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Rockefeller Archaeological Museum

Rabbi Yossi Friedman, left, holds a prayer at a flower memorial for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025, a day after the deadly terror attack targeting Jews. (AP/Mark Baker)
December 15, 2025, 2:38 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 15: Day 801 – Anguish in Australia after bloody Hanukkah terror attack
Diaspora reporter Zev Stub says Jewish leaders have sounded warnings for over a year but Canberra ignored; Religions reporter Rossella Tercatin on the history of Chabad candlelightings
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Zev Stub and Rossella Tercatin
The Rockefeller Museum. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 13, 2025, 9:34 am
Jerusalem’s ‘cursed’ antiquity museum reopens its doors amid rumors it may become a hotel
The Rockefeller Archaeological Museum stores some 60,000 artifacts spanning millennia, including unique decorations from the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
By Rossella Tercatin
From the exhibit 'Nurse, Nurse' at the Manofim art festival opening October 29, 2019, at Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem (Courtesy Tzadok Basan/Yad Ben Tzvi Collection)
October 29, 2019, 6:35 am
At historic Jerusalem hospital, art festival exhibit focuses on cries for help
The annual Manofim event celebrating capital’s contemporary artists opens October 29 with ‘Nurse, Nurse’
By Jessica Steinberg
Rhonda Spivak
January 3, 2017, 2:17 pm
Rhonda Spivak
Could Israel lose the Dead Sea Scrolls?
UN Resolution 2334 hands Qumran to the Palestinians, raising the absurd specter of the PA appropriating Jewish history
The Ghassulian Star on exhibit at the Israel Antiquities Authority's new headquarters on November 10, 2016. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
November 13, 2016, 12:03 pm
Mysterious 6,000-year-old star mural sees first daylight in Jerusalem
The Ghassulian Star, discovered in Jordanian cave in 1930s, is briefly taken from East Jerusalem museum to be displayed at Israel Antiquities Authority headquarters across town
By Ilan Ben Zion
The Judean Desert's Cave of Skulls, where six Palestinians illegally dug for antiquities and were arrested on November 30, 2014. (Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
May 16, 2016, 8:07 am
In new crackdown, antiquities authorities tighten noose around dealers, thieves
Regulatory agency mandates digital database, ‘closing the loopholes’ to prevent stolen artifacts reaching the Israeli market
By Ilan Ben Zion
A 30-meter deep shaft dug in the yard of an East Jerusalem home by unidentified people claiming to be municipal workers fixing a water leak. (Israeli Police spokesperson)
August 31, 2015, 5:17 pm
Mysterious shaft dug near archaeological museum in East Jerusalem
Unidentified suspects told elderly woman they were fixing a leak, excavated 100-foot-deep hole in her yard next to Rockefeller Museum
By Ilan Ben Zion and Stuart Winer
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