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Twenty years ago Dr. Halvor Ronning and his wife Mirja co-founded the “Home for Bible Translators and Scholars in Jerusalem” (HBT). It was birthed in 1994 when they were both teaching at the Institute of Holy Land Studies (Jerusalem). Mirja reached out to two struggling Ugandans, recognizing the importance for them to have a “home”
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A recent article in a well-known internet news magazine challenged the idea that anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, giving a clear glimpse into growing attempts to discredit the Jewish people. Quoting statistics from a variety of sources, the article erroneously claimed that anti-Semitic incidents are actually decreasing globally. In fact, the article asserted, the
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Photo by ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock Each year visitors to Israel are a significant part of the landscape. The majority arrive as part of a packaged tour, spending much of their time traveling by bus from site to site. For the first-time visitor, this is the best introduction to Israel’s biblical and historical locations. However, once you’ve floated
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The new Egypt under former General and now President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is much like the famous Sphinx monument. From one angle, the Sphinx appears to be a man but from a different perspective, it looks like a lion. Likewise, the current regime in Egypt has many sides and faces—and they may appear to be
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Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute of Science may take memory storage from the edge of impossible to the next level. The latest research from Israel closes in on the possibility of making a portable computer as small as a flash drive, as powerful as a mainframe, at a very reasonable cost,
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Sophisticated cities in North America and Europe are banning plastic bottles to cut down on waste. But what happens when water bottles are gone from the supermarket shelves and your reusable bottle runs dry while you are out and about? A young Israeli company has a plan to offer water refilling stations in cities everywhere.
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A physicist from Israel, Dr. Leon Eisen, has developed the world’s first “watch,” the Oxitone, which can give advanced notice of an impending heart attack. So promising is this technology that Oxitone was picked from 400 applicants to join 12 other companies this year as part of GE Healthcare’s three-year Start-Up Health Academy Entrepreneurship Program.
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Around 536 BC, a Persian government advisor with the Hebrew name, Daniel, penned a number of predictions including a somewhat confusing description of Middle East dynamics at “the end of time.” The confusion was deliberate, he said. It would not be understood until an unmistakable shift happened on a global scale, a time when “travel
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For decades, the propaganda machine of the Arab world has declared that Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestine” is at the heart of all conflict in the Middle East. Unfortunately world leaders have been all too willing to dance to that tune, while ignoring the reality on the ground. But today, battles are raging, borders changing
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A 1,900 year old ritual bath (miqwe) was recently exposed at Ha-Ela Junction in excavations undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). An enormous 1,700-year-old water cistern was revealed nearby in which graffiti was discovered that had been engraved on the reservoir’s ceiling during the Second World War. According to Yoav Tsur, excavation director, “We
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An archaeological site, south of Beit Shemesh, brought to light remarkable finds during the preliminary survey of blocked cisterns, a cave opening and the tops of several walls which were visible on the surface. These clues resulted in an extensive archaeological excavation that subsequently revealed a prosperous community which was previously unknown. The compound is
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Photo by Yoli Shwartz courtesy of IAA A rare find of tremendous historical significance was discovered in Jerusalem: a fragment of a stone engraved with an official Latin inscription dedicated to the Roman emperor Hadrian. Researchers believe this is among the most important Latin inscriptions ever discovered in Jerusalem. During the past year the Israel
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