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Rossella TercatinThe Times of Israel |
Women take test on laws of mourning in separate location from men thanks to emergency injunction, following years of legal battles to sit for...
Members joining march under banners of British Army’s Nazi-fighting Jewish Brigade and other Jewish organizations are insulted and prevented from...
Rabbi selected by a 64-member committee after receiving the support of Mayor Ron Huldai
Teen suspected of murdering Pizza Hut worker in Petah Tikva caught on camera holding a knife covered in blood shortly after the Independence Day...
Now reopened with war on hold, Israel Museum exhibition explores maps produced from the 15th to 19th century that blended geography with biblical...
After a nine year vacancy, a 64-member panel will choose a candidate, with Mayor Ron Huldai reportedly striking deal with powerful Haredi party to...
Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants...
A new study testifies to how hominins at Gesher Benot Ya’akov took advantage of their environment to fuel fires, showing advanced cognitive abilities
Study of 3,000-year-old animal teeth from Tel Hazor in the Upper Galilee shows herds moved between warring Israel and Aram, shedding light on ancient...
On her first Holocaust Remembrance Day since realizing her dream of immigrating, Penina Zeitchik aims to gather all her grandchildren to share what...
Israel Antiquities Authority says modern-day structure preserving the mosaic in Nahariya was damaged but the ancient floor is intact
During the ceasefire with Iran, the iconic church that enshrines what many consider Jesus’s tomb opens to the public and Christians from across...
Archaeologists found the remains of dozens of children under the age of two deposited in a water reservoir of the ancient Judean town, a new study has...
PM and top cabinet ministers to meet on possibilities for reopening education system; move dependent on assessment by IDF Home Front of Iranian...
Old City largely desolate as just a handful of clergy allowed to perform Passover priestly blessing at the Western Wall and Easter Sunday services at...
Found in a cathedral destroyed by an earthquake in 749, a unique liturgical object suggests the ceremony there featured three moments of anointment, a...
According to Bar-Ilan University’s Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,’ the biblical narrative ‘culturally...
The cryptic Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was founded before the Islamic Revolution. Gems from its $3 billion collection at times re-emerge from...
The first evidence that iron was traded as a semifinished product has been found off the coast of northern Israel. It may have been intended for...
A new study shows that Natufian adults and children crafted jewelry 12,000 years ago shaped like the plants they ate, in one of the earliest...
Police say they found the artifacts last month as they inspected a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian doctor as he crossed the Hizma checkpoint north...
Rare hand axes from the Sakhnin Valley show Homo erectus picked fossil- and crystal-rich stones for visual appeal, hinting at early symbolic thinking,...
Remote sensing and AI helped identify 28 sites similar to Rujm el-Hiri, challenging theories about the ancient stone circle’s purpose and pointing...
Police officer was friends with Ze’ev Erlich, who died in 2024 while examining an archaeological site in Lebanon; police were reportedly unaware of...
Inspectors from the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Theft Prevention Unit say looters are exploiting the wartime security situation to plunder...
Mosaic-decorated church uncovered at Nitzana National Park sheds light on the scene among pilgrims traveling through the Holy Land to Saint...
Artifact was possibly used by the Greek defenders of the city of Hippos against the Hasmonean army of King Alexander Jannaeus in 101 BCE
Ashkelon, Ariel and Dimona decide conditions are not yet suitable to reopen their education systems, though the Home Front Command designated them as...
Yoav Kisch holds situational assessment in northern town of Nahriya; Education Ministry asks IDF to swiftly assess possibility of enabling schools in...
Roni Aynsaz posed as a Muslim to work inside a Revolutionary Guards court, secretly helping Jews, before fleeing to Israel where he founded the SCOOP...
The education system could start operating in areas considered at a lower risk by the Home Front Command, if schools have access to adequate shelters
Tel Aviv University delays opening until after Passover on April 12, to help reservists unable to get back to school, but others say they will begin...
Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig says that for observant Jews, it can be challenging to observe laws like Shabbat while dealing with the anxiety and stress of...
The only two known ancient megillahs written by women are part of a new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, whose opening has been postponed...
In light of the emergency situation, Israel’s Home Front Command has banned public gatherings, including recitations of the Book of Esther. Leading...
Joint Israel-US strikes on the Iranian regime are taking place just as Jews are set to mark a festival commemorating another war against a Persian...
The 2,100-year-old artifact, seven meters long, can be viewed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; only 25 people at a time allowed into...
The volume, which combines two books experts believe were printed in Rome around 1473, to be auctioned Tuesday by Jerusalem-based Kedem
800-year-old, meter-long artifact discovered off Dor Beach, undergoes a CT scan at the Medica Elisha Hospital
Team redates prehistoric ‘Ubeidiya in Jordan Valley to same age as oldest Georgian site, suggesting at least two distinct groups of human ancestors...
Chief rabbis claim justices overstepped their authority with ruling, while Shas leader Aryeh Deri accuses them of trying to ‘desecrate’ Western Wall
Finds at Tel ‘Eton preserved by fire amid Assyrian conquest 2,700 years ago offer evidence that matriarch and patriarch got biggest and best room of...
A new peer-reviewed article offers an alternative reading of the famous Gospel story that saw Jesus flipping the tables of merchants and moneychangers
High Court of Justice holds hearing on status of religious right at Jerusalem’s holy site for first time in years, demands answers on why 2017...
Liberal Jewish groups seek to ensure full rights for egalitarian prayers despite ultra-Orthodox opposition, long after government nixed compromise on...
A prominent specialist in Semitic languages, Muraoka was proud to describe himself as the first Japanese student to complete a PhD at the Hebrew...
Cups, bowls and other ritually pure items are thought to have been fashioned out of soft limestone at Mount Scopus site along pilgrimage road in...
The Carmel Beach Regional Council, Caesarea Development Company, and Israel Antiquities Authority sign NIS 39 million joint agreement to preserve and...
Questioning of Pam Bondi over slow rollout of Epstein files comes after report that sex offender sought to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin via...
Petitioners who first asked the High Court of Justice to intervene in 2019 hail the move, but the Rabbinate also announces it will conduct a...