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 oil is internationally acclaimed. At...
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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 diYeshua – translated as “James,...
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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 into the Arava Valley via...
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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. The idea of tourism in...
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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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