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