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{image_1}Thousands of years ago, sailors would spread seawater in flat beds aboard ship to let the sun evaporate it to separate out the salt. The same principle is behind a modern Israeli technology that relies on sun power to distill clean water for drinking and agriculture.
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{image_1}Recently the Dispatch from Jerusalem was invited to a media-only presentation which highlighted several Israeli companies in the field of bio-tech, the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make useful products, and medical devices. Steve Rhodes from The Trendlines Group, a company which invests in and develops new businesses, gave a short introduction, before representatives of the individual companies made their presentations.
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{image_1}It all started with groups of protesters, angry about the lack of freedom in Syria. Innocents without guns being beaten back by the Syrian army. Two years later, with more than 70,000 dead and 1 million refugees, the Syrian uprising has become a brutal civil war. But just as the conflict has spread from protests to gun battles, the fight has also gone from Syrian villages to areas outside the country’s borders. Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq are already feeling the heat of a war that is much too close to home. The West has long feared this internal war could turn into a regional one. In many ways, it already has.
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{image_1}In an archaeological excavation in Jerusalem, a rare ritual bath (mikveh) was exposed that dates to the late Second Temple period [530 BC–AD 70]. According to Benyamin Storchan, director of the excavation, “Numerous ritual baths have been excavated in Jerusalem in recent years, but the water supply system that we exposed in this excavation is unique and unusual. The ritual bath consists of an underground chamber entered by way of steps. The mikveh received the rainwater from three collecting basins (otzar) that were hewn on the roof of the bath, and the pure water was conveyed inside the chamber through channels.
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{image_1}Archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority provide a glimpse at hundreds of years of magnificent history that lie beneath the busy streets. Recently impressive remains of an industrial installation from the Byzantine period, which was used to extract liquid, were exposed on Hai Gaon Street [in Jaffa].
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{image_1}Due to the unprecedented public interest, the exhibition of “Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey” will remain open until 4th January 2014, a three month extension of the original schedule.
Continue Reading »{image_1}Remains of a Byzantine settlement with an impressive winepress were recently excavated on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority [IAA] near Hamei Yo’av. According to Dr. Rina Avner, the excavation director, “The winepress exceeded 100 sq m [1076 sq ft] in area. It consists of a large treading floor, surrounded by six compartments on the north and east. These compartments were used for fermenting grapes upon their arrival from the vineyards to produce high-quality wine. The treading floor slopes to the west, where a settling vat and two collecting pits are situated in a row. A lead pipe connects the treading floor to the settling vat, which in turn is connected by two lead pipes to the two collecting pits.
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{image_1}According to a report by the Israel Defense Forces’ [IDF's] magazine Bamahane (“on base”), 26 attempts to kidnap soldiers were made in 2012—more than double the number recorded in 2011, which totaled 11. All 26 attempts—which took place in Israel and the West Bank [Judea and Samaria]—were thwarted.
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{image_1}Arab news outlets reported that the Egyptian navy seized a vessel carrying a large arms shipment near the Sinai Peninsula’s southern coast in the Red Sea. The Anatolia Turkish News Agency reported the ship is an Iranian fishing vessel named “Sawit 1,” adding that it was captured 12 miles [19.3 km] offshore.
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{image_1}The Arab League, meeting in Qatar, has resolved to set up a [US] $1 billion fund to promote the Arab character of east Jerusalem. The fund, which will be managed by Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Development Bank, will “finance projects and programs that would maintain the Arab and Islamic character of the city and reinforce the steadfastness of its people.”
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{image_1}If you are like me, the taste of a juicy, ripe mango conjures up visions of a tropical island paradise with glorious beaches and beautiful sunsets. The fruit, however, grows in a number of subtropical areas far from the sea, and Israel is actually the northernmost spot on earth to successfully cultivate it. Hebrew University has developed a variety that is not only popular with Israelis, but is a favorite in European countries as well.
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{image_1}An Israel Defense Forces [IDF] medical team was called to assist in the case of a 13-year-old Palestinian dialysis patient whose condition had escalated to the point where his life was in danger. “We received a call around nine in the morning from the Chief Medical Officer of the Judea and Samaria Division informing us that there was a boy hospitalized in the Jenin hospital in need of further intensive care,” said Lt. Abed Rabah, Medical Officer of the Menashe Regional Brigade in the Judea and Samaria Division.
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