Expert labels UNESCO's Hebron resolution “particularly ironic" and as "anti-science a measure as one can get, because there is no debate among historians about the Jewish connection to the Cave of the Patriarchs.”
UNESCO's executive committee is expected to vote on another anti-Israel resolution stating everything Israel does in Jerusalem is illegal, on the same day that Israel celebrates its Independence Day.
UNESCO Director-General Bokova underscored the significance of respecting all religious connection to Jerusalem, while underscoring the Jewish historical links to the holy city.
Abbas is again promoting the great lie that the socalled Palestinians are the indigenous people of Israel, claiming they are the descendants of the Canaanites.
UNESCO ambassadors received a personal tour from the mayor of Jerusalem and learned the history of the Holy City and its indelible link to the Jewish nation.
In one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in the last 60 years, archeologists have found more evidence surrounding the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Land of Israel constantly reveals hidden treasures, testifying to its rich history. This time, archeologists deciphered a 2,000-year-old stone with one of the oldest-known mentions of the name Judea.
Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe were prevented from reaching Israel, then British Mandate Palestine, and were instead interned in detention camps in Cyprus.
The Palestinian Authority’s campaign against the Balfour Declaration indicates that its leadership refuses to recognize the legitimate historical right of the Jews to their national homeland and casts serious doubts about Palestinian intentions.
In an effort to uncover the original rock surface where Jesus' body was laid, the main Christian communities that govern the church have allowed a work crew only 60 hours to excavate the Edicule, the inner sanctum that covers what is believed to be the original cave where Jesus is said to have been entombed and resurrected.
Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
Shimon Peres' death on Wednesday was mostly greeted with official silence across the Arab world — in sharp contrast to the emotional tributes that poured in from the rest of the world.
At 29, Peres served as director of Israel's Defense Ministry and helped arm Israel's military. He developed Israel's nuclear program, launched a political career stretching more than 60 years and became president at 83. He also focused on promoting Israeli innovation and technology.
This is the first time researchers have been able to read the text of an ancient scroll without having to physically open it and this scroll proves the version of the Hebrew Bible used today is identical to the one from 2,000 years ago.
To date, approximately 600 colored stone floor tile segments have been discovered, with many of them dated to the Herodian Second Temple period. The Temple Mount Sifting Project was established in response to the illegal removal of tons of antiquities-rich earth from the Temple Mount by the Islamic Waqf.
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