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		<title>Burning of Trappist Monastery door at Latrun &#8211; a wakeup call for all of us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yadin Roman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Tag Mechir&#8221; &#8211; which means price-tag. This clandestine group, suspected of living in the fringe Jewish settlements on the West Bank, have been involved in dozens of incidents of burning mosques, destroying olive trees of Palestinians, attacking Arabs on the West Bank and even attacking Israeli army officers in army camps in the West Bank. To this date, only a handful of indictments have been made, and nobody has yet been brought to trail and sentenced. Every time a Price Tag incident happens the authorities, from the Prime Minister to the least of ministers in the government comes out with a statement denouncing these attacks, adding that all will be done to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice. The leaders of the settlers on the West Bank join in with the chorus of denouncements, and add that &#8220;It is the task of the security and police forces to bring these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Souri and Nabali to Barnea and Askal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi J. Gleit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 a recent contest in Greece, first place for varietal oil made from Koroneiki olives was awarded to olives grown on the Golan Heights by Eretz Gshur. Meanwhile, farmers all over the globe are growing Barnea and other olive varieties that were developed in Israel. Some 90 percent of the olive oil produced in Israel is graded extra virgin – meaning it is not processed, contains no additives, and has less then 0.8 % acidity. In comparison, less than half of that produced in Spain, which is the source of almost half of the world’s olive oil, is extra virgin. Prof. Shimon Lavee, a professor emeritus of horticulture at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Volcani Center who is respected for his groundbreaking research on olive trees, provides a logical explanation for this statistic. Traditionally, in the Land of Israel, olive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Adventures in Ramla</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi J. Gleit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 seen today in the most unpredictable places. Founded in 716 CE to serve as the new capital of the Ummayid dynasty, Ramla was planned to be a majestic city – and by all accounts was for its first few centuries. It became a center of commerce and trade, of industry and finance, and even of religion. Scholars and Sufi mystics from the entire Islamic world came to study in Ramla and write important commentaries on the Koran, according to Dr. Shimon Gatt, who has conducted extensive research on the city. Moslems associated it with the “high ground” mentioned in the Koran (Sura 23, vs. 50) and the burial place of the prophet Mohammed’s friends and family, Gatt writes. Though Ramla was established to be a Moslem city, Christians soon identified it with Rama, home of Samuel the prophet, and Arimathea, home of Joseph who removed Jesus from the cross. The Jews quickly adopted the Christian tradition of identifying it as Rama, even naming a local synagogue after Samuel the prophet. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Land of Promise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The movie Land of Promise, filmed in 1933, was the first movie produced by influential filmmaker Margot Klausner, and her second husband Yeoshua Brandstatter. Klausner studied Theater and Art History in Berlin before moving to Palestine in 1926. Together with her husband, she was instrumental in bringing the Habimah Theater from Moscow to Palestine on its first tour in 1927, and from 1932 until 1936 served as part of the management of the theater after it settled in Palestine. In 1933, the couple established Urim, a film production company. Its first movie, Land of Promise, was one of the most important documentaries of the Zionist period. It was made as a propaganda documentary for &#8220;Keren Hayesod&#8221; – the settling arm of the Zionist movement – to encourage Jews to settle in Palestine. The 80-minute movie received critical acclaim and won an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1935. When it was first screened in New York, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Beloved has Gone Down to His Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yadin Roman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 spring once watered can be seen. The fine valley at the foot of the village of Ein Kerem and the prolific spring within the village are what attracted humans to settle at the site from the beginning. By the time of the First Temple, agricultural facilities already had been developed around the spring to grow vegetables to sell in the markets of Jerusalem. During the days of the Second Temple and the Byzantine Period, the land under cultivation expanded and the spring’s flow was increased by quarrying a tunnel that ran along the layer of clay that caught rainwater in the mountainous basin around the village. The waterworks built around the Ein Kerem spring are among the most sophisticated of the spring aqueduct systems in the Judean Mountains. The water flows to the spring’s outlet via a collection aqueduct that is over 30 meters long. Its upper edge splits into two aqueducts that were quarried into the mountain to the east of the spring. A nine-meter-deep shaft, which may have been [...]]]></description>
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