Jews' Roman 'escape route' found
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Israeli archaeologists find a tunnel in Jerusalem used by Jews to escape from the Romans in 70 AD.
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The Vatican tried to enroll Roman Jewish men in its security forces in 1943 in order to save them from the Nazis, the Vatican's second in command said on Tuesday, rejecting charges that wartime Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic.
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Estradato da Ungheria e rinchiuso in carcere Rebibbia a Roma
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Middle East News, A controversial Palestinian security official related to Yasser Arafat has escaped an apparent car bomb attack in Gaza City without injury.
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Un tunnel minato Ã¨ esploso oggi sotto un check-point israeliano nella Striscia di Gaza, nei pressi della cittÃ  di Rafah. Lo riferisce l&#39;esercito israeliano. Il check point colpito si trova nei pressi del confine con l&#39;Egitto.
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN 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, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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A British archaeologist claimed to have found a large cave just west of Jerusalem which might have been occupied by Saint John the Baptist, the biblical figure who baptised Jesus Christ.
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Archaeologists in England have uncovered a treasure trove of Roman artifacts, including a 1,700-year-old "curse tablet" that asks for divine vengeance for a stolen cloak.
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An ancient gold mask and a ring featuring what is believed to be an Olympic rower have been discovered by a Bulgarian archaeologist.
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JERUSALEM, OCTOBER 17 : Israel launched a new incursion in the Rafah refugee camp in the Southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, for what the army said, is an operation to search for tunnels being used to smuggle arms from Egypt and to hunt down Palestinian
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In a symbolic act of personal reconciliation, two German students biked 5,000 kilometers from Berlin to Jerusalem to present Yad Vashem with a stone from a German concentration camp.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Sen. George Allen's mother hid her Jewish upbringing from her children until late last month to spare them the fear suffered by her father, who was imprisoned by the Nazis, The Washington Post reported Thursday. "What they put my father through.
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An Israeli organization charged with locating the property of victims of the Holocaust has put its findings on the Internet.
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Two Israelis suspected of having links to Mossad agency and jailed for trying to illegally obtain a New Zealand passport were released and deported early Wednesday, Israel Radio reported.
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Underneath the homes and ragged streets of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan lie the remnants of a glorious Jewish past: coins, seals, a water tunnel hewn by a Judean king 2,700 years ago, a road that led to a biblical Temple.
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Israeli authorities charge members of an alleged neo-Nazi group, in a case which has shocked the Jewish state.
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Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound &#151; offering rare insight into construction of the holiest site in Judaism.