Israel fumes as UNESCO weighs designating ancient Jericho as Palestinian heritage site
Officials stress area carries major significance not only to Jewish people – being the site where, according to the Bible, ...
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US formally rejoins UNESCO 5 years after withdrawal
The Biden administration has requested $150 million for the 2024 budget to go toward UNESCO dues and arrears.
Smotrich to PM: Condition Israeli support for US return to UNESCO
Exclusive: The finance minister suggests Israel should only support the move if the Palestinian Authority is removed as a member.
US decides to rejoin UNESCO, pay back dues
While Palestinian membership in UNESCO was the trigger for the US fallout with the agency, its return is more about ...
Egypt to bring historic areas of Cairo back to life
Renovations of Historic Cairo begin as many parts of the thousand-year-old World Heritage Site are deteriorating.
3,500-year-old clay tablet repatriated to Iraq
Looted from Iraqi museum 30 years ago, $1.7 million Gilgamesh Dream tablet contains portion of Epic of Gilgamesh, considered to ...
UNESCO awards heritage status to German Jewish centers
The cities Mainz, Worms and Speyer were centers of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages and are referred to as ...
Australia fights UNESCO plan to downgrade Great Barrier Reef from World Heritage site
UN cultural body wants to reclassify the natural site after warming waters lead to loss of half its legendary corals.
Tool pre-dating modern humans identified in northern Israel
Stone originally discovered in the 1960s was re-examined and researchers discovered it was used to grind materials, probably soft ones, ...
Lapid admonishes Belgian ambassador over anti-Semitic festival
"I told him that if there was a possibility of pressing charges in Belgium I will do it myself, as ...