Under the cover of night, three men drove a military jeep along a rough track. Only days before, Israeli forces had suffered great losses in an attack on the fortress of Latrun, which was held by the Arab Legion and effectively blocked the road to Jerusalem. Latrun commanded the Jerusalem ro…
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An ancient gold coin bearing the image of the Roman Emperor, Nero, has been discovered in archaeological excavations just outside the Old City of Jerusalem. The coin was found in the excavations of the Mount Zion Project, co-directed by Shimon Gibson, Visiting Professor of Archaeology at the U…
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Jan Karski was an eyewitness of the Holocaust1 who attempted to draw the attention of the United States and Britain to the slaughter of Polish Jews early in World War Two. Born Jan Kozielewski in 1914, Karski came from a working-class Catholic family from Lodz, Poland. He commenced a career…
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