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  • Last July, the annual Terra Olivo Mediterranean International Olive Oil Competition took place in Israel for the first time, attracting olive oil producers from around the globe, to Jerusalem. Israel produces less than 10,000 of the three million tons of olive oil produced worldwide each year, yet Israel’s olive...

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  • In a Washington press conference co-hosted by the Discovery Channel and the Biblical Archaeology Society in October 21, 2002 the existence of the James Ossuary was announced. The ossuary, a 2000-year old chalk box for the internment of human bones, had an Aramaic inscription on it: Ya’akov bar-Yosef  akhui...

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  • The first time I saw  Masada was in the late 1950s, when I drove with my parents in my mother’s UN-owned jeep to Ein Gedi. The only way down to the Dead Sea area at the time, was via the old road to Eilat, a dirt road that descended...

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  • Yehuda Avni came to the Galilee in the 1950s, from his native Chicago. His dream was to build a horse-ranch above the Sea of Galilee, where visitors could ride in the area of the Ministry of Jesus and enjoy the historic scenery of the lake and the surrounding mountains....

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  • Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and  scriptural scholar James Tabor have done it again: another sensational discovery in Jerusalem that will lead the two to the “real” tomb of Jesus. Headlines screamed, press conferences were packed.

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Burning of Trappist Monastery door at Latrun – a wakeup call for all of us

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September 5, 2012

Yesterday morning the monks at the Trappist Monastery of Latrun woke up to find their front door burnt and Hebrew slogans in red paint sprayed over the entrance to the building.  The mode of operation and the text of the slogans is the modus-operandi of a group called “Tag Mechir” – which means price-tag.
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The Eye of Horus

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May 7, 2012

Mount Karkom in the Negev has been in the news lately. The discovery that this mountain, which some claim is Mount Sinai, has a mysterious “eye” that lights up with a halo on certain days of the year made it a media sensation. The eye actually was discovered nine years ago, but this did...
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The Last Blacksmiths

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May 6, 2012

It was a typical Friday morning and Uri Hofi was in the midst of teaching four students, passing on the secrets of a disappearing trade to the next generation of blacksmiths. Explanations on the correct angle to bend the white-hot iron are interspersed with his thoughts on kinetic energy and spatial geometry. Hofi dons...
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The House on Borochov Street

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April 29, 2012

In 1922, 21 modest homes were built in Givatayim, creating the first workers’ neighborhood in the Land of Israel: the Borochov neighborhood. Only two of the original buildings still are standing today and one of them, that of pharmacist Isaac Isidor Mamlock, is about to disappear.
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Underground Adventures in Ramla

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May 7, 2012

Ramla may be one of Israel’s most surprising destinations. The city’s grand past has been eclipsed by urban blight in recent years, but glimpses of it still can be...
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The Land of Promise

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May 7, 2012

The Land of Promise was a movie created as a propaganda tool of the Zionist movement. It not only received critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival, but was...
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My Beloved has Gone Down to His Garden

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May 7, 2012

Ein Kerem is the only village within the Green Line that still is built around a spring at whose feet the remains of the traditional agricultural terraces that the...
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Danilovich Calls Their Bluff

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March 15, 2012

In an unprecedented decision the mayor of Beersheba, Rubik Danilovich decided that even though the Israel Defense Forces, the Home Front Command, Southern Command and everybody else had declared...
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