One of the largest ceramic oil-lamp workshops in Israel has been discovered by Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in Beit Shemesh. Hundreds of ceramic oil lamps, two bearing symbols of the ...

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...

Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the ...

The mosaic floor excavations at Ramat Beit Shemesh. The spectacular remains of a 1,500-year-old (Byzantine Period) monastery and church decorated with mosaic floors and imported marble elements are ...

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Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet is both an Orthodox boom town and a site of ongoing tensions between different streams of religious Jews. BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA) — Built in the 1990s in part to ease ...

Disturbing documentation was published yesterday (Tuesday) from the city of Beit Shemesh in which Arab construction workers staged a raid on a house. The workers, who work at a construction site in ...

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Police on Monday morning reported that a stone that was thrown at an IDF soldier driving in the neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood caused the driver to deviate from his path and hit a ...