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Daily Archives: October 13, 2021

A photo from Spencer Tunick’s 2011 installation of the Dead Sea. Credit: Courtesy of Spencer Tunick.

Nude photo shoot to bring attention to dying Dead Sea

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Ten years after Spencer Tunick first set his lens on the Dead Sea, the world-renowned photographer will once more capture the quickly disappearing natural wonder against the backdrop of hundreds of nude people. The photo shoot,...
The winepresses at this Byzantine-era facility in Yavneh produced some two million liters of wine annually. Credit: Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Largest Byzantine winepress in the world unearthed in Israel

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When an initiative to expand the Israeli coastal city of Yavne first took off, few could have imagined the endeavor would include a fabulous archeological find: the largest and most impressive Byzantine winepress ever...
Irish author Sally Rooney. Source: Screenshot.

Author Sally Rooney won’t allow Hebrew translation of book, citing support for BDS

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An Irish author announced that she will only sell the Hebrew translation rights of her new novel if she can find a publishing house that adheres to the guidelines of the anti-Israel BDS movement. Sally...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House leadership in Washington on Oct. 12, 2021. Credit: Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.

In first day of US trip, Lapid underscores bipartisanship, urges alternative plan on Iran

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On the first of a three-day visit to Washington, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid made his rounds in Congress on Tuesday, highlighting the Israeli government’s push for bipartisan support for Israel in the United...
A conference in Erbil, Iraq, hosted by the Center for Peace Communications, September 2021. Source: Screenshot.

The story behind Iraq’s first pro-Israel conference

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It was as remarkable as it was unexpected. More than 300 Iraqis, both Sunnis and Shi’ites, gathered at a conference in a hotel ballroom on Sept. 24 in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil...