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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Elah Valley

Eyal Drory (left), Shuki Yashuv and Elad Katz, co-owners of Agur Winery, hosting wine tastings in June 2024. (Courtesy)
June 13, 2024, 4:32 pm
Bottled up by war, Judean hills vintners open anew to let visitors ‘breathe a little’
Wineries from the Matte Yehuda region offer a month of tastings and tours with notes of melancholy and grief for those affected by the fighting and hostage crisis
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli animal activist Nora Lifschitz holds a wounded fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at her new bat shelter in Israel's central Elah Valley, south of Beit Shemesh, on June 22, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
July 1, 2016, 12:59 pm
Israel’s ‘Batwoman’ works in secret to heal winged friends
At first, Nora Lifschitz took care of fruit bats in her Tel Aviv apartment, but growing numbers made her realize she needed to relocate
By Jonah Mandel
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
July 7, 2015, 11:42 am
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Beit Shemesh, where King David lost
The wanton and frenetic construction of ultra-Orthodox housing is bulldozing precious archeological history
An inscription with the name Ishba'al son of Beda on a 10th century BCE jar. (Tal Rogovsky)
June 16, 2015, 10:56 am
Inscription bearing name from Davidic era found at ancient site
Ishba’al son of Beda, inscribed on 10th century BCE jar, likely not the same as a rival to King David with the same name, but discovery confirms popularity of moniker 3,000 years ago
By Ilan Ben Zion
Israeli youths use kites to snowboard on a snow-covered field in the Golan Heights, January 8, 2015 (photo credit: Basal Awidat/Flash90)
January 9, 2015, 10:17 am
Below freezing temperatures in capital as snow halts
Heavy rains, hail over weekend; Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway reopened
By Lazar Berman
The palace at Qeifaya (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 27, 2014, 8:51 am
In a palace at Qeifaya, David savored his victory over Goliath
The young monarch built a city in the Elah Valley that reflected his need to show strength and to ensure protection
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Illustrative photo of an oil rig (photo credit: Dwight Burdette/Wikimedia Commons/File)
September 18, 2014, 9:27 pm
Israel’s oil wars shift to the Golan Heights
Environmentalists made headlines two weeks ago when they blocked a controversial oil shale pilot project in the Shfela; largely unnoticed, the same US parent company has won approval for exploratory drilling up north
By Melanie Lidman
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