The first statement had already been acknowledged as an error by the management of BBC Arabic, and the article had been amended to make clear that the lake lay within recognised Israeli territory ...

Editor’s note • The Salt Lake Tribune’s senior religion writer, Peggy Fletcher Stack, is on assignment in the Middle East. Besides her deeper reporting, she is sharing shorter daily dispatches. This ...

THE WATER level of the Sea of Galilee, on which Jesus supposedly walked, is a national obsession in Israel. Newspapers report its rise and fall next to the weather forecast. Lately the sea, which is ...

The Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is featured in this 15 Aug. 2009 image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on the International Space Station. Israel’s largest freshwater lake is also ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Several earthquakes, including one measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, jolted the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel on Wednesday morning. Most of the earthquakes, known as a swarm, ...

This painting was taken from the southwestern shore of the Lake, or Sea. The first prominent objects seen in the foreground are the Volcanic-Rocks. The growth of vegetation shown is of thistles and ...

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The mosque was built in the late 600s. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The remains of one of the earliest mosques on record, ...

A new article published today in PLOS ONE by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s Institute of Archaeology team and colleagues focused on the remains of a previously submerged ...

An old piece of ordnance was discovered in the waters of the Sea of Galilee near the Scots Hotel Beach. Police forces sealed off the area, cleared swimmers from the site, and are working to neutralize ...