An extensive stone quarry has been discovered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim1 neighbourhood by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). It is the largest quarry uncovered from the Second Temple period (the return from Babylonian exile to AD70) in the region. Extensive building projects were undertaken…
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1We think we have problems with bushfires here in Australia, but Israel is not only fighting fires resulting from the dry summer; fires have erupted in the Golan Heights as the result of rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel by Hezbollah terrorists. Deserted local towns and villages close to I…
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Israeli researchers have used a precise method to establish a detailed chronology of the First Temple period (1200BC to the Babylonian destruction in 586BC). Working with archaeological evidence at the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, the team reconstructed an accurate history of the city …
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Writing in Thirteen Lectures on … the Apocalypse of the events of the sixth seal, which records the eventual triumph of Christianity over paganism as the sole religion of the Roman Empire, Brother Robert Roberts observes that: “This change was one which affected the entire civilized world. Rome wielded universal empire over the civilized races of men, so that what affected Rome affected all the earth, and a change so radical, effected so violently, could not better be represented than by the symbolism of the sixth seal. It was a change that took considerable time to accomplish. It was not the work of one year. It occupied several years”.[1] In the words of one historian: “paganism was dying a slow death”. [2]
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Two farms near the Gaza border are working with an agricultural robotics company to rebuild their processes following personal loss and injury suffered in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack.[1]
Kibbutz Alumim[2] is in the southwest of Israel, near the Gaza border. The director of agricult…
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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-metre-long section of what is known as the Upper-Level Aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem in the late Second Temple period (about 2000 years ago), the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reports.1
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Situated in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world. Annexed by France in 1897, it gained its independence in 1960. But very few people know that the Nazis had a plan for the resettlement in Madagascar of Jews.
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A half-shekel silver coin dated to AD66/67 has been discovered in the Judean Desert. The rare coin minted in Jerusalem by the Jewish rebels[1] was found in the area of the Ein Gedi nature reserve. It has the words “The Holy Jerusalem” in ancient Hebrew on the coin’s face, and was issued in the first year of the Jewish Revolt against the Romans.
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Sometimes, otherwise insignificant objects discovered in archaeological excavations have a greater value when closely studied. Objects may also be laid aside because the technology to interpret them is lacking. Two inscriptions discovered in Israel illustrate this point.
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This year, 2023, marks the centenary of three events, which directly affected the Jews and changed the course of history. All three events facilitated the return of the Jews to their ancient homeland.
Hitler, the Beer Hall Putsch 8 November 1923[1]
In 1923, on 8 November, Adolph Hitler proclaimed a Nazi revolution at a Munich beer hall, which became known to history as the “Beer Hall Putsch” (revolution). The next day he tried to take over the Bavarian government by marching on the administration with the support of his private army of over 2000 Storm Troopers. The attempt failed. Police opened fire, killing sixteen of his followers, while Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for treason.
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