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Sa'ar to bring Armenian Genocide recognition to vote, cites Israel's 'moral, historical duty'

As of 2026, 32 UN member states, including the United States, Canada, Russia, and Germany, have formally recognized the genocide.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attends an honorary session at Paraguay's bicameral Congress in Asuncion on November 24, 2025, as part of his official visit to the country.
Visitors view the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, at the British Museum in London on January 9, 2023.

Greece calls for return of Parthenon Statues from British Museum at UNESCO, backed by 20 countries

Greece and Turkey argue that Lord Elgin had no firman permissing him to remove the artifacts, while the UK claims Elgin had all necessary documents and brought the Statues to Britian legally.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
The Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Armenian Quarter residents descend from genocide survivors, bishop says ahead of exclusive tours

Dating back nearly two millennia, the Armenian Church’s presence in Jerusalem is widely considered the longest unbroken Christian presence in the Old City. 

|BySAM HALPERN
Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes (left) and François Marie Denis Georges-Picot (Illustrative).

Sykes-Picot should be replaced by a new Trump-Netanyahu regional order - opinion

Sykes-Picot was never a peace settlement. It was a colonial carve-up that fathered every subsequent conflict in the region. For the first time since 1916, a new order can be established.

|ByYARON SCHWARTZ

Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

OCTOBER 30, 2017ByBENJAMIN GLATT
Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along the trail that their ancestors took as troops when they made their way to Beersheba.

Max of Arabia

A 100-year-old bestseller managed to predict some of the future.

AUGUST 8, 2017BySEAN DURNS
Men on camels near Wadi Rum

Preferring Ottoman Turkey to Erdogan's Turkey - a Jewish perspective

JULY 30, 2017ByBARRY SHAW
The Jerusalem Post

Turkey says Jews should appreciate the Ottoman Empire

The Turkish foreign minister charges that life was better for the Jews before the Jewish state.

JULY 27, 2017ByHERB KEINON
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 13, 2017.

Relic from Ottoman sultan returned to Jaffa, after extensive renovations

Israeli archeologists restore seal of Sultan Hamid Abdul II, builder of the Jaffa Clock Tower.

DECEMBER 13, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
The marble plaque bearing the sultan’s seal prior to conservation; the seal itself cannot be discerned

WWI, in Palestine

By October 1, 1918, Allied forces were in Damascus; Palestine was free of the 613-year-old Ottoman overlords.

OCTOBER 26, 2016BySTEVE SATTLER
AUSTRALIANS TAKE part in a World War I reenactment near Beersheba in 2007

Grapevine: Happy birthday, Alice

The German-born Shalvi spent much of her youth in England and graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in English literature.

OCTOBER 15, 2016ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Reuven Rivlin

In disputed Sussiya, old Ottoman law still casts a shadow over the land

Ottoman law continues to influence court decisions, as the state neglects to act on land disputes.

AUGUST 19, 2016BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A man sits with his family inside their tent in Sussiya

Diamonds in the rough

The newly restored Turkish Bazaar and Turkish bath Hamam Ghattas in Acre's Old City offer visitors a unique boutique experience.

JUNE 2, 2013ByYONI COHEN
Turkish Bazaar, Acre 370

No magic Syrian solution

The background to Turkey’s current dilemmas with Damascus can be traced back to the ruins of the Ottoman Empire

MAY 22, 2013ByBRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN
Hands off Syria521