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 used by Nazi Germany to encourage Jews to immigrate to the Land of Israel.
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The Land of Promise
Mysteries of the Copper Hoard
Fifty years have passed since Pessah Bar-Adon discovered, in a cave in the Judean Desert canyon of Nahal Mishmar, the biggest hoard of ancient artifacts ever found in the Land of Israel: 429 copper objects, wrapped in a reed mat. Five decades and dozens of academic papers after their discovery, the enigma of how...
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The Enigmatic Reliquary of James the Brother of Jesus
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 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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The Masada Enigma
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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