Arab vandals caused extensive damage to the Ancient Samaria heritage site in Tel Sebastia over the weekend, setting fire to parts of it and scrawling graffiti in Arabic on the ancient building stones.

Sebastia in the northern West Bank has, for the last half-century, aroused passions among the settler community and in Israel more broadly, owing to the historic campaign of the Gush Emunim movement ...

Israelis will be able to visit numerous sites and attractions in Samaria throughout the Passover holiday, IDF Binyamin Brigade officer Elitzur Trebelsi told Arutz Sheva in an interview. Trebelsi said ...

(JNS) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the Israeli government will safeguard and rehabilitate archaeological sites in the biblical heartland that have been vandalized by Palestinians.

The Civil Administration opened today (Thursday) a procedure for the temporary expropriation of some 1,800,000 square meters around the archaeological site of Sebastia in Samaria, in a move intended ...

The entire area of the ancient city of Samaria north of Nablus has been expropriated and separated from the nearby Palestinian village in the name of promoting only the Jewish period of its history.