After the flood …
This week’s Torah portion tells the story of the great flood. The world had become corrupt, immoral and incorrigible. Even God’s infinite patience could not handle that generation. Noah had been building his ark...
How an Oct. 7 amputee refuses to stop dancing this Simchat Torah
As the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is being put into effect, the first step is returning the remaining hostages seized by the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. As...
Three-volume Lisbon Mahzor reunited at National Library of Israel
A rare 15th-century Portuguese manuscript, once divided into three parts, has come home to Jerusalem, so to speak, the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem says.
The Lisbon Mahzor—a decorated small-format manuscript on parchment—was most...
Israel unveils National Archaeological Database with some 4 million records
The Israel Antiquities Authority on Tuesday launched a digital platform centralizing all archaeological information collected and researched in Israel. The database currently contains 3,910,005 records, along with 964,393 objects, 1,223,552 images and 15,164 three-dimensional...
Cannon that sunk ‘Altalena’ in 1948 to be moved to Menachem Begin Heritage Center
Israel's Defense Ministry has agreed to transfer the cannon that shelled the Altalena, the Irgun cargo ship that the newly created Israel Defense Forces shelled off the Tel Aviv beach in 1948, to the Menachem...
March of the Living marks 81 years since Lodz Ghetto liquidation
The March of the Living held a solemn March of Remembrance in Łódź, Poland, on Aug. 29 to mark 81 years since the liquidation of its ghetto, one of the largest established by Germany...
A Galilean community where Ben-Gurion worked is restoring a storied past
Perched above the Sea of Galilee on the hilly road from Tiberias in northeastern Israel to the coastal city of Haifa directly opposite to the west is Ilaniya, one of the first modern Jewish...
Oldest dam uncovered in Jerusalem dated to biblical kings
The largest dam in ancient Israel, uncovered just outside the walled Old City of Jerusalem, has been dated back to the time of the biblical kings, some 2,800 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority...
Silver used as currency in Israel 3,600 years ago
ilver was used as a means of payment in the Land of Israel starting 3,600 years ago, a millennium before the invention of coins, according to an Israeli study released on Thursday.
A University of...
2,150-year-old dolphin artifact seized in Jerusalem
A rare lead weight in excellent condition, bearing an ancient Greek inscription from the Hellenistic period, was seized this week in Jerusalem during a special operation by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
The weight, dated...