The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons, are central to the Hebrew Bible narrative. Scholars question the ...

The twelve tribes of Israel, therefore, collectively carry the name of their father. Jacob had twelve sons with his four wives. With Leah, he had Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon.

The tribes will go up to Jerusalem on Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot. There they will all be friends with each other and will ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Like Abu Hamid's sons, many Palestinians released by Israel were not sent home but deported. The 74-year-old resident of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has had five of her 10 children ...

The three released Saturday were among dozens of inmates freed in exchange for Israeli hostages held by Gaza militants, under the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas that has halted the war in ...