According to the researchers, Tel Hazor provides rare insight into how ordinary people lived in a region often defined in historical sources by military campaigns and political rivalry.

The victim was evacuated to Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital with a minor head wound.

Aggression and terrorism against Jewish shepherds in Judea and Samaria have been on the rise.

Several men stole the victim's phone and beat him until security forces interrupted them.

The call of the Holy Land was too strong to resist for this New York-born shepherd, who left it all behind to tread the pathways of his biblical ancestors.