"That’s why going and visiting Judea and Samaria and understanding ... The First Temple, also known as Solomon's Temple, was destroyed by the Babylonians when they conquered Jerusalem in 586 ...

He returned two decades later and completed the destruction of Shechem and of its sister-city Samaria ... At the time John Hyrcanus destroyed the temple on Mount Gerizim, the Samaritans were ...

This week, land scouts of the Samaria Regional Council ... a wall dating back to Herodian times was destroyed and burial caves dating back to the Second Temple period were smashed, looted, and ...

The Temple Mount is now the ‘Al ... and Palestinian leadership continues to deny, damage, and destroy Jewish heritage sites throughout Judea and Samaria," he said. In response, Israeli Prime ...

The Second Temple itself was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Herod was appointed “King of the Jews” by the Roman Senate in 39 BCE, and ruled over the Herodian Kingdom of Judea, which included the ...

Hundreds of visitors flocked to Shiloh in Samaria’s Binyamin region last ... the period from Moses to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. According to the 12th-century sage RaMBaM ...