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Wild olive trees exposed to westerly winds from the Mediterranean at Atlit, northern Israel, have taken on strange shapes, February 17, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
March 8, 2025, 11:14 am
Experts unite to protect what could be the last wild olive trees in Israel – or the world
The largest known population of the ancient plants grows on fossilized sand ridges in the north and could prove helpful for the olive industry during climate change, researchers say
By Sue Surkes
People snorkel in the Mediterranean Sea in Gador sea reserve, in Hadera, northern Israel, Oct. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 14, 2022, 11:04 am
As Mediterranean warms, Israel takes action to protect its marine life 
Israel works to protect parts of coastline, a measure experts say is crucial to maintain biodiversity and shield ecosystems from humanity, and could be blueprint for rescuing seas
By Ilan Ben Zion
Monticello exterior (Courtesy of PerlePress Productions)
February 17, 2022, 1:56 am
The lost story of how a Jewish family saved Thomas Jefferson’s famous home – twice
New documentary film ‘The Levys of Monticello’ shows how uncle and nephew fought antisemitism to rescue Monticello from ruin and preserve it for future generations to enjoy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this May 25, 2014, photo, a seven-year-old male Asiatic Cheetah called 'Koushki,' crouches at the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in Jajarm, northeastern Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
January 10, 2022, 10:27 am
Iran says only 12 Asiatic cheetahs left in the country
Endangered cats have fallen victim to drought, hunting and car accidents, especially in the Islamic Republic’s central desert
By AFP
From left to right, rabbis Shabbos Kestenbaum, Avi Weiss, Ezra Seligsohn, and Jonathan Leener protest the location of a church in a former SS headquarters across from the former Nazi death camp Birkenau, January 27, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
January 30, 2020, 4:17 am
Church in former Auschwitz SS headquarters is ‘desecration,’ say activist rabbis
As world leaders poured in to commemorate the 75th liberation of the Nazi death camp on January 27, a handful of clergy demanded it be moved to less sacred ground for Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Interior of the St. Petersburg Grand Choral Synagogue, during morning service on Friday morning September 14, 2018. (Rossella Tercatin/ Times of Israel)
December 23, 2019, 10:27 am
As prewar synagogues decay, European body calls for official preservation action
Of the fraction of Jewish houses of worship not destroyed in WWII, nearly 25% are at risk, report adopted by Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly finds
By Robert Philpot
Skin removal on the proximal part of the metapodials and tendons removal in combination with skinning during the experimentation. (Dr. Ruth Blasco)
October 9, 2019, 9:14 pm
Archaeologists discover 400,000-year-old paleo snack pack in Israeli cave
Researchers find prehistoric man had technique for storing bone marrow for up to nine weeks, which they replicate in gruesome experiment
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
In this July 16, 2019 photo, Palestinians work on a preservation of a Byzantine period mosiac near Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
August 7, 2019, 12:27 pm
Gazans struggle to protect antiquities from neglect, looting
Hamas has done little to protect Gaza’s historical artifacts and in some cases actively destroys them
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Ghassan Manduri, 36, from the Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangariyye in the Galilee, in court on suspicion of poisoning eight rare griffon vultures, May 13, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
May 13, 2019, 1:46 pm
Court remands suspect in poisoning of Golan Heights vultures
Lawyer says suspect, a rancher, denies deliberately contaminating cow carcass, wiping out about half the vulture population in the area
By ToI Staff
The carcasses of eight vultures found poisoned in the Golan Heights on May 10, 2019. (Nature and Parks Authority)
May 12, 2019, 10:06 pm
Suspect arrested over poisoning of Golan Heights vultures
Man in his 30s from Galilee village said to have sprayed toxin on cow carcass to keep predators away, leading to deaths of half of local vulture population
By ToI Staff
A poisoned vulture is treated after being poisoned in the Golan Heights, May 10, 2019 YouTube screenshot)
May 10, 2019, 3:19 pm
Eight vultures die of poisoning in Golan, in ‘mortal blow’ to local population
Officials say the deaths cut species’ numbers in the area by half, amid painstaking conservation efforts
By ToI Staff
Artist's impression of a cable car crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley to Mount Zion from a promotional video. (YouTube)
October 11, 2018, 9:48 pm
Architects’ association questions legality of Jerusalem cable car project
As Nature and Parks Authority prepares to discuss plan on Sunday, two professional bodies call for project to be halted
By Sue Surkes
Anne Frank's hiding place bedroom during the 1950s (left) and her restored bedroom at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam today (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
June 10, 2017, 7:21 am
Publication of Anne Frank’s diary saved her ‘Secret Annex’ from destruction
60 years ago, the Netherlands avoided ‘national scandal’ when activists rescued the wartime hiding place
By Matt Lebovic
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, right, and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gesture as they pose for the photographers as they attend the "Ancient Civilizations Forum" (ACForum) at Zappeio Conference Hall in Athens, April 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
April 24, 2017, 8:44 pm
‘Ancient civilizations’ team up to protect heritage from terrorism
10 nations launch effort at Athens meeting in wake of Islamic State’s destruction of ancient sites
By AFP
The sanctuary of Boston’s Vilna Shul, including the sloped women’s gallery in the background, as photographed on July 17, 2015. (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)
July 29, 2015, 1:57 pm
Layers of colorful history revealed at Boston’s ‘comeback shul’
Beloved by Leonard Nimoy, Beacon Hill’s tucked away Vilna Shul — the city’s oldest — is the scene of Jewish renewal for the second time in a century
By Matt Lebovic
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