Tower of David Museum

Awake Jerusalem to bring Christian leaders from 51 nations to Tower of David

The October 3 music festival is part of a ten-day Eagles’ Wings delegation that has brought more than 550 Christian leaders to Israel ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7 attack.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Eagles’ Wings founder and president Bishop Robert Stearns - Awake Jerusalem 2026
THE IDEA for this year’s global meditation grew out of an event Michal Lichtman organized in Jerusalem last year as part of her initiative, Migdalor – Growing Light.

Spiritual guide promotes worldwide meditation event to mark 25th anniversary of September 11 attack

Michal Lichtman, a spiritual guide who works with people on developing awareness and what she describes as their “inner light,” has proposed an international meditation to be held on Friday.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
A rare Judean Pillar Figurine mold dating to the First Temple period found in the Tower of David, July 27, 2026.

First Temple-era figurine mold unearthed in Jerusalem's 'most significant excavation' in decades

Tower of David Museum Chief Curator Eilat Lieber said that "the discovery of the first mold for producing figurines dating to the First Temple period has generated tremendous excitement."

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
In total there were 33 participants, each representing a different Jerusalem school – religious, secular, and mixed.

How well do you know Israel’s capital? Take the Jerusalem Quiz

At the Tower of David Jerusalem Museum, middle school students from 33 Jerusalem schools put their knowledge to the test this week at the Jerusalem Quiz.

|ByPENINA HOROWITZ

Tower of David: Exposing the Citadel’s secrets

Imagine a few centuries ago, an Ottoman soldier as he walks along Jerusalem’s city wall. Perhaps it was a long and windy winter night, perhaps a summer day, right after dawn.

NOVEMBER 5, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
UNRAVELING ENIGMAS at the Tower of David.

Cornerstone laid in Jerusalem. Find out where

The Patrick and Lina Drahi Entrance Pavilion will open to visitors in 2022 and will be constructed of steel, stone and glass.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021ByMICHAL GALANTI
Danny Mamiran, Eilat Lieber, Angelina Drahi and Patrick Drahi

Jerusalem's archaeological secrets explored in Tower of David pavilion

The construction works to build the new structure by the Jaffa Gate have opened rare archaeological opportunities.

OCTOBER 31, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
THE TOWER of David Museum

Jerusalem highlights: September 24-30

What's new in Israel's capital in the upcoming week.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021ByHAGAY HACOHEN
TOWERS IN the Air at the Tower of David Museum.

Coin from 2nd Temple Mount era found during Tower of David conservation

Tyrian shekels are often mentioned in historical accounts from the Second Temple Period, but a very few have actually been found.

MARCH 29, 2021ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
The Tyre coin recently discovered at the Tower of David Museum.

This week in Jerusalem: Spread of the red

Peggy Cidor's round-up of city affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020ByPEGGY CIDOR
Work being done to renew the Tower of David.

Iconic Tower of David to display new finds in major $40 million renewal

Jerusalem Mayor: Tower of David links Old City of Jerusalem to new city; and its renovation benefits the entire urban landscape

OCTOBER 26, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Work at the Tower of David on October 26, 2020.

My Word: Culture, corona and the Banai clan

Two years in the making, the exhibition couldn’t have come at a better – or stranger – time.

JUNE 25, 2020ByLIAT COLLINS
Retired judge Yitzhak Banai and his wife, Simcha, their son Eviatar Banai, music historian Yoav Kutner, exhibition curator Tal Kobo, Gavri Banai, and Eilat Lieber, museum director, pose for a photo at the Tower of David Museum.

A night at the (Tower of David) museum

In addition, the museum is holding a competition for one family to win spending a night at the museum sleeping in luxurious “glamping” tent under the Jerusalem skies.

MAY 11, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
THE TOWER of David Museum

Harel Brigade Fighters Heritage: Keeping the Palmach legacy alive

Of all the fighters of the Independence war, only three men are still with us: David Levin, Avraham Savir (Stashevsky) and Shmuel Lalkin, all in their mid-90s

FEBRUARY 7, 2020ByPEGGY CIDOR
THE GROUP: (front row, left to right) Eliezer Ben-Ami, responsible for making the hand grenade that blew up Barasani and Feinstein; Shmuel Lalkin; and David Levin. (Back row) Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Museum, and Yonni Amir, head of the Harel Association.