The coins depict Alexander Jannaeus, who was king of Judaea from 103 B.C. to 76 B.C. Jannaeus, a Jewish leader of the Hasmonean dynasty, predated the destruction of the Second Temple, which was a ...
As Chaim Weizman famously said and then Nathan Alterman turned into the famous poem, we all know, “A state is not handed down on a silver platter.” Thank you to all those responsible for maintaining ...
This rebellion against Roman rule in Judaea, led by the Jewish military commander Simon Bar Kokhba, was initially successful, but it ended after Bar Kokhba was killed at a stronghold in the ...