Ariel David
By Ariel David
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News Snail guts? Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old secret to the prosperity of the biblical kingdom of Israel
An ancient factory producing ‘royal purple’ dye is revealed to have been a joint Israelite-Phoenician venture that cornered the market for one of world’s oldest luxury goods
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Food Earliest evidence of cooking found in 780,000-year-old barbecued fish in northern Israel
Hominins living at Gesher Benot Ya’akov controlled fire and cooked tasty fish, suggesting a key step in our evolution happened much earlier than previously thought
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Israel News Mr. Oren Goes From Washington (to Jerusalem)
From writing history books on the U.S. role in the Middle East to serving as Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren seems to have spent most of his life building bridges between the Jewish state and his country of birth. Oren, No. 4 on the slate of Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu and the only member of…
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Breaking News Sukkot Pilgrims Head to Italy for Perfect Etrog
At dawn, before the summer heat starts baking the countryside, groups of bearded men with black kippas descend upon the citrus groves that dot the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy. The sight of Hasidim wandering the fields and villages in this relatively isolated Italian region could seem incongruous, since practically no Jews have lived…
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