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After 200 years in ruin: Greece unveils complete restoration of Parthenon's western pediment

The external scaffolding hiding the Parthenon’s western face was removed in early June following the completion of the monument’s back wall.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
The restored western face of the Parthenon, Greece, July 2, 2026.
Members of the Armenian community in Jaffa perform a pray during a memorial service held to mark the 106th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, at the Armenian Church of Saint Nicholas, in Jaffa, April 24, 2021.

Israel officially recognizes Armenian Genocide after decades of diplomatic friction - analysis

Israel’s recognition of the genocide has been decades in the making. It's been a strange aspect of Israel’s history that, for many years, the Armenian genocide was downplayed in official circles.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar attends an honorary session at Paraguay's bicameral Congress in Asuncion on November 24, 2025, as part of his official visit to the country.

Sa'ar to bring Armenian Genocide recognition to vote, cites Israel's 'moral, historical duty'

As of 2026, 32 UN member states, including the United States, Canada, Russia, and Germany, have formally recognized the genocide.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Visitors view the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, at the British Museum in London on January 9, 2023.

Greece calls for return of Parthenon Statues from British Museum at UNESCO, backed by 20 countries

Greece and Turkey argue that Lord Elgin had no firman permissing him to remove the artifacts, while the UK claims Elgin had all necessary documents and brought the Statues to Britian legally.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

Galilee Gold: A noble novel inspired by a Bedouin sheikh

Many echoes in Pam’s beautifully crafted novel, arouse the reader’s interest.

APRIL 22, 2021ByPESSY KRAUSZ
An artistic representation of Daher el-Omar, by Ziad Daher Zedani

Erdogan: 'Jerusalem is our city, a city from us'

Erdogan referred to the Ottoman Empire's rule over Jerusalem, which lasted four centuries (1517-1917), to justify his claim.

OCTOBER 3, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Kinneret College to commemorate 102 years since the battle of Tzemach

The results of the battle had the potential to shift the power balance in the Middle Eastern theater during World War I.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020ByDANIEL NISINMAN
A monument marking the legacy of the Australian Cavalry in the Kinnert Campus

Turkey has no interest in peace in the Eastern Med

Turkey's misguided vision of Pan-Islamism brings with it a culturally dominant form of political Islam and militant Jihadism

AUGUST 31, 2020ByEDY COHEN
A man gestures as people wait for the beginning of Friday prayers outside Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, for the first time after it was once again declared a mosque after 86 years, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2020

Erdoğan believes he is restoring Turkey to greatness. Is he?

The Erdoğan vision is to recreate the period of Turkish and Ottoman greatness.

AUGUST 31, 2020ByMICAH HALPERN
DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST a visit of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, March 2020.

Turkey to inform UNESCO on Hagia Sophia after converting it back to mosque

The site was inscribed onto UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1985 under Historic Areas of Istanbul, along with other points of significance in the city.

JULY 13, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan originally proposed re-titling Hagia Sophia as a mosque instead of a museum in March, and last month proposed restoring mosque status to the 6th-century landmark.

Greek PM chides Turkey for genocide against Christians

The Prime Minister blasted Ankara for its current foreign policy that, he said, is ignoring international law on the high seas.

DECEMBER 8, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Bosnian Jews, Muslims recall lesson in tolerance as extremism rises globally

Bosnia's Jews and Muslims on Thursday marked the bicentenary of the rescue of a dozen Jews from an Ottoman-era governor's jail.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019ByREUTERS
Synagogue in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo

Book review: The genocide of Anatolia’s Christians

New book goes beyond Turkey’s mass murder of Armenians to address its treatment of Greeks and Assyrians

JULY 17, 2019ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child in a field “within sight of help and safety at Aleppo.”

Why Tevye the Milkman made aliyah

Tzvi Fishman is simultaneously a jokester and a deadly serious, prolific author with profound ideological commitments.

JANUARY 4, 2019ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
TZVI FISHMAN: Life in Israel is a constant adventure.