For Jews accustomed to celebrating Hanukkah as a minority, this difference is striking. In much of the Diaspora, Hanukkah has ...

Israel is planning to expel residents of the ancient West Bank town of Sebastia to create a national park for settlers.

This suggests they were constructed by a highly organized and sophisticated society whose existence was previously unknown. While local legend speaks of a famously drowned city, much like Atlantis, ...