Ruth Schuster (Haaretz)
By Ruth Schuster (Haaretz)
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Culture 7-Year-Old Boy Stumbles Onto 3,400-Year-Old Canaanite Relic
A seven-year-old boy on a trip with friends happened to move a rock while ambling around the Canaanite archaeological site of Tel Rehov in the Jordan Valley and found a beautifully preserved 3,400-year-old female figurine. Cleaning off the mud coating the clay sculpture, which is about the size of two adult fingers, Ori Greenhut found…
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Breaking News Rare Sand Cat Stuns Israeli Zookeepers by Giving Birth — to Triplets
It’s just as well for the sand cat species that personal taste isn’t a prerequisite for procreation, it seems. Rotem, the only surviving sand cat at the Ramat Gan Safari Park, lost her mate a year ago and seemed rather repulsed by Kalahari, his replacement, a sand cat imported from Sweden last September. Maybe he…
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News That Time Jellyfish Swarmed an Israeli Power Plant
A swarm of giant jellyfish arrived at the Rutenberg power plant in Ashkelon Wednesday, which however was prepared with filters to keep the slimy sea creatures out of its cooling systems. The plant constantly cleared the filters from the animals, to keep the cooling systems and plant running. “Our coal-fired power stations are located by…
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The Schmooze Injured Israeli Bird Gets Feather Transplant From a German (Bird)
An injured Israeli swift has been saved from certain death by a feather transplant, thanks to an ornithophiliac couple in south Tel Aviv – and a unique collaboration between an Israeli zoo and a German clinic. Swifts are peculiarly beloved birds. They are wild and rather too small to bother eating, though certain Asian cuisines…
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