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From ruins, regrowth: Artists answer October 7 with humanity

An exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum brings together artists who had to find their way back to the studio after the massacre and asks whether a people can grow again.

Eva Avidar's work: Bite, 2017.
Blue Sun (see Sunday).

Jerusalem highlights: July 24-30

‘New World, Take 2’ (see Tuesday).

Jerusalem highlights: June 26-July 2

Red Tent’ exhibition of works by Michal Tamir  (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: February 20-26


Jerusalem highlights : August 22-28

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 Shira Kamrad, ‘Jerusalem Beach.'

How Israel safeguards archaeological treasures amid Iranian attacks

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: Museum staff members across Israeli institutions face the challenge of protecting some of the most important artifacts of humankind.

 ‘THEY ARE are organic. They can be burned.’ Ivory artifacts, like the figurines pictured here, were among the highest priority artifacts to be removed from the museum to safety.

Fallen soldier Eitan Rosenzweig’s art is on display at the Bible Lands Museum

The exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem showcases Eitan Rosenzweig’s art and writings, honoring the late IDF soldier’s legacy and resilience.

 HAGIT AND UZI Rosenzweig at the opening of their late son’s exhibition, ‘Kuma,’ at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.

Check out the new exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Executive Director Risa Levitt gives the ‘Report’ a tour of its new exhibition by 20 Israeli artists

 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Jerusalem highlights January 12-18

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 THE TOWER of David Museum: Telling 4,000 years of Jerusalem history.

Grapevine August 6, 2021: Feeding the hungry

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ANAT BERNSTEIN-REICH with Yigal Toledano.

Delayed by a plague of biblical proportions

Awaiting the opening of Beit Shemesh’s Biblical Museum of Natural History.

BEIT SHEMESH’S new Biblical Museum of Natural History, the opening os which has been put on hold by COVID-19 restrictions.

Grapevine February 14, 2020: Of marriage, children and hope

A roundup of news from around Israel.

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1,500-year-old Byzantine Church with stunning mosaics discovered in Beit Shemesh

The building has been named the “Church of the Glorious Martyr,” after the figure to whom the church was devoted according to an inscription, and whose identity remains a mystery.

The church in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

A focus on Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh, at the crossroads between Jerusalem and coast, has been inhabited since earliest times, going back to the pre-biblical Canaanite civilization from whom its idolatrous name originates.

Dr. Yudah Govrin at the archeological site at Tel Beit Shemesh