum


Check out the new exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Executive Director Risa Levitt gives the ‘Report’ a tour of its new exhibition by 20 Israeli artists

 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Jerusalem highlights January 12-18

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 THE TOWER of David Museum: Telling 4,000 years of Jerusalem history.

Grapevine August 6, 2021: Feeding the hungry

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ANAT BERNSTEIN-REICH with Yigal Toledano.

Delayed by a plague of biblical proportions

Awaiting the opening of Beit Shemesh’s Biblical Museum of Natural History.

BEIT SHEMESH’S new Biblical Museum of Natural History, the opening os which has been put on hold by COVID-19 restrictions.

Grapevine February 14, 2020: Of marriage, children and hope

A roundup of news from around Israel.

Bible Lands Museum

1,500-year-old Byzantine Church with stunning mosaics discovered in Beit Shemesh

The building has been named the “Church of the Glorious Martyr,” after the figure to whom the church was devoted according to an inscription, and whose identity remains a mystery.

The church in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

A focus on Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh, at the crossroads between Jerusalem and coast, has been inhabited since earliest times, going back to the pre-biblical Canaanite civilization from whom its idolatrous name originates.

Dr. Yudah Govrin at the archeological site at Tel Beit Shemesh

Kishor wine-tasting warms hearts at Bible Lands

The event celebrated the award-winning wines produced by the special-needs Kibbutz.

The winery is staffed by members of Kishorit, a kibbutz of 175 special-needs people in the Western Galilee.

Art in at the deep blue end

The museum’s annual summertime arts festival goes by the name of Andrelamuse Blues and casts its net over a broad stretch of disciplines and art forms.

THE VIDEO ART installation courtesy of Shlomit Yaakov. THE VIDEO ART installation courtesy of Shlomit Yaakov (August 20, 2018).

GRAPEVINE: Israeli Originality

Matisyahu (file photo)