MASADA, Israel – FROM 15,000 feet, Tel Aviv spreads out below, a sparkling white jewel on the Mediterranean. It had been a numbing 15-hour journey from my home in Atlanta. But I feel a jolt of ...

The mountain fortress of Masada is one of Israel's most prominent UNESCO sites, and stands as a symbol of ancient Jewish resistance. Eitan Campbell, the former director of Masada National Park ...

Masada was built by King Herod, who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 B.C., on a rocky, flat hilltop far above the Dead Sea.We sauntered around the ruins of his architectural feat, including a three-tier ...

What is Masada? Ancient Israel Site Faced Roman Siege Before Trump Tried to Land Chopper On Historic Grounds. Published May 18, 2017 at 12:53 PM EDT Updated May 25, 2017 at 2:16 PM EDT.

Along with other bodies found at Masada, the remains were recognized as those of Jewish heroes by Israel's government in 1969 and given a state burial, complete with Israeli soldiers carrying flag ...

Stiebel, who has led a series of excavations at Masada since 2017 as head of the Neustadter Masada Expedition, authored, together with Dr. Hai Ashkenazi of TAU and the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Travelers in Masada. (With permission: Israel Government Press Office/Kobi Gideon) A recent visit with a smart, committed rabbi in Florida got me thinking again about groups visiting Masada.

When Jerusalem fell in 70 A.D., hundreds of Jews journeyed through the desert to a place called Masada. They called it home until the Romans came and a bloody battle left behind only a few survivors.

When Donald Trump travels to Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip, he plans to give his main speech at Masada, a hilltop fortress soaked with bloody symbolism. It looks like a ...

Israel is seeking to preserve the Masada desert mountain, a symbolic fortress that withstood a Roman assault two millennia ago, but has begun crumbling under a harsh attack by Mother Nature.

MASADA, Israel An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada. Masada is the desert ...