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 ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — 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 ...
“Archaeological discoveries allow us to connect to the historical continuity that binds us – generations of Jews, to Jerusalem,” said Israel’s Heritage Minister, Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu. A definitive ...
This is because walls are not always the strongest defenses of a city. There are times when they are absences, space hacked out to the point of being a statement: slack, queue, make an appearance. The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re'im, walks in a section of an excavation ...