Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta City of David. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta City of David. Mostrar todas las entradas

sábado, 23 de mayo de 2026

Palestinians HATE this: New archaeological excavations prove that Israel belongs to the Jews!





Oldest dam uncovered in Jerusalem dated to biblical kings

The newly uncovered structure suggests comprehensive urban planning for managing Jerusalem’s water supply as early as the late ninth century BCE and serves as clear evidence of the city’s power and sophistication.

A 2,800-year-old dam wall discovered in Jerusalem’s City of David. Credit: Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority.

( Aug. 27, 2025 / JNS )  The largest dam in ancient Israel, uncovered just outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, has been dated back to the time of the biblical kings, some 2,800 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.

The monumental dam, which runs about 12 meters high, more than 8 meters wide and 21 meters long, was excavated over the last two years in the history-rich ancient City of David.

martes, 16 de septiembre de 2025

‘God’s promise is eternal’: PM Netanyahu, Marco Rubio & Amb Huckabee inaugurate ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in Jerusalem’s City of David

Jerusalem ‘is our city forever, there will be no Palestinian state’, says Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and their wives at the inauguration of the ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in Jerusalem’s City of David, Sept. 15, 2025. (Photo: Haim Zach/GPO)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ambassador Mike Huckabee inaugurated the Pilgrimage Road, the ancient street leading to the Temple in the time of Jesus, in Jerusalem’s City of David on Monday.

The 2,000-year-old road had served pilgrims ascending to the Temple from the south, and had been excavated in a lengthy and controversial process, as the

sábado, 15 de marzo de 2025

New study proves Jerusalem was already a significant city during biblical King David's reign

New discoveries challenge old scientific positions.

The excavations at the City of David (Former Givati parking lot). (Photo: Shutterstock)

A recent revolutionary radiocarbon-based research and investigation of Jerusalem's First Temple Period has ignited fresh discussions regarding the historical accuracy of biblical narratives concerning King David's reign.

Spearheaded by researchers from the Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv University, and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the study challenges the prevailing idea that ancient Jerusalem was merely a diminutive hamlet during David's rule. Instead, it proposes a more intricate urban environment and sheds light on the city's early development.

miércoles, 6 de diciembre de 2023

Oldest ceramic rooftiles ever found in the Land of Israel

Ceramic tiles brought here at the time of the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus IV – of the Hanukkah story – have been discovered in the City of David.

Giv‘ati Parking Lot Excavations at the City of David
(photo credit: KOBI HARATI/CITY OF DAVID)

In a discovery perfectly timed for Hanukkah, archaeologists and other scientists at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Tel-Aviv University (TAU) have uncovered 16 of the oldest ceramic roofing tiles in the Land of Israel that provide a tangible connection with the story of the Festival of Lights. The findings were dated to the time of the Greek Seleucid King Antiochus IV.

miércoles, 4 de enero de 2023

Jerusalem’s Pool of Siloam to be excavated, opened to the public

The site is expected to become one of the city's most important historic and tourist sites.

A rendering of the Pool of Siloam in the Second Temple Period. Credit: Shalom Kveller/City of David Archives.

(December 27, 2022 / JNS) An ancient Jerusalem pool that was used by millions of Jewish pilgrims during the time of the Second Temple two millennia ago as a ritual bath before ascending the Temple Mount, and revered by Christians as the site where Jesus cured a blind man, will be fully excavated and then opened to the public, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday.

The Pool of Siloam, located in the southern portion of the City of David, the ancient epicenter of Jerusalem, and just outside the Old City walls is expected to become one of the most important historic and tourist sites in the city.

sábado, 30 de abril de 2022

Parks authority says it’s shelving Mount of Olives plan that angered church leaders

Plan to expand national park onto church-owned lands still appears on website of planning panel; parks authority: Project won’t be advanced without dialogue with church leaders.

Nuns pose for a selfie as they mark Palm Sunday on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

The Israel Nature and Parks Authority said Monday that it was withdrawing a controversial plan to expand a national park onto church-owned lands in East Jerusalem, amid opposition from local church leaders who denounced it as a “premeditated attack on the Christians in the Holy Land.”

The announcement came a day after a report by The Times of Israel exposing the project, which was slated to receive preliminary approval from the Jerusalem municipality’s Local Planning and Construction Committee approval on March 2.

A Journey Underneath Jerusalem from the City of David Down to the Gihon Spring





domingo, 20 de febrero de 2022

In 1st, Israel advancing plan to expand national park onto E. Jerusalem church lands

Visiting US lawmakers raise concern with PM about move slated to clear preliminary hurdle next month; church leaders blast plan to ‘nationalize one of Christianity’s holiest sites’.

The Church of the Russian Ascension, towering over the Mount of Olives, dates back to Helena, the mother of Byzantine emperor Constantine. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israeli officials are preparing to advance an unprecedented project to expand a national park onto church-owned lands and Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem, sparking fierce opposition from local Christian leaders, The Times of Israel has learned.

The move would not strip the landholders of their ownership, but it would give the government some authority over Palestinian and church properties and religious