King david of israel

Jonathan and David: When elections turn friends into enemies

In the weeks ahead, Israelis will argue fiercely about the election and the country’s future. Jews elsewhere will have their own arguments about Israel, politics, and the Jewish community's future.

Let us ensure we do not let this election divide us. Pictured: Dismantling a sukkah in Ashdod, Oct. 5.
 Israelis ride their bicycles along the empty Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays.

The thought that changes everything - opinion

Newly restored Tomb of Yishai and Ruth atop Tel Hebron in the West Bank, September 15, 2026.

Hebron’s Jewish community finishes restoring tomb belonging to ancestors of biblical King David

KING DAVID, a detail of the early 16th-century marble statue by Michelangelo,   kept at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy.

From Saul's failure to David's reckoning, 'Human Kingship' examines the dangers of power - review


Behind Israel's ancient trifunctional society

A trifunctional society is defined as “one whose structure comprises three functional groups: clergy, nobility, and workers."

‘PRIESTS OF the Tabernacle,’ with high priest at center, wearing the ‘hoshen hamishpat.’ (Illustration from the 1897 ‘Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us,

Biblical ‘royal purple’ found at Timna offers look at King David wardrobe

The color, a bright shade of purple, was extracted from mollusks fished in the Mediterranean Sea through a very expensive process.

Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple,~1000 BCE, Timna Valley, Israel.

Just A Thought: The Capitol and holiness

Over the years, I have found that the best commentary to what happens in any given week is to be found in the 3,300-year-old text of the Torah portion.

An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of US President Donald Trump gather in front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, US, January 6, 2021

King David-era fort found in Israel's Golan Heights

The archaeologists think that the fort was built by the kingdom of Geshur, an ally of King David.

Ofri Eitan of the Kfar Hanasi pre-military Academi next to the engraved stone

Galilee’s geography backs historicity of Salomon’s kingdom, scholar says

How accurate is the Bible in its portrayal of the size of Salomon's Kingdom?

View from Har Meron looking NNE over the Dalton Plateau.

Grapevine October 13, 2019: Honoring the righteous

The physicians in the course are participating in a program initiated by Jewish Agency subsidiary, the Israel Experience, which specializes in educational tourism.

STUDY OF King David, 1866. (Depicts Sir Henry Taylor; Wikimedia Commons)

A parable of politics and machinations of our own time

Then there are the women, Batsheba (Adva Edni), and Avishag (Inbar Dannon), both opportunists, the former blatant, the latter not, each manipulating David for their own ends.

THE PAINTING ‘David Giving Thanks to God After the Death of Goliath’ by Charles Errard.

Galut or geula: Where are we?

We like to fantasize about the “glory days” of King David and King Solomon,an era when the Beit Hamikdash existed and the Levites sung and the sacrifices were offered. But was it all really so grand?

‘WAS THERE ever a better Israel than this one?’: Israel Air Force F-161s fly over the beaches of Tel Aviv on a recent Independence Day.

Philistine refuge of King David said to have been found

The excavation began in 2015 at the Khirbet al-Ra'i site, located between Kiryat Gat and Lachish, and was led by Prof. Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University.

Aerial view of the archaeological site at Khirbet a-Ra'i.

Archaeologists identify city gate from time of King David

The previously uncovered gate found in the area last year was cautiously identified to be a part of the biblical city of Zer.

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