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Dr. Baruch Sterman holds the strings of a blue satin worm from which the tzitzit frills are made on the beach in Tel Aviv, March 23, 2014. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90.

Out of the blue,’ regal biblical color ‘tekhelet’ returns to modern Israel

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A new exhibit exploring the mysterious color tekhelet, a vibrant blue dye mentioned 49 times in the Torah and later chosen as the central color of Israel’s national flag, opened this week at the Bible Lands Museum in...