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Mar Saba Monastery located near Jericho.

Jericho, Cholula, Luoyang, Plovdiv: Explore the world's oldest cities

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Mount of Temptation, Jericho.

With more than 11,000 years of history, Jericho is the oldest inhabited city in the world

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF soldiers besiege the homes of Palestinian terror suspects near Jericho, in the West Bank, on February 4, 2023

Shin Bet thwarts plan to kidnap Israelis near Jericho, suspects indicted

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , ALON HACHMON , Avi Ashkenazi

A man identified as US Air Force soldier Aaron Bushnell, 25, moments before setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC.

West Bank city names street after self-immolating US soldier Aaron Bushnell

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

An image of the ancient Jericho archaeological site.

We must reassert Jewish ties to 'Palestinian' land - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

UNESCO names ancient Jericho a World Heritage site in Palestine

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A general view of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris

Israeli delegation in Saudi Arabia for UNESCO’s World Heritage meeting

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

THE WRITER tours the area of Jericho. ‘UNESCO is undermining the biblical significance of Jericho,’ he says.

UNESCO lies: Jericho is not in 'Palestine' because no such state exists - opinion

IDF female combat soldiers.

WATCH: Israel Police elite unit thwarts terror attack in Jericho

By MAYA ZANGER-NADIS

Members of Imam al-Mahdi scouts carry a picture of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a religious procession to mark Ashura in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon

How seriously should we take Nasrallah's threats?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An image of the ancient Jericho archaeological site.

UNESCO to rule on ancient Jericho as Palestinian World Heritage site

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

IDF soldiers operate in the West Bank. May 22, 2023

10 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli forces near Jericho - report

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Israeli border police officer aims his weapon as another prepares to fire tear gas canisters towards Palestinian demonstrators protesting against Israeli settlements near Nablus in the West Bank, April 10, 2023.

Palestinian teen killed in IDF West Bank raid - Palestinian sources

By REUTERS

People hold placards as they mourn Elan Ganeles, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen killed in a shooting attack while he was driving near the West Bank city of Jericho by a suspected Palestinian gunman, during his funeral, outside the cemetery, in Raanana, Israel, March 1, 2023

'He was the ultimate friend': American-Israeli Elan Ganeles laid to rest

Israeli soldiers patrol near Beit HaArava, an Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the West Bank, located near the Dead Sea and Jericho at the eponymous Beit HaArava Junction

WATCH: IDF nab suspects who murdered American-Israeli Elan Ganeles

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Elan Ganeles, the American Jewish victim of a terrorist shooting attack near the Beit HaArava Junction on Highway 90 in the Jordan Valley, February 27, 2023

Elan Ganeles, American Jewish victim of terror, remembered by friends

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA , BEN SALES/JTA

Israeli security forces guard at the scene of a shooting attack in Bet Ha'Arava Junction, in the Jordan Valley, February 27, 2023

Elan Ganeles identified as US citizen murdered in terror attack near Jericho

IDF soldiers besiege the homes of Palestinian terror suspects near Jericho, in the West Bank, on February 4, 2023

Is Jericho the next Palestinian terror hub after Jenin, Nablus?

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH