Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ...

“It just doesn’t fit,” I told my son in 2007. At the time, he was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During a break in his classes, we decided to explore a coastal town in the ...

Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai before the wandering Israelites entered the promised land of Israel after fleeing Egypt, according to the Bible. So one might assume that said ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

The operation has been controversial in Egypt. Egyptians spoke to Al-Ahram about the importance of the day. Sunrise is seen from the summit of Mount Sinai in Egypt. (credit: Amr Abdallah Dalsh ...

in search of Mount Sinai, where the Bible recounts God revealing the Ten Commandments to Moses. For many centuries people have believed the location to be in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, near the ...

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has publicly stated that Egypt will not allow a displacement ... stop on a trail leading up to the peak of Mount Sinai in St Catherine, on December 9, 2013 [Hiro ...

Immediately after the exodus from Egypt, the Jewish people enter the Sinai Desert. Forty days later, they receive the Torah at Mount Sinai. While it is fair to assume that Mount Sinai is located ...

Greece and Egypt have launched a diplomatic effort to reaffirm the status of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, one of the most ...

The mountain we had climbed is the conventional location for Mount Sinai deep in the south-central part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. What we saw that morning was stunning. In the unforgiving ...

Both Mount Sinai and the Land of Israel are described as holy. God blesses Avraham in Breisheet 15:18: “To your descendants I have given this land, from Nahar Mitzrayim (the river of Egypt ...