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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announces his decision to resign and stand-down from politics at a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, December 5, 2016. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)
December 5, 2016, 9:08 am
John Key: New Zealand’s popular ‘anti-politician’ PM
Former foreign currency trader maintained strong favor with the public during eight years in office
By Neil SANDS
Market in the Old City, leading down from Maronite Convent Road (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 2, 2013, 5:59 am
In the footsteps of a master forger
In 1883, antiques dealer Moses Wilhelm Shapira claimed to possess ancient scrolls of Deuteronomy. The text differed slightly from the accepted version: It had an 11th Commandment
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
July 16, 2012, 12:52 pm
Jewish billionaire Michael Moritz gives $115 million to Oxford
Funding a scholarship program in honor of his father who escaped Nazi Germany and studied at Oxford with similar financial assistance
Israeli troops in the neighborhood of Yemin Moshe, facing the Old City walls, June 1948. (Courtesy of the Government Press Office, Jerusalem)
April 24, 2012, 3:04 pm
‘An oppressive atmosphere of evil and hate seems to be creeping over Jerusalem’
In Part II of Hugh Jones’ unpublished diary from the 1948 war, the British clergyman describes the fall of the Jewish Quarter, the gruesome fate of one local man — and a few determined rounds of tennis
By Matti Friedman
Israeli troops at Mt. Zion, just outside the Old City walls, 1948 (Courtesy of the Government Press Office)
April 23, 2012, 4:20 pm
War diary: An eyewitness account of the 1948 battle for Jerusalem
Caught between Jewish and Arab forces fighting in Jerusalem’s Old City was a British clergyman, Hugh Jones. Refusing to flee to safety, Jones instead recorded a journal, never published, that offers a unique personal glimpse of the drama and tragedy of Israel’s birth
By Matti Friedman
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