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The Hasmonean Brigade’s deployment deepens the debate over yeshivah draft exemptions, which is putting strain on Netanyahu’s coalition.The post First Haredi IDF unit enters Gaza Strip appeared first ...

Plans to merge a girls’ school with a boys’ school have been dashed over fears they may impact Green Belt land. An application to demolish Hasmonean High School for Girls in Page Street, Mill ...

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have recruited the first group of ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, soldiers into the newly established Hasmonean Brigade. This initiative aims to integrate the Haredi ...

In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the ...

Hasmonean history didn’t end there, however. The very next year, Judah’s army lost a major battle and Judah himself was killed in 160 BCE. After this, Jonathan, the youngest of the five ...

Other experts agree. “I would argue that there are previous forms of Judaism” that existed before Hasmonean times, says Jonathan Stökl, a biblical authority at Leiden University in the ...

Israeli, German archeologists reconstruct Hasmonean destruction of Greek city The year and exact season of the destruction of the Greek town Tel Iẓṭabba occurred has been determined by Israeli ...

The ancient farmsteaders may have "left in haste." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed ...

Ancient archaeological artifacts thousands of years old, including a Hasmonean-era coin, were discovered by police in East Jerusalem on Sunday, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Chanukah.

A building believed to be a synagogue was found in 2001 in the northeastern part of the Hasmonean palace complex. Hasmonean oil lamp in City of David. A perfectly preserved oil lamp from the Hasmonean ...