Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

How Israel safeguards archaeological treasures amid Iranian attacks

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: Museum staff members across Israeli institutions face the challenge of protecting some of the most important artifacts of humankind.

 ‘THEY ARE are organic. They can be burned.’ Ivory artifacts, like the figurines pictured here, were among the highest priority artifacts to be removed from the museum to safety.
 HAGIT AND UZI Rosenzweig at the opening of their late son’s exhibition, ‘Kuma,’ at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.

Fallen soldier Eitan Rosenzweig’s art is on display at the Bible Lands Museum

 The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

Check out the new exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem

 THE TOWER of David Museum: Telling 4,000 years of Jerusalem history.

Jerusalem highlights January 12-18


Grapevine August 6, 2021: Feeding the hungry

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 ANAT BERNSTEIN-REICH with Yigal Toledano.

Delayed by a plague of biblical proportions

Awaiting the opening of Beit Shemesh’s Biblical Museum of Natural History.

BEIT SHEMESH’S new Biblical Museum of Natural History, the opening os which has been put on hold by COVID-19 restrictions.

Grapevine February 14, 2020: Of marriage, children and hope

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Bible Lands Museum

1,500-year-old Byzantine Church with stunning mosaics discovered in Beit Shemesh

The building has been named the “Church of the Glorious Martyr,” after the figure to whom the church was devoted according to an inscription, and whose identity remains a mystery.

The church in Ramat Beit Shemesh.

A focus on Beit Shemesh

Beit Shemesh, at the crossroads between Jerusalem and coast, has been inhabited since earliest times, going back to the pre-biblical Canaanite civilization from whom its idolatrous name originates.

Dr. Yudah Govrin at the archeological site at Tel Beit Shemesh

Kishor wine-tasting warms hearts at Bible Lands

The event celebrated the award-winning wines produced by the special-needs Kibbutz.

The winery is staffed by members of Kishorit, a kibbutz of 175 special-needs people in the Western Galilee.

Art in at the deep blue end

The museum’s annual summertime arts festival goes by the name of Andrelamuse Blues and casts its net over a broad stretch of disciplines and art forms.

THE VIDEO ART installation courtesy of Shlomit Yaakov. THE VIDEO ART installation courtesy of Shlomit Yaakov (August 20, 2018).

GRAPEVINE: Israeli Originality

Matisyahu (file photo)

A biblical story retold

The relic, which is currently on display, is part of the Genesis Apocryphon, which contains a description, in Aramaic, of the lives of Noah, Abraham, Enoch and Lamech.

The Samson family just after making aliya in 1996The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition has attracted millions of visitors over the past half century

Where focus on the Bible is more than a hobby

The expansive, breathtaking new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, may be funded by Evangelicals, but it has more than a few touches from the modern State of Israel.

VISITORS WALK through an exhibit room during a preview day at the Museum of the Bible last month

Lever le voile sur le roi David

Le récit du combat de David contre Goliath divise encore les historiens. L’exposition du musée des Pays de la Bible pourrait sceller le débat

Objets exposés au Musée des Pays de la Bible