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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

Jonah the prophet

Erica Brown
August 30, 2017, 1:35 pm
Erica Brown
Spiritual fugitives
When you come to reinvent yourself, expect to experience discomfort in the self-confrontation that will make you new
A fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story, from the 5th-century synagogue at Huqoq, in northern Israel, unveiled in 2017. (Jim Haberman/University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
July 7, 2017, 5:22 pm
Earliest mosaic of Jonah and the whale found in Galilee synagogue
Artwork uncovered at Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq also shows building the Tower of Babel and a Greco-Roman calendar
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
June 10, 2017, 12:51 am
Bernard-Henri Levy: ‘I’ve always found it quite shocking and beautiful to speak to one’s enemy’
On recent trip to Israel, French-Jewish intellectual promoted his new book on Judaism and explained what it’s like to be a modern-day Jonah
By PIERRE-SIMON ASSOULINE
People inspect the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, in Mosul, Iraq, on July 24, 2014. (AP)
February 28, 2017, 12:29 pm
Islamic State looting uncovers ancient palace beneath Jonah’s Tomb
Archaeologists in Iraq find residence of biblical kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon in IS-dug tunnels beneath ruined shrine, according to report
By ToI Staff and AFP
People inspect the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, in Mosul, Iraq, on July 24, 2014. (AP)
January 17, 2017, 3:30 am
Iraqi forces retake IS-bombed ‘Jonah’s tomb’ in Mosul
The shrine, the reputed burial site of the Biblical prophet, was destroyed in 2014 by terror group as it swept into city
By AFP
The citadel near Ashdod, built by Caliph Abed el Malek, who also built Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock in 691 (Shmuel Bar-Am)
April 30, 2016, 11:17 am
In tourist-friendly Ashdod, where the coastline has witnessed Israel’s history since Jonah
Givat Yona — Jonah’s Hill — has always been considered a strategic site; the Via Maris – the ancient Way of the Sea – passed right below
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
People inspect the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, in Mosul, Iraq, on July 24, 2014. (AP)
July 25, 2014, 11:32 am
Islamic State destroys Jonah’s Tomb in Mosul
Radical army continues to impose reign of terror on Mosul as Iraq faces major crises
By Sameer N. Yacoub and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Matt Abelson
November 1, 2012, 12:36 pm
Matt Abelson
Daylight in the whale’s belly: Jonah, and Obama’s Israel trust gap
It’s true that by the second half of his tenure, the president’s approach toward Israel seemed to evolve, but it was never clear that his basic thinking had changed
The ancient fortress at Givat Yona (photo credit: c/o Israel Antiquities Authority)
February 6, 2012, 7:58 pm
Evidence of human settlement found on Jonah’s Hill
Fortress overlooking sea discovered at location associated with well-known prophet’s grave site
By ToI Staff
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