Documents recently released by the British National Archives have revealed the extent of debate among British diplomats over the fate of “Jewish refugees fleeing the ashes of post-war Germany” (‘Documents reveal historic debate over Jewish refugees,’ Israel National News, 14 May 2008 http://…
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The inscription from the tunnel king Hezekiah dug to secure the water supply of Jerusalem during the siege of the Assyrians is to be loaned to Israel by the Turkish government (“Hezekiah Inscription to return to Israel”, Jay Bushinsky, Washington Times, 5 September 2007, http://washingtontimes.c…
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In Deuteronomy the land of Israel is described as “a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills” (8:7), which “drinketh water of the rain of heaven” (11:11). Today, however, Israel’s natural water sources are no longer able to meet the increasing …
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While we see modern Israel as a token of the coming Kingdom of God and a sign of Christ’s return, the Jewish state is really no different from any other contemporary country. Israel is a modern, progressive nation, interested in the development of its resources and the well-being and p…
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Jews from India, who believe that they are one of the ten so-called lost tribes of Israel, have settled at Kiryat Arba near Hebron, reports the BBC News’ Jerusalem Diary[1]. The Hebron region is, of course, in the territory occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Day War and therefore a controversia…
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Israel’s first large-scale sea wave power plant has been built on the Jaffa port’s breakwater near Tel Aviv (Honey Garcia, “Wave power unit installed in Israel’s Jaffa port”, EcoSeed (29 July 2010)[1]). Constructed by Tel Aviv-based SDE Energy Limited, the wave power plant is an initial st…
According to Dr Avi Shapira, the chairman of Israel’s inter-ministry steering committee for earthquake preparedness, a strong earthquake can be expected in Israel within the next fifty years, reports Amiram Cohen (“Before the next big shake-up”, Haaretz.com, 17 December, 2010[1]). “Israel is…
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Many anecdotes circulate in Russia to illustrate President Vladimir Putin’s positive attitude toward individual Jews and toward the Jewish community generally. There is the story about the retired teacher who Putin called on during an official visit to Israel in 2005. She had not seen him since sh…
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The National Library of Israel, which owns Sir Isaac Newton’s manuscripts on theological topics, has put digital copies of all of Newton’s theological writing on the Internet[1]. The manuscripts have been digitally copied and posted on the Internet[2] in co-operation with Cambridge University’…
National Library of Israel Digitizes Newton’s Biblical Studies Read More »
Here is a political question, which it will puzzle politicians to answer. Some, on reading it, will at once claim the honor for America, others for Britain, and others look to the Russian colossus as the one which shall tower high above all. If we trust to the imaginings of the fleshly mind, unenlig…
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