In the first century B.C.E., Herod the Great, who ruled Judea as client king on behalf of Rome, built a fortified palace atop the mountain of Masada overlooking the Dead Sea. Seventy years after Herod's death, the First Jewish Revolt against Rome broke out and Jewish rebels occupied Masada.
Reporters recall their most memorable articles from a year shaped by the war in Ukraine and the Netanyahu-led religious right's replacement of the short-lived 'change government'