but we are building more walls inside our walled city.” Musicians perform in Bethlehem's Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity, on December 1, (Reuters/Ammar Awad) To the west of the ...

Ancient shard offers ... A 2,700-year-old clay shard with an ancient Hebrew inscription mentioning the city of Bethlehem has been ... just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old ...

JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to ...

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription “Bethlehem,” the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe ...

Some scholars argue that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace arose from the desire to link him to an ancient Hebrew prophecy ... sections of a wall around the village, and a two ...

One cannot look at the enormous security wall “without being a bit shaken ... quiet fields of Bethlehem.” The ancient city represents “ground zero for a new birth,” Sadleir says ...