Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a rare ancient mosque in the country's south that the antiquities officials said sheds light on the region's transition from Christianity to Islam. The ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. More than 1,500 years ago, an ancient Arab people built a Christian ...

This is an archaeological-tourism initiative led by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, taking place as part of the Heritage Seeds Vineyard project in southern Israel. Ancient grape varieties ...

The Rifman Institute for the Development of the Negev was established about four years ago by Bedouins and Jews in memory of Shmulik Rifman z”l, one of the Negev’s prominent leaders. The Institute has ...

Last week, archaeologists discovered one of the world’s oldest mosques beneath Rahat, in the south of Israel. There, construction on a new neighborhood in the world’s largest Bedouin city uncovered “a ...

The Negev Desert is the last place most people imagine fine wine being made. Its arid landscapes conjure sun-bleached rock, acacia trees clinging to survival and heat so fierce it seems more likely to ...

Khalil Le'Moor, an Arab resident of the Negev, recounts the threat facing his community of demolitions and expulsion by the Israeli government. Deep in the south of Israel in an Arab region known as ...

Using a unique field site in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev geologists have presented the first-ever time-dependent record of drainage divide migration rates. Prof. Liran Goren, her ...