Each year, a celebration of Samuel the prophet takes place at Nabi Samuel site North of Jerusalem. For the first time this year, the Palestinian village Nabi Samwil located next...
Very well-written piece about the situation in Hebron By David Kattenburg Seven days in Hebron
Jerusalem has vastly expanded in the 7,000 years of its existence. Including, in the past two decades, downwards. Beneath the Old City, one can already walk hundreds of meters underground,...
NIF grantee Emek Shaveh recently published a new report entitled, “Selectively Sacred: Holy Sites in Jerusalem and its Environs.” The report exposes the ambiguity and confusion around what legally constitutes...
Palestinians to announce a list of heritage sites in urgent need of protection from Israeli violations By Jonathan Cook, Aljazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/annexing-archaeology-unesco-israel-160519051718915.html
Leftist NGO petitions High Court, claiming transfer of artifacts to new building in western part of Jerusalem is in violation of international law By Nir Hasson, Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.718216
Emek Shaveh, a left-wing NGO O that aims protect ancient sites as a public asset, petitioned the High Court of Justice on Wednesday to prevent the pending transfer of east Jerusalem’s...
The Antiquities Authority on Thursday refuted claims by left-wing NGO Emek Shaveh that it plans to transfer east Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum’s library and rare relics to the western portion of the...
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of an impressive fort built more than two thousand years ago by Greeks in the center of old Jerusalem. The ruins are the first...
In response to UNESCO’s Executive Board’s decision on Palestine from last week (Executive Board 199th session on Occupied Palestine) we would like to say the following: We regret that in...