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All too often, critics have charged the Jewish state with limiting Palestinians' freedom of worship, specifically at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque. However,

"The heart of the historic State of Israel, the City of David, was here 3,000 years ago," Netanyahu told his cabinet, which met in Jerusalem.

Palestinian leaders Nakba Day speech at the UN included the claim that Zionists lie just like Goebbels and the denial of Jews historic links to Jerusalem

The story of how the mystical language came to be, why it was detested by many, and how it reemerged as an anchor of Jewish identity

Last September, five red heifers arrived in Israel from the U.S.

Four days after two Jewish cousins were murdered by a terrorist outside a historic Tunisian synagogue on the island of Djerba, the country’s president compared Israel with Nazi Germany. …

Aviel Haddad was killed on May 9 alongside his French cousin and three security personnel.

From the blog of Melissa Jane Kronfeld at The Times of Israel

For Scott Stripling, one archaeologist's trash has become his treasure. Through a process called wet sifting—a methodological revolution bringing to light small or hidden artifacts that were previously missed at many archaeological digs—Stripling and his team have made an incredible discovery on Mount Ebal in the mountains of Samaria that could very well be one

From the blog of Steve Rodan at The Times of Israel