By celebrating Shavuot, we celebrate our connection to the land and our ability to make the desert bloom. It is our Garden of ...

Apparently, the Hebrews didn’t have that problem, because when God promised them a land flowing with milk and honey, they ...

Ancient Palestine was occupied by several different nations throughout its history. What do we know about them?

The Bible, which Abbas claims to rely on, if anything, disavows any claim of title to the Land of Israel by the Canaanites. The Bible is the oldest extant written record of title. It is careful to ...

As the medieval commentator Ibn Ezra reminds us, who were the Canaanites? They were the nation that Israel had to conquer in order to possess the land. They had to subjugate them. Not enslave them.

Founded by the Phoenicians [=Canaanites] in the ninth century BCE ... they were not entitled to the land and owed debts and servitude. Unable to respond to Geviha’s argument, the Africans ...

This would put pressure on the civilian population to leave, taking Hamas with it. Neither of these policies has shown much ...

The Canaanites occupied the Levant, sometimes known as Syria-Palestine, during the Bronze Age (c. 3300-1200 BCE). They developed all the hallmarks of an advanced culture, including art ...

Until recently, no meaningful Canaanite inscriptions had been discovered in the Land of Israel, save only two or three words here and there. Now an amazing discovery presents an entire sentence in ...