920 years ago, Crusaders breached Jerusalem and conquered the walled Fatimid city. Now the Mount Zion Project has found a chronicled moat that to many scholars had seemed like myth

Unclear whether fivefold fall in blazes in border region is due to improved IDF abilities or fewer launches of balloon-borne incendiaries

Nature Defense Force, launched five years ago, maps important nesting sites in firing-range areas to protect trees from brush fires

Israel Nature and Parks Authority joins Interpol, Europol and more than 20 nations in major international clampdown on illegal smuggling and keeping of reptiles

Complete reconstruction of ruins can be controversial, but adapting ancient buildings to modern uses is part of a worldwide trend to breathe more life into archaeological sites

Imaging scan reveals cracked shell not as serious as having to give birth. Treated and released to lay her eggs

Rare nest found perched on cliff face at Hai Bar Nature Reserve, just two weeks after griffon vulture population on Golan Heights was decimated in poisoning incident

President mourns death of 8 vultures killed in Golan as one bird who fell ill in incident returned to the wild in 'a moment of hope'

Lawyer says suspect, a rancher, denies deliberately contaminating cow carcass, wiping out about half the vulture population in the area

Man in his 30s from Galilee village said to have sprayed toxin on cow carcass to keep predators away, leading to deaths of half of local species population