Israel Antiquities Authority The monastery ... which lasted from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century. "The early settlement is sited on a central road junction connecting the mountain region ...

The struggle between Arabs and Jews over ownership of the Holy Land dates back more than a century and has given ... which is dedicated to Israel’s destruction and which the US and European ...

around the first century C.E.,” co-author Ayelet Gilboa, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa, tells the Times of Israel. “Tel Shiqmona offers evidence that already in the ninth century ...