All episodes, tracing the history of the city from its earliest residents, can be found here:

In Jerusalem, history hides in other pieces of history. This is true of the traces Rome's famed Legion X, subject of our latest episode of "12 Stones of Jerusalem": https://t.co/tI2n3nG3O3

Two journalistic powerhouses, @LeviYonit and @biannagolodryga, of Israel's Channel 12 and CNN, sit down with @dansenor to explain why they teamed up to write a new YA novel, "Don't Feed the Lion":

Matti Friedman in Conversation With Simon Sebag Montefiore: "Jerusalem, Israel, and the World" Tune in for a live online broadcast of this fascinating encounter - this Sunday, November 16! 8 pm Israel time / 1 pm ET / 6 pm GMT You can watch this event online, here:

How did Zionism come to be understood as the paradigmatic case of settler colonialism—indeed, as racism itself? Before we seek an answer from postcolonial theory, perhaps it’s important to unearth a forgotten genealogy linking contemporary academic discourse to explicitly

Join me and the wonderful @simonmontefiore at the National Library of Israel on Nov. 16:

To understand our own era, go back 2,000 years, writes @MattiFriedman.

Paula Fredriksen splits her time between the 1st and 21st centuries. In my latest for @TheFP, I interview the great scholar of early Christianity about the era she studies and the one she inhabits, and why they sometimes seem similar: https://t.co/qbw0JWcsFv

The Stone on the Hilltop: The latest in the series "12 Stones," about the archaeology of Jerusalem, takes us to the top of an ordinary local hill that somehow became the "mountain of God." https://t.co/pw6njhDZd6

A new episode of "12 Stones of Jerusalem," this one about the City of David, Egyptian voodoo dolls, and the elusive traces of our city's most famous king:

1/ So, What’s Happening in Gaza? How did we reach this agreement? And where does this ceasefire leave both sides? Beyond the competing narratives and politically motivated spins, a complex and layered set of factors led to this ceasefire - and possibly, the end of the war.

“For the past two years, Israelis have been walking around with the feeling that some unknown muscle is tightly and involuntarily clenched. This is evident in the set lines on the faces of passersby, in the way people hunch their shoulders as if against the cold, in brittle and

On wounds that can be healed, and the ones that can't. A dispatch from a jubilant and scarred Israel, in my latest for @TheFP: https://t.co/4sJeLHQT9X

The first episode of "12 Stones," a new web series about archaeology in the most interesting city on earth (where I happen to live) is out. It's about the oldest human trace ever found here. From the great team at Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, narrated by me

“It has long been a source of mystery and intrigue that Qatar, a country smaller than Connecticut, could at once host Hamas leaders and Taliban envoys while also serving as the site of Al Udeid, the largest American military base on foreign soil. But this contradiction—the very

“For the Gaza information warriors, it’s not enough to acknowledge that there is hunger in Gaza. No. It must be premeditated genocide,” write our editors. Now, nuance is misconstrued as denial and journalism is confused with activism.

On the year anniversary of his murder, German soccer club Werder Bremen pay tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Israeli-American hostage kidnapped and executed by Hamas in Gaza: “May your memory be a revolution”.

ראש ממשלה שקיבל שנתיים, מאות אלפי חיילים ו-250 מיליארד שקל כדי להכריע את חמאס אומר שהוא עוד לא הצליח לעשות זאת

Long before the successes of the Mossad became the stuff of legend in the espionage world, a small ragtag band of young mizrachi Jews, without training or equipment, built the country’s first espionage arm to defend the nascent state. Their story with ⁦@MattiFriedman⁩:

ניסוח מדויק של מצב בלתי אפשרי: