To be sure, a persistent theme of the patriarchal stories is the two promises G-d made to each of them, namely that they would have many descendants and that they would inherit the land of Canaan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that his forces will remain in Syria indefinitely, after Israeli troops ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli troops will remain in Syrian territory indefinitely, and that blurs the border ...

The Golan Heights is recognized by the international community — except the US and Israel — as Israeli-occupied territory ...

Fears of Palestinian Islamist militant groups such as Hamas infiltrating the already destabilized Sinai region largely guide Egypt’s view on the matter. Moreover, concerns about the potential ...

Before that, the overlap occurred in 1959 and 1921. The first night of Hanukkah will not land on Christmas Day again until 2035 and then again in 2054 While Hanukkah often coincides with the ...

A Spanish woman named Egeria, who traveled to the Holy Land and Mount Sinai around 381 to 384, had recorded the existence of monastic life in the Mount Sinai area. Saint Catherine’s Monastery was ...

Israeli officials have said during the war in Gaza that Palestinian militant group Hamas used tunnels running under the border into Egypt's Sinai region to smuggle arms. However, Egypt says it ...

Any one whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful. This is indeed a big country ...

After losing their territory over the course of decades to Western expansion and violence, the tribe went generations without collectively owned land. But in 2018, more than 150 years later ...

Do you need an SUV that can cross a mountain range or a desert? If so, the Toyota Land Cruiser will almost certainly end up on your shortlist. For more than 70 years, the Land Cruiser has built a ...