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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
Excavation at Eshtaol along Route 38. (photo credit: Yoli Shwarz, courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 25, 2013, 4:24 pm
10,000-year-old house uncovered outside Jerusalem
With range of dramatic finds in excavations ahead of highway expansion, archaeologists trace 10 millennia of human development
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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