Shots fired near the security fence by Hasmonean checkpoint, suspect arrested. 'Shooting was carried out for hunting purposes ...

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men enlisted in the IDF today despite Haredi protests aiming to obstruct them, and most will serve ...

New research sheds light on the millennia-old mystery of why Jerusalemites from 2,100 years ago carefully dismantled a large fortification wall — more massive than the current walls of the Old City — ...

Workers from the Israel Antiquities Authority clean a section of an excavation site where, according to the institution, a city wall from the Hasmonean period, dating to the late 2nd century BCE, was ...

A buried stretch of fortification that once guarded ancient Jerusalem has reappeared in the unlikeliest of places, beneath a ...

Hasmonean Primary School is celebrating a major milestone after being named the highest-ranked Jewish primary school in the Sunday Times Top 1000 Schools. The recognition highlights the small, ...

When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod There were different rulers called Herod who formed ...

Excavations indicated that the wall was deliberately and systematically removed, leading to additional questions as to who ...

A newly exposed stretch of fortification in Jerusalem has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of how an ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Archaeologists have uncovered the longest continuous remains of ancient Jerusalem’s Hasmonean walls, a rare find ...

Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring kingdoms.