JERUSALEM — Installing an elevator doesn’t normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city’s history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological ...

The Old City of Jerusalem is of great importance for the three monotheistic religions. It contains many sacred sites: the ...

JERUSALEM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The ramparts of Jerusalem, built for battle, were commandeered for a messaging war between Israelis and Palestinians in the build-up to Israel's normalisation deals with ...

'Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 111, The Science of Ancient Warfare and Defense (2023), pp. 103-118 (16 pages) Remains of a first-century CE wall segment and a tower base uncovered in the Russian Compound, ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the ancient stones from Jerusalem’s Western Wall has dislodged and crashed into an adjacent prayer area. No one was hurt. Footage shows the block plummeting on Monday and ...

Bijovsky G. 2019. Coins of the Hellenistic to Byzantine Periods. In S. Weksler-Bdolah and A. Onn.Jerusalem, Western Wall Plaza Excavations I: The Roman and Byzantine Remains: Architecture and ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli experts are nearing completion of an ambitious restoration of the five-century-old walls of Jerusalem, the holy city's dominant architectural feature and a unique record of ...

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall for the traditional priestly blessing prayer on Thursday. The "Birkat Cohanim", or Cohen's blessing, is a ritual dating back to ...

The Torah proclaims that a house in a walled city may be sold in perpetuity, but the owner has the right of repurchase during the first year of the sale (Leviticus 25:29, 30). Interestingly, the word ...

The Jerusalem home of a long-time board member of the Women of the Wall was spray painted with vicious graffiti. Some of the graffiti sprayed on the door and stairwell of Peggy Cidor’s apartment read ...