Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jewish military officer, who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 in France, has been posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general.[1]
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was charged with selling secret documents to Germany.
French President, Emmanuel Macron, and …
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced that a fragment of an Assyrian cuneiform inscription on a pottery sherd from the First Temple period (eighth to seventh centuries BC) has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.[1]
Measuring about 2.5cm (1 inch) in size, the tiny artefa…
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A bulla (seal impression) with a Hebrew inscription was discovered recently in material from the Temple Mount. A bulla is an inscribed clay, soft metal, or wax token used in official documents. It is believed to date from the seventh to sixth century BC, based on the shape of the letters. The find i…
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[1] Based on: Chiune Sempo Sugihara, https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/sugihara.html
When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, many of the Jews fled to the east of the country, which was occupied by the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-a…
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War with Hamas has created an unprecedented health and medical crisis for Israel. But there is a positive aspect to the situation. There has been an upsurge in rehabilitation innovation that promises to improve healthcare worldwide.
The day after Hamas invaded Israel’s south on 7 October 2023, …
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The search for Noah’s Ark and evidence of a world-wide flood has been the subject of speculation over many years. Much of the debate has lacked credible evidence or rigorous analysis. But now scholars from Istanbul Technical University, Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, and Andrews University in the …
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Always at the cutting edge of new technology, Israel has installed a 100kW-capacity wave energy power plant at Tel Aviv-Yafo. The plant converts ocean wave motion into pressurised fluid, which drives turbines to generate clean electricity for coastal communities.
Floating platforms with hydraulic…
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A social worker in Warsaw, Poland, during the Nazi occupation, Irena Sendler organised a group that smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a result, nearly 2500 children were saved from certain death under the Nazis.
The Warsaw Ghetto was created by the Nazis to concentrate th…
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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 Israel…
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