Updated: Dozens killed in stampede at Israeli religious festival
Updated 3.30pm (AEDT)Mount Meron, IsraelReuters At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy disaster”. The crush occurred as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi […]
Discovery of ancient synagogue in Israel hailed as confirming Biblical accounts of Jesus’ ministry
The discovery of the remains of an ancient synagogue in Israel are being hailed as confirmation of the historic accounts of Jesus contained in the New Testament. The synagogue’s remains, which is located at Tel Rechesh, a site in the lower Galilee, reportedly represent those of one of only eight synagogues discovered in Israel that date […]