Bethany, Bethlehem, Emmaus, Arimathea - smaller villages important in the four Gospels Caesarea - seat of Roman ... next to but not part of first-century Israel, including Scythopolis, Pella ...

Israel blocks Ramallah meeting with Arab ministers, Israeli official says The move came days after Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced one of the largest expansions of settlements in the ...

Mount Sinai Beth Israel began closing its doors Tuesday after a New York appeals court rejected a community group’s bid to keep it open. The ruling, handed down by the Appellate Division of the ...

Israel declared it was at war after an unprecedented Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, and soon after began an operation to destroy the Palestinian militant group with airstrikes and a ground ...

The conflict between Israel and Palestinians — and other groups in the Middle East — goes back decades. These stories provide context for current developments and the history that led up to them.