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Podcast: Proof that Nabateans’ trade empire collapsed due to ancient epidemic
By TOI staff
In an in-depth interview with expert archaeologist Tali Erickson-Gini, we hear that he who controls the spice (or garum and wine) controls the ancient world
Tourists visiting Al-Khazneh 'the Treasury' in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, November 11, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 7, 2021, 7:05 am
Podcast: Proof that Nabateans’ trade empire collapsed due to ancient epidemic
In an in-depth interview with expert archaeologist Tali Erickson-Gini, we hear that he who controls the spice (or garum and wine) controls the ancient world
By TOI staff
Magen David Adom workers outside a nursing home in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 15, 2021, 6:12 pm
16 retirement home residents contract COVID-19, most of them vaccinated
All are currently asymptomatic; Health Ministry will investigate if the residents were infected with a variant strain
By TOI staff
Security forces inspect the scene where a man died in a car explosion in Holon, on April 11, 2021. (Flash90)
April 11, 2021, 9:30 pm
Bombed cars, shooting leave two dead, one injured in suspected gangland violence
Car blown up in Netanya, hours later another explodes in Holon killing one; later, man shot dead, another seriously injured in Ashkelon
By Stuart Winer
A fuel tank owned by a Europe Asia Pipeline Company factory just outside of the southern city of Ashkelon, where a fuel leak occurred in late November 2020. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
March 16, 2021, 3:09 pm
Green Police open criminal probe into state-owned pipeline over benzene leak
Environmental Protection Ministry says secretive Europe Asia Pipeline Company allegedly violated several laws, after initial investigation into Ashkelon toxic event
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Screen capture from video of Israeli motorists crouching beside their vehicles on a major highway as sirens blare warning of incoming rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, November 12, 2019. (Twitter)
March 11, 2021, 10:02 pm
Sirens sound in Ashkelon in false alarm after terror groups make threats
IDF says detection system mistakenly indicated incoming rockets, prompting launch of interceptors; incident comes as Islamic Jihad, Hamas blame Israel for deaths of Gaza fishermen
By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman
People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera, Israel, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 22, 2021, 6:39 am
Tarred and shuttered: Anatomy of the oil disaster that closed Israel’s beaches
Experts call the spill Israel’s worst beach contamination in memory, and they fear much marine life has been wiped out. Nobody can say how long recovery will take
By Sue Surkes
A coral beach in the Red Sea, Eilat, May 29, 2009. (Anna Kaplan/Flash90)
January 11, 2021, 2:59 pm
UAE pipeline deal will imperil Eilat’s critical coral reefs, scientists warn
As tankers begin taking oil from Red Sea to Mediterranean, hundreds of experts write that a leak could ravage marine life and destroy world’s only reef spared by climate change
By Sue Surkes
An Israeli Merkava battle tank on the border with the Gaza Strip on March 15, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)
November 22, 2020, 10:32 pm
IDF blames ‘misunderstanding’ for tank firing on Hamas post without approval
Preliminary investigation finds armored crews had been told to target border positions; unauthorized attack was in response to rocket launch from Gaza that hit Ashkelon factory
By Judah Ari Gross
File: An Israeli tank takes a position at the Gaza Strip border, October 27, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
November 22, 2020, 9:31 am
Army probing rogue IDF tank fire on Hamas post after rocket strike
Military initially denied reports its tank shot at Gaza observation post; is also investigating why Iron Dome defense system didn’t intercept Gaza rocket that hit Israeli warehouse
By Judah Ari Gross
Flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the town of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, early on November 22, 2020. (Said Khatib/AFP)
November 22, 2020, 4:34 am
Israeli jets strike Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket fire at Ashkelon
IDF says predawn raids hit terror group’s training facility, rocket manufacturing sites, underground infrastructure; army investigating unauthorized tank fire at Strip
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
Illustrative: An Israeli missile launched from an Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
November 21, 2020, 10:04 pm
Gaza rocket fired at Ashkelon, hitting empty warehouse
Attack comes week after rockets fired at central Israel in what the military believes was a malfunction caused by lightning
By Judah Ari Gross
Screen capture from video of the scene where a boy, 5, died after being hit by a truck in a suspected hit-and-run in Ashkelon, October 26, 2020. (Walla news)
October 26, 2020, 5:15 pm
Truck kills 9-year-old riding his bicycle in suspected hit-and-run
Paramedics declare victim dead at scene in Ashkelon; police later arrest driver, a resident of the southern coastal city
By TOI staff
Illustrative: IIsrael Fire and Rescue Services trucks, January 9 2012. (Uri Lenzi/Flash90)
September 30, 2020, 8:31 pm
60-year-old man dies in Ashkelon apartment fire
Police open investigation into incident in southern city
By TOI staff
An overlook next to a mikveh, or ritual bath, at the Givat Titora archaeological garden. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 20, 2020, 6:38 am
Post-lockdown field trip? Visit some of Israel’s (320!) archaeological gardens
Free historical sites nationwide, open to the public at all hours, feature Roman-era marble artifacts, ancient sarcophagi, farming implements, Crusader ruins and more
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Illustrative: Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli airstrike in the Khan Younis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020 following rocket fire on Israel. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
September 16, 2020, 4:41 am
After peace deals, Gazans fire 13-rocket salvo at Israel; IDF hits Hamas targets
Iron Dome intercepts 8 missiles in predawn assault; IDF responds with 2 waves of airstrikes; in earlier attack, 2 hurt from Gaza rocket fire as Israel signed historic accords in DC
By Judah Ari Gross
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