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{image_1}A tiny personal seal was discovered in a 2,000-year-old drainage channel in the vicinity of Robinson’s Arch, close to the Western Wall. The seal is made of semi-precious stone and is engraved with the name of its owner: “Lematanyahu Ben Ho…” (…למתניהו בן הו). The rest of the inscription is erased. Personal seals in the First Temple Period were for the purpose of signing letters and they were usually set in a signet ring. The seals served to identify their owner, just as they identify officials today.
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{image_1}On November 18, the sun rose like any day, and like so many days dozens of trucks carrying aid and supplies entered the Gaza Strip from Israeli territory. Like so many days before it, on November 18, a total of 26 Gazan patients were accompanied into Israel for medical treatment. Yet, one of the main things that separated November 18 from a number of Sundays before, is that on that day Gaza fired 156 rockets at Israel. This followed a four-day stretch during which over 900 rockets were launched at Israel. Civilians in Israeli towns were under routine threat—some had been killed by the attacks and dozens more were wounded. It was Day 5 of Israel’s “Pillar of Defense” Operation, which was intended to undercut Gaza’s ability and desire to strike Israel’s home front at whim. Yet, despite the war-like circumstances, despite the intentional targeting of Israeli civilians by Gaza’s leaders, Israel was facilitating the entrance of aid into Gaza, and sick Palestinians into Israeli hospitals. That juxtaposition is no anomaly—it’s an intentionality.
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{image_1}During the height of Operation Pillar of Defense, while southern Israel was under nearly constant rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, Liron Bar, a 13-year-old Beersheva resident came up with the idea for a new iPhone app.
Continue Reading » {image_1}During the height of Operation Pillar of Defense, while southern Israel was under nearly constant rocket attack from the Gaza Strip, Liron Bar, a 13-year-old Beersheva resident came up with the idea for a new iPhone app.
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{image_1}A treasure of impressive prehistoric finds was exposed during the course of archaeological excavations conducted at Ein Zippori this past year by the Israel Antiquities Authority [IAA]. According to Dr. Ianir Milevski and Nimrod Getzov, excavation directors, “The excavation revealed remains of an extensive settlement belonging to the “Wadi Rabah” culture, common in Israel from the end of the sixth millennium and beginning of the fifth millennium BC.”
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{image_1}The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed an ancient well that was discovered in the Jezreel Valley. Examination of the well exposed two skeletal remains—one a woman thought to be about 19 years old, and the other, an older man. The well was constructed approximately 8,500 years ago. IAA archaeologists who have been lowered into the eight-meter-deep [26 feet] shaft have also found a variety of flint blades, arrow heads, stone implements, and animal bones.
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{image_1}A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period (AD 300–500) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village located approximately two to three miles [3–5 km] west of Capernaum and Migdal (Magdala) in the Galilee. The excavations are being conducted by Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and David Amit and Shua Kisilevitz of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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{image_1}Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Mahmoud al-Zahar, former members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious, political, and social movement founded in Egypt and committed to the gradual global dominance of Islam.
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{image_1}Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We were re-exposed to our enemies’ true face…They have no intention of compromising with us; they want to destroy the state…”
{image_1}The State of Israel has all sorts of assets, but the sympathy of the European countries is not among the important ones. It is certainly not as important as another asset we tend to overlook: our independence. The world's empathy is important when rockets are fired at Israel from the south, but it is more important to take out those who are doing the firing. The same goes for the diplomatic arena: if attacked, we must return fire.
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{image_1}In an astonishing display of hypocrisy, numerous UN country delegates gave impassioned speeches on November 27 objecting to resolutions criticizing the murderous regimes of Iran, North Korea, and Syria. The delegates said they rejected the very notion of singling out countries, and then they proceeded, mere moments later, to adopt a resolution—which many of them also co-sponsored—singling out democratic Israel.
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{image_1}On November 29, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to upgrade Palestine from an “entity” to the status of a “non-member observer state.” The final vote tally was 138 in favor, 41 abstentions, and 9 opposed. The countries who voted in opposition were Israel, US, Canada, Czech Republic, Panama, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau. Britain and Germany were among the nations that abstained.
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