An incredibly ambitious (and expensive) series on the Yom Kippur War is about to begin on October 19. It is called "Sha'at HaNeilah" ...

Israeli superstar Gal Gadot - recently named the 3rd-highest paid actress in the world by Forbes - was just cast as Cleopatra in the new...

Over the course of two days at the end of September 1941, in a ravine known as Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) below the Ukranian city of Kyiv...

Well here is a blast from the past. A 1-minute video from 1897 at Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate was just colorized and digitized. My favorite...

Israel and Lebanon have fought two wars in the past 40 years as well as a "war between the wars" when Israel was stuck in Southern...

On Friday night we begin Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. In ancient times this was the most popular Jewish holiday and I have to say,...

Yom Kippur starts tonight in Israel. Here's what you should know about Yom Kippur in Israel this year, from your intrepid tour guide of...

With all the talk about Israel and the Arab World these past few weeks, and the changing Middle East, it is easy to look past what is...

Acclaimed historian and author - and former Israeli Ambassador to the US - Michael Oren, will be giving a talk on the 6-Day War on Zoom...

As your tour guide of Israel - and guide to Israel's arts and culture scene - this past week has been full of huge announcements. Let's...

Yesterday was a truly momentous occasion. Two Gulf Arab States, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed peace agreements with Israel....

As a tour guide of Israel, and one who leads a mean Israel culinary tour at that, I would be a total fraud if I did not know the name...

Some of the greatest architectural sites and innovations in world history happened in Israel. Rogem Hiri is a 5000 year-old megalithic...

I will be honest here. The only gefilte fish debates I ever knew usually revolved around why would you want to eat that in the first...

One of the major issues in doing archaeology in Israel is that often times villages and towns in the last one hundred years have been...

An old adage simply says "location, location, location." Well, due to being in the right place - and time - Israel - a land bereft of...

The diplomatic breakthroughs just keep on coming around here. Fresh on the heels of the UAE and Israel opening up official relations -...

Just down the street from my apartment (this is becoming a common refrain) an incredible find was unearthed in a archaeological dig,...

Earlier this week, Israel's first-ever flight to the United Arab Emirates landed in Abu Dhabi. It was indeed a momentous occasion, in...

A few months back, I visited the grave of the most famous Englishman ever: William Shakespeare... Did you know he was buried in Jerusalem?...