The mosque, in the Negev desert, contains "a square room and a wall facing the direction of Mecca" with a half-circle niche in that wall pointing south, the IAA said. "These unique architectural ...

Located some 30 kilometers north-east of Beersheba, the Yatir Forest in the Negev desert is one of Israel’s largest forests, with its millions of trees planted by the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient burial site containing numerous skeletons from 2,500 years ago, which may be the remains of trafficked women, in the Negev desert in southern Israel ...

I decided to tackle the Negev Desert, which makes up 60% of Israel’s terrain and includes over 745 miles of trails. According to Shahar Shilo, director of the Friendly Negev Desert Tourism ...

What they don’t bring to mind: the desert. But at a small cafe on a communal farm in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, a local winemaker was pouring a variety of deep crimson nectars last ...

“There are more and more areas within the Negev desert where we see farms.” It's not by chance, but by a generations-long program to make southern Israel's Negev desert bloom with lif ...

Over a decade ago, Matan Yaffe, an Israeli Jew, was motorbiking in the Negev desert when, all of a sudden, four young Bedouins surrounded him and threatened to take his bike. While Yaffe tried to ...

When Jesus headed out into the desert, he fasted for 40 days and was tempted by the devil. My own experience heading out of Jerusalem and into the Negev Desert was quite different. The Israeli ...