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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

UNESCO World Heritage Site

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay speaks during the opening ceremony of the UNESCO Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee at the al-Murabba Palace in Riyadh on September 10, 2023. (Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
September 10, 2023, 7:37 pm
In first, Israeli officials in Saudi Arabia for UNESCO conference
Bureaucrats and diplomats attend World Heritage meeting, after US asked Israel to withdraw efforts to secure visas for foreign and education ministers
By Lazar Berman
Tell es-Sultan in Jericho on September 29, 2011 (Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)
September 5, 2023, 3:19 pm
UNESCO to vote on Ancient Jericho joining World Heritage list as site in Palestine
UN body, which Israel quit in 2019, to hold vote at Saudi Arabia conference; Likud MK accuses cultural organization of obscuring site’s biblical significance
By ToI Staff
This combination of pictures created on February 6, 2023, shows a picture taken on July 3, 2016, showing the minaret of the mosque inside of the UNESCO-listed citadel, in the regime-controlled northern Syrian city of Aleppo (L) and a picture taken on February 6, 2023, of the same tower following an earthquake (AFP)
February 7, 2023, 4:04 pm
UNESCO sounds alarm over earthquake damage to Turkey, Syria heritage sites
International cultural body says it will provide assistance amid worries over structural integrity of Aleppo’s old city and Diyarbakir fortress, as well as 3 other locations
By AFP
The West Bank village of Battir, one of the last farming villages to use irrigation systems from Roman times (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
March 16, 2022, 8:37 am
Settlers put up illegal outpost in UNESCO heritage area in West Bank — report
Residents of the village of Battir say the settlement has prevented them from accessing their lands
By ToI Staff
Tina (far right), an Arab resident of Acre, with some of her neighbors. She tried to protect the Jewish-owned gallery where she worked during the recent unrest in the mixed city, and is asking how and why this happened in her city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 3, 2021, 7:45 pm
In Acre, known for Arab-Jewish coexistence, residents grapple with recent unrest
Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward
By Jessica Steinberg
Tourists visiting Al-Khazneh 'the Treasury' in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, November 11, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 7, 2021, 7:05 am
Podcast: Proof that Nabateans’ trade empire collapsed due to ancient epidemic
In an in-depth interview with expert archaeologist Tali Erickson-Gini, we hear that he who controls the spice (or garum and wine) controls the ancient world
By ToI Staff
Chinese tourists from Hong Kong visiting the Gate of All Nations at the ancient Persian city of Persepolis near Shiraz in southern Iran, September 26, 2014 (AFP / BEHROUZ MEHRI)
January 5, 2020, 8:56 pm
Trump’s threats draw Iran’s cultural sites into tensions
Earliest traces of human presence in country reach back 100,000 years; its monuments preserve the legacy of a civilization that has kept identity through successive conquests
By Aya Batrawy
An emblem of a menorah carved in the stone, inside a structure at Beit She'arim National Park, an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
December 15, 2019, 9:10 am
UNESCO World Heritage Site at Beit She’arim found vandalized with graffiti
National park, which includes a synagogue and a necropolis and was a major center of Jewish life in the 2nd century, daubed with slogans associated with Hasidic Jews
By ToI Staff
The recently renovated Beit Leibling in Tel Aviv, which offered an opportunity to reexamine imports of German goods into Israel in the 1930s. (Courtesy, Yael Shemi)
December 2, 2019, 10:23 am
The Nazi secret lurking inside some of Tel Aviv’s most beautiful buildings
Discoveries made in Leibling House, a recently renovated cultural center, reveal the German foundations of much of Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus-inflected 1930s construction
By Karen Chernick
Smoke and flames rise from burning Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa, southern Japan, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. A fire broke out at the historic Shuri Castle on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying it. (Jun Hirata/Kyodo News via AP)
October 31, 2019, 4:24 am
Large blaze destroys structures at historic Japanese castle
Shuri Castle on southern island of Okinawa remains a UNESCO World Heritage site even though it was destroyed in World War II and then reconstructed
By AP
Photographer Barak Brinker's view of Tel Aviv's Bauhaus beauty from Bialik Square (Courtesy Barak Brinker)
August 27, 2019, 5:02 pm
Tel Aviv celebrates 100 years of the White City
German-trained architects brought Bauhaus design to the city a century ago; centennial to be marked with rooftop viewings, workshops, street parties and tours
By Jessica Steinberg
A picture taken on May 9, 2019 shows the Reisfeld House, a building built in 1935 by architect Pinchas Bijonsky. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)
July 15, 2019, 6:30 pm
As Bauhaus marks 100 years, Tel Aviv’s iconic ‘White City’ stands tall
Bustling beach city has emerged as a leading repository of the 20th century German minimalist architectural movement that spread when the Nazis exiled its disciples
By Alexandra Vardi
People stand near the Lion of Babylon at the archaeological site of Babylon, Iraq, Friday, July 5, 2019.(AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
July 6, 2019, 4:27 am
Iraq celebrates naming Babylon a UNESCO World Heritage site
It was from the 4,300-year-old city that Nebuchadnezzar sent his vast army to Jerusalem to put down an uprising and bring the Jews back as slaves
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Tel Aviv Bauhaus Museum on the city's Bialik Street (Wikimedia/Talmoryair/CC 3.0)
January 19, 2019, 5:12 pm
As Bauhaus turns 100, iconic creations such as Tel Aviv’s ‘White City’ live on
In sending its disciples into exile, the Nazis ironically ensured the worldwide spread of 20th century’s most influential design school
By Deborah Cole
File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
January 1, 2019, 1:01 am
69 years after joining, Israel formally leaves UNESCO; so, too, does the US
UN cultural agency’s efforts to convince Washington and Jerusalem fail; ‘we aren’t going to be a member of an organization that deliberately acts against us,’ Israeli envoy says
By Raphael Ahren
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