The rioters burned tires on the historical remains and sprayed Palestinian flags and inscriptions in Arabic on the stones of the altar. Joshua's Altar, located at Mount Ebal in the West Bank, was ...

Headlines have been splashed across newspapers in recent days about Arabs destroying part of the archaeological site at Mount Ebal. Israelis would be outraged by the destruction at any biblical ...

The Destruction at the Altar of JoshuaFighting for Every Dunam Forum Activists from the Fighting for Every Dunam Forum who arrived Friday morning at sunrise to pray the morning prayers at Joshua's ...

(JNS) A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as well as ...

The Book of Joshua, found in the Bible, tells of how one of Moses’ assistants who built an altar of stones where the Israelites made peace offerings. Much later in the book, when Joshua was old and ...

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The municipality of Asira ash-Shamaliya, north of Shechem (Nablus), is probing the possibility of declaring the altar of Joshua Ben-Nun, on Mount Ebal, a Palestinian heritage site. Engineers from the ...

Activists from the "Fighting for Every Meter" forum and residents from the Samaria towns who wanted on Friday morning to ascend as usual for the morning prayer at Joshua's Altar on Mount Ebal, were ...

On a site in modern-day Israel, academics believe they’ve found the oldest Hebrew text ever discovered, with an apparent link to a scene described in the Old Testament. A team of scholars affiliated ...