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IDF forces prevented an attempt by several groups of Israelis to reach Joseph's Tomb from several different entrances to the ...

At such a sacred site in the old Biblical city of Shechem in Jordan an altar and a sacred oak existed, according to a tradition preserved orally by the Hebrew people for some 1000 years before the ...

Excavations have been started at the site of the Biblical city of Shechem, first residence of the rulers of the northern Israelite’ Kingdom and first mentioned in the Bible in connection with ...

An IDF soldier was slightly injured Wednesday night during an IDF operation in the Samarian city of Shechem. During the operation, hundreds of Arabs threw stones and blocks at the forces who ...

A group of five Israeli men who entered the city of Shechem (Nablus), which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority, to pray at Kever Yosef (Joseph’s Tomb) on Monday night were ...

In Parshat Vayishlach, after Yaakov separates from Esav we read (Breisheet 33:18-20): Yaakov arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the Land of C’naan, when he came from Padan Aram.

The Ramban adds that although Yaakov knew that when his sons told Shechem and Chamor to circumcise the entire city that they were not intending on actually marrying in with this city.

The troubles grow until Abimelech fights against the city of Shechem; “and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt”.

At such a sacred site in the old Biblical city of Shechem in Jordan an altar and a sacred oak existed, according to a tradition preserved orally by the Hebrew people for some 1000 years before the ...