Jodi Magness trudged across the barren moonscape atop Masada, pointing to where ... of tourists and led The Times of Israel to a massive underground water cistern, one of 18 that sustained ...

The cliff-top fortress of Masada, located in Israel near the Dead Sea ... In addition, Masada had a system of water cisterns on the northwest slope and an extensive series of storehouses used ...

Jews first fortified Masada during the exhilarating years after theMaccabees drove the Greeks out of Israel and became ... bathtubs, cisterns andbathhouses, Herod built an intricate system of ...

To provide water for his pools, bathtubs, cisterns, and bathhouses ... The synagogue on Masada is one of the oldest in Israel, and was probably used for worship by Herod’s family.

The Israel Nature Society at Masada has teamed up with Chabad to ... who hid in one of huge cisterns of the palace during the suicide. Judaism forbids taking one’s life, and the episode does ...

The main details of the famous 1st-century Roman siege on Masada are extremely well-known: The years-long Roman soldiers’ ...

Jodi Magness busts myths and asks unanswerable questions in a new book about Masada — the site of the largest Jewish wholesale self-slaughter that may never have been: The Times of Israel.

We do have a Masada complex. We have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.” The Prime Minister proceeded to deliver “a small, moving oration about the spirit of Israel, a spirit that ...

The rabbi shared his excitement about Masada and his doubts about its suitability as a place to mark bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies on an upcoming Israel trip. Masada has long-been a mandatory ...

According to Dr. Stiebel, the tale of Masada, the Great Jewish Revolt, and its tragic outcome, as told by the ancient historian Flavius Josephus, has long been a key element in Israel’s cultural ...