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Bronze Age Syrian children taught each other to make miniature figurines, TAU study says

The pottery from Tel Hama was excavated in the 1930s, and since then has been kept in the National Museum in Denmark.

Thessaloniki – a place that can be a home away from home for Israeli tourists

Thessaloniki offers visitors 2,300-plus years of history, tremendous shopping, and a Jewish story like no other in Europe. 

By MARK GORDON , DAVID ZEV HARRIS
27/10/2024
  An illustrative image of lights around the world.

We are the best generation of Jews ever and we chose to forgive God out of love

The people of Israel have clearly demonstrated this year that we are the greatest generation of Jews EVER. This year, we forgive God because we too love Him too much to end this story. 

By AHARON E. WEXLER
26/10/2024

Inscribing Oct. 7: National Library of Israel aims to preserve realities of war

The National Library’s Bearing Witness project aims to preserve the ephemeral realities of war

By JENNA ROMANO
25/10/2024
Displaced Palestinians from Rafah inspect their tents in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 3

A new Marshall Plan: Reconstructing Gaza like the Allies helped rebuild Europe

The original Marshall Plan ushered in decades of peace and prosperity. Under the right circumstances, another Marshall-style plan could do the same for Gaza.

By NEVILLE BERMAN
24/10/2024

Archaeologists unearth ruins of 4th-century church, oldest in Armenia

The church, an octagonal structure with cross-shaped extensions, is the first building of such form to be unearthed in Armenia.

Sergei Palace Hotel brings an old-school touch to the Old City

A stay at the historic Sergei Palace Hotel in central Jerusalem felt like a hassle-free vacation abroad.

Global Jewry pays tribute to professor and Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer

The 98-year-old will be remembered for his expansive contributions to academia and the state of Israel.

 Alex Winston.

Alex Winston: Yorkshire's favorite son now at the heart of Israeli journalism

Behind the Bylines: A newspaper is nothing without its stories, and Yorkshire-born Alex Winston is the man who makes the stories happen, and is a pillar in the world of Israeli journalism.

18/10/2024

Archaeologists uncover evidence of continuous 6,000-year settlement in England

The oldest finds uncovered in the archeological excavation of a quarry date back to the Neolithic Age.

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