Bureaucrats and diplomats attend World Heritage meeting, after US asked Israel to withdraw efforts to secure visas for foreign and education ministers

UN body, which Israel quit in 2019, to hold vote at Saudi Arabia conference; Likud MK accuses cultural organization of obscuring site's biblical significance

International cultural body says it will provide assistance amid worries over structural integrity of Aleppo's old city and Diyarbakir fortress, as well as 3 other locations

Residents of the village of Battir say the settlement has prevented them from accessing their lands

Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward

In an in-depth interview with expert archaeologist Tali Erickson-Gini, we hear that he who controls the spice (or garum and wine) controls the ancient world

Earliest traces of human presence in country reach back 100,000 years; its monuments preserve the legacy of a civilization that has kept identity through successive conquests

National park, which includes a synagogue and a necropolis and was a major center of Jewish life in the 2nd century, daubed with slogans associated with Bratslav Hasidim and Chabad

Discoveries made in Leibling House, a recently renovated cultural center, reveal the German foundations of much of Tel Aviv's Bauhaus-inflected 1930s construction

Shuri Castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa remains a UNESCO World Heritage site even though it was destroyed in World War II and then reconstructed