Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a sunny and crisp Jerusalem winter day, a moderate crowd of vendors with old-fashioned trolleys, women wearing ...

Jewish leaders around the world expressed outrage this weekend after the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a major figure in Jewish history and mysticism, was desecrated in Damascus, Syria. The Alliance ...

When a delegation of US Jews visited Syria at the invitation of the interim government in February, one of their stops was to a small shrine in a corner of Damascus ... s main gate and entered ...

A Border Police officer was lightly wounded Sunday evening in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City. The assailant attacked the officer with a sharp object ...

Vital’s writings, including Etz Chaim ("Tree of Life") and Shaar HaGilgulim ("The Gate of Reincarnations ... In his later years, Vital relocated to Damascus, where he lived until his death ...

A 20-year-old police officer was lightly wounded on Sunday evening in a stabbing attack at the Damascus Gate in the Old City, Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. Magen David Adom (MDA) EMTs and ...

See 544UND/BA34 (Voyager # 326124). The title, "The 'New Calvary' outside the Damascus Gate, Jerusalem," is printed in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Greek. Also printed ...