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During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites...
Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own...
For centuries, the farmers in the Madonie region have harvested sap from ash trees. Once used for its therapeutic properties, the white, sugary...
Spanish civil society has ‘concerns,’ due to war in Gaza, about Israel’s participation in annual song contest, writes Spanish RTVE network in...
The tour of the site, some four kilometers from the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, is set to take place on Thursday, during the Jewish holiday of...
Original manuscript of the renowned Passover text created by artist David Moss is exhibited at the National Library of Israel
Artifacts on display include findings from Franco-Palestinian excavations initiated in Gaza in 1995, as well as items from the collection of Gazan...
‘Sanctify God’s name,’ says activist and bereaved mother in appeal to ultra-Orthodox; demonstrator holds up sign quoting Moses: ‘Are your...
Israel Exploration Society calls off event less than a day in advance due to Amichai Eliyahu’s objection to participation of archaeologist who...
According to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, notes include messages sent through its website by people from enemy countries, such as Iran and...
Ziv Nitzan was hiking with her family near Tel Azeka when she picked up a small stone that her sisters later realized was shaped like a scarab,...
New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a spiritual role for their...
Pottery excavated at Megiddo in northern Israel suggests a military presence, possibly confirms the battle between King Josiah and Pharaoh Necho, and...
Second annual Rossing Center report documents 111 anti-Christian incidents in 2024. Accompanying survey finds almost half of Christians under 30 want...
Artifact daubed with red pattern and trio of animals discovered near olive press in Yatir Forest, considered advanced for its time
Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population are converts
Poll says that just over half of religious Zionists recognize ultra-Orthodox contributions to society, down since last year, as more respondents want...
Rabbi David Leybel has already registered significant achievements in integrating Haredim into the workforce. Now he’s turning his sights on...
Excavations by Israeli archaeologists at the mysterious Judean Desert site reveal artifacts suggesting it served as a post for tax collection and...
High numbers of students in religious Zionist schools, where sex education is often an afterthought, are having sex with their peers, including those...
A landmark excavation has offered unprecedented historical insights. Set to conclude in the coming months, ToI gets a sneak peek
Judge says the trio were ‘motivated by events taking place elsewhere in the world’ and chose the victim based on their ‘understanding of his...
New radiocarbon dating at the Huqoq sanctuary in the Galilee puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, and hints that Jews still...
For centuries, Cochin Jews marked Purim by burning effigies of Haman, while the holiday represented the day when Jews from all backgrounds celebrated...
A newly excavated site in Ostia Antica, dating as early as the 3rd century CE, offers fresh insight and new enigmas about the city’s potential...
In a sporadic occurrence that will next repeat itself in 2045, Jews in the capital get to celebrate a three-day holiday
Using dentists’ tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and...
Cutting-edge technology allows a team of Israeli researchers to determine that mysterious ironclad remains found in a church near Jerusalem belonged...
National Jewish Book Award recipient Aviad Moreno’s work focuses on northern Morocco’s Hispanic Jews, whose yearning for a ‘homeland’ was...
Following High Court petition by Tzohar and ITIM groups, Michael Malkieli rolls back regulations guaranteeing him control of selection committees
While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, archaeological remains from the...
According to a study by the ITIM nonprofit, one in five Israelis also report their connection to Judaism was negatively impacted by the experience
Sartaba/Alexandrium was built by the Hasmoneans and expanded by Herod. A team of archaeologists has launched a first excavation in 40 years to probe...
A 2nd-century gate in the Old City’s Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital’s multilayered history — and complex present
With 2,000 years of history between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church, relations have been positive in recent decades. But October 7 has...
Now housed at the National Library, 15th-cent. Mezukak Shivatayim extensively quotes Jewish sages whose works are unknown to scholars, opening the way...
New report by group promoting religious freedom says 67% of Israeli public supports recognizing all types of marriages in Israel, including civil,...
‘Unofficial fraternal meeting’ of Egypt, Jordan and Gulf states expected to address Cairo’s proposal, which official says would see Hamas...
Israel Democracy Institute’s report indicates that Haredi solidarity with the rest of society was transient
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem just concluded their second season of excavations at Hyrcania, where they found colorful...
Chief Rabbinate Council is the main authority on Jewish law for government and religious services; head of advocacy group says new members all appear...
Transparency International finds ‘global corruption levels remain alarmingly high, with efforts to reduce them faltering’
The finds on display include a Hasmonean coin hoard, archaeological evidence of the biblical king Ahab, and a Western Wall stone
Professionals warn that bill extending Israeli law over West Bank may strengthen claims of de facto annexation, would not solve neglect and looting...
Israeli researchers recently deciphered an ostracon in a grand 1st-century structure in the Jordan Valley that could prove Jewish rebels used the site...
New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began earlier than 50,000...
A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first...
Parts of two double-handled jugs were found in the waters near Tel Achziv in 2016. Scholars recently deciphered the etched writing on one of them
A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan Maccabee and his army drew...
During the Early Bronze Age, the Southern Levant’s inability to support mass sheep herding left the region lagging behind Syria and Mesopotamia. But...