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In late 2006, 218 Bnei Menashe immigrants arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on El Al flights from Bombay, the largest group of Bnei Menashe ever to come to Israel at once. The newcomers moved into absorption centers in the northern Israeli towns of Karmiel and Upper Nazareth. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews donated US $1.5 million for their flights.
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
—Abba Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister of Israel, 1915
In 2006, Nabil Ahmad Issa Al-Jaaoura, 38, was charged with the murder of Briton Christopher Stokes, 30, at a Roman amphitheater in Amman, Jordan. Five visitors from the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand were wounded in the shooting. Eyewitnesses said Al-Jaaoura shouted, “Allahu akhbar!” (Allah is great!) as he was overpowered. He obviously had no concern which part of the West his victims represented; all the West was his enemy.
Continue Reading »Naaman the leper was told by Elisha to dip seven times in the Jordan River and be healed. Today Gidon Bromberg, the Israel director of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), says the Jordan River is a health hazard because of sewage dumped into the Jordan. “Almost no fresh water is flowing down the Jordan River anymore. It’s true there are springs along the way which replenish [it] a little bit, but unfortunately it has become the dumping yard of countries,” said Mira Edelstein, an expert on the Jordan Valley and a spokeswoman for FoEME.
Continue Reading »The European Union awarded US $2.2 million—their largest grant ever given—to Israeli Christian Arab Dr. Hossam Haick of Haifa. Haick aims to develop a tiny nanometric sensor that can diagnose different cancers from the breath, even before a tumor forms.
Continue Reading »A panel of American journalists, writers, and scientists has chosen the Old City of Jerusalem as one of the seven wonders of modern times. The panel chose the city for its central place in religious history and struggle for tolerance. Among the sites said to have elevated Jerusalem to this status are the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Dome of the Rock, along with the walls and gates of the city.
Continue Reading »“When I hear the comments of the President of Iran, I do not think such comments would be tolerated in respect of any other country in the world, and they should not be tolerated in respect of Israel.”
—Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, May 15, 2006
{image_1}It always amazes me what beauty man can create out of almost anything, but when you think of painting, you think of a brush, oils, and watercolors. However, in India, they “paint” with colored rice powder or sand, drawing a new “rug” outside the entrance of their home every morning as a “welcome mat” for their gods. But much of the ancient world used a different medium for “painting”—stone. I have seen many “stone paintings,” or mosaics, here in Israel. Each time, I was amazed at the workmanship and thought what a painstaking job it must have been.
Continue Reading »During the recent construction of the Holyland Park Project near Jerusalem’s Malcha shopping mall, archaeologists identified several graves from the Intermediate Bronze Age (2200–2000 BC). Each of the 40 “shaft graves,” typical of the period, extended about 2 meters (6.5 feet) down and opened into individual burial chambers. Pottery found inside the graves indicates that they were reused by later inhabitants of the area during the Middle Bronze IIB period (1750–1550 BC). Since the graves were determined not to be Jewish in origin, they will be carefully documented, the finds removed for further study, and the bodies reinterred before construction resumes.
Continue Reading »I enjoy seeing the look on people’s faces when I tell them that the first time I ever went snow skiing was in Israel, and only one day after Hizbullah fired a couple of rockets at the mountain.
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