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Israel embraces destiny over survival as it celebrates 77 years of independence - opinion

As Israel turns 77, it must move beyond survival to ancient civilizational revival.

|ByARIEL HARKHAM
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG attends an event with outstanding soldiers ahead of Independence Day, earlier this week at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.
A VIEW of the settlement of Eli, in Samaria. Yesha Council deputy head Yigal Dilmoni said yesterday that turning Judea and Samaria into ‘Gush Dan east’ could significantly help the country’s housing problems.

What will a divided Israel and Judea look like?

More than 2,951 years have passed since that severe rift, and it seems that the Jewish people still struggle to maintain a united society.

|ByOMER KAPUSHCHEVSKY/MAARIV
The cover of Lori Banov Kaufmann’s book

How did a Jewish woman and a Roman man fall in love? - book review

Rebel Daughter as a cross-over young adult/adult fictionalized account of the love story between Esther, a young Jewish woman, and Tiberius Claudius, a Roman freeman.

|ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
new testament

Mistranslation and the Holocaust

There is little question that Christendom’s anti-Semitic history sowed the seeds for the unthinkable and John’s Gospel played an outsized role.

|ByPAUL LIBEN