Nir Hasson (Haaretz)
By Nir Hasson (Haaretz)
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Breaking News Ancient Biblical Civilizations Killed by Climate Change, Study Says
Between 1250 and 1100 B.C.E., all the great civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean – pharaonic Egypt, Mycenaean Greece and Crete, Ugarit in Syria and the large Canaanite city-states – were destroyed, ushering in new peoples and kingdoms including the first Kingdom of Israel. Now scientists are suggesting a climatic explanation for this great upheaval: A…
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Breaking News King Solomon’s MInes Are From Era — But Not His
It took 10 date pits and one olive pit to come to the conclusion that the heyday of the copper mines at Timna, near Eilat, was indeed during the reign of King Solomon, in the 10th century B.C.E. The samples, which were dug up by a Tel Aviv University team headed by archaeologist Erez Ben…
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Breaking News Palestinian Family Lives in Cave After Home Bulldozed
Jerusalem municipal bulldozers demolished the home of the Zir family of Silwan last week before the courts ruled on the issue. Left homeless, the family has moved into a cave. Khaled Zir, a Silwan resident and father of five children, the smallest of them four months old, lived for the past seven years in a…
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Breaking News Jerusalem Candidate Vows To Quiet Mosques
Right-wing activist Aryeh King is playing the race card in his campaign for Jerusalem city council, promising to clean the capital’s parks of Arabs and lower the volume on mosques. The slogans on his campaign posters read along the lines of “Are you afraid in the park?” and “Muezzin cackling?” King, whose primary endeavor in…
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Breaking News Is Jehoash Tablet a Fake?
The Jehoash Tablet is a stone bearing an inscription in ancient Hebrew describing the renovation of the First Temple by the Jehoash, King of Judea. If it is authentic, it is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. But for many years, in one of the most complex cases ever to…
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Breaking News Ultra-Orthodox Break Windows After Woman Refuses To Go to Back of Bus
Ultra-Orthodox protesters attacked and damaged three buses in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Shemesh on Wednesday, after a female traveling on one of the buses refused a Haredi passenger’s order to move to the back and sit separately from the men. Following her refusal, demonstrators blocked the path of the bus and smashed its windshield,…
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Breaking News King David-Era Ceramic Jar Found in Jerusalem
Israeli archaeologists last week discovered a fragment of a ceramic jar they say dates back to the time of Kings David and Solomon and bears the earliest sample of written text ever found in Jerusalem. The inscription is engraved on a large pithos, a neckless ceramic jar found during excavations at the Ophel site, near…
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Breaking News Dead Sea Scrolls Get New Translation Courtesy of High-Resolution Imaging
With the help of new technology, three experts in ancient Hebrew have been able to discern a different reading of the passage from a fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Elisha Qimron had been working on the final stages of the second volume of the new edition of the Hebrew writings of…
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