On 4 December, Israel released a map of southern Gaza divided into blocks ... ‘holy war’ on Hamas as he quoted the Hebrew Bible: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you”- a ...

Gaza first appears in Genesis 10:19 where it is demarcated as an outer border of Canaan. This is important – from the first book of the Bible, Gaza was considered geographically part of the Holy ...

“You must ‘remember what Amalek has done to you,'” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admonished on Oct. 28, as he announced the “second phase” of Israel’s war in Gaza, the ...

Last week, Netanyahu also invoked Jewish and Christian scripture to justify the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. "The Bible says that 'there is a time for peace and a time for war.' This is a time ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — The Palestinian farmers of Gaza are attuned to the rhythms of the Jewish calendar and have anxiously awaited this moment. Every seven years, the Bible commands farmers in the ...

Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu told Ashdod students last week that Hamas is like the ancient Amalek, which attacked the children of Israel right after the Exodus from Egypt, and then wrote in a ...