From Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Israeli Knesset, President Donald Trump has been hailed for striking a number of peace deals in the region.

Israelis have likened Donald Trump to the ancient Persian ruler Cyrus the Great, celebrating him as a modern-day liberator who, like Cyrus who ended the Jewish exile in Babylon, has restored Israel's ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...

To be compared to Cyrus, who helped Jews rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, is no small thing. As their last living hostages returned home from Gaza after two years of war, Israelis gave visiting ...

Two hundred years before Cyrus the Great brought down the Babylonian Empire, the prophet Isaiah had this prophesy: “Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to ...

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“Mr. President, you stand before the people of Israel not as another American president, but as a giant of Jewish history — one for whom we must look back, two-and-a-half millennia into the mists of ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. With both parties agreeing to terms, the first stages of a peace plan in Gaza are in motion. US President Donald Trump is credited ...