The archaeological excavation site on Mount Gerizim, near Shechem, was officially inaugurated in a special ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud), ...

On the summit of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, members of the Samaritan community -- one of the smallest religious communities in the world -- build their homes, believing the spot ...

The tragedy is that the Samaritans could not be integrated into the Jewish people as a whole. But it was they who refused. The city of Jerusalem was most vital on the pilgrimage holidays of Passover, ...

A nearly completely intact clay oil lamp from 2,300 years ago was found near a stone bath during recent conservation work at the Mount Gerizim National Park. “It is great to find something even after ...

MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank (AFP) — Men and boys dressed in white led the sheep to their fate, pushing and dragging them to a narrow, stone-lined trench on the mountaintop ceremonial ground. The tiny ...

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Dozens of Samaritans, a small religious sect based in the West Bank city of Nablus, performed their annual Sukkah pilgrimage on Sunday to the nearby Mount Gerizim. Samaritans perform the ritual every ...

Hodge-podge. That precise, academic term is the first that used to come to my mind when thinking of the Book of Deuteronomy. And it didn’t bother me that this was so; in fact, it seemed most fitting.

Members of the Samaritan sect participate in the traditional Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on April 22, 2024.(Photo; Xinhua) Members of the Samaritan sect ...

MOUNT GERIZIM - An ethnoreligious group descended from the ancient Semitic inhabitants of the region, the Samaritans say theirs is the true religion of the ancient Israelites. Samaritanism is ...