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A boy looks at shipping containers in Haifa's port , Israel, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 15, 2025, 2:03 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 15: Day 557 – Tariffs, a tech brain drain and manna from Sicily
Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses US tariffs and the war’s effect on the tech industry; archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin reviews the evolution of Hebrew accents, plus manna in Italy
By Jessica Steinberg, Sharon Wrobel and Rossella Tercatin
A farmer harvests the ‘manna’ sap from an ash tree in the Madonie region in Sicily. (Courtesy of the Museum of the Manna in Pollina)
April 12, 2025, 8:32 am
In this Sicilian town, manna is a heavenly delicacy with deep roots
For centuries, farmers in the Madonie region have harvested sap from ash trees, and called it after a biblical predecessor. Once used for its therapeutic properties, the white, sugary product is now a culinary hit
By Rossella Tercatin
An Israeli man being removed from a flight by Sicily police after he demanded to be seated near his son, in undated footage released on October 21, 2019. (Screenshot: Facebook)
October 22, 2019, 7:53 am
Israeli man removed from plane after demanding to be seated near his son
Flight from Sicily to Tel Aviv was reportedly approaching takeoff when staff decided to go back and call police; eyewitness says issue could have been easily resolved
By ToI Staff
Smoke rises from the Stromboli island during an eruptive activity of the volcano off the Sicilian coast of Messina, southern Italy on Feb. 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Francesco Saya)
July 3, 2019, 11:48 pm
Tourist killed as volcano erupts on Sicily’s Stromboli island
Hikers jump into the Mediterranean for safety after two powerful eruptions rain down fire and molten lava
By AFP
Destroyed yachts and boats lie in the harbour of Rapallo, near Genoa, on October 30, 2018, after a storm hit the region and destroyed a part of the dam the night before. (MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)
November 4, 2018, 4:15 pm
Italy storms claim 12 more lives, raising death toll to 30
Flooding in Sicily kill 9 members of a family as landslides and flash flooding continue to wreak havoc across the region
By AFP
Anti-Israel protesters hold a banner reading 'Israel assassinates, Italy complicit' before the start of the 4th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race between Catania and Caltagirone in Sicily, May 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Luk Benies)
May 8, 2018, 4:10 pm
Anti-Israel protesters try to disrupt Giro d’Italia cycling race in Sicily
Police with batons disperse demonstrators attempting to block competition route in fourth leg of 21-day road contest
By ToI Staff
John Wren from New York, who was 4-years-old when Chips the family pet dog returned from the war effort, with military working dog Ayron, who received the PDSA Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on Chips' behalf, in London on January 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 15, 2018, 10:31 pm
US Army WWII hero dog receives posthumous medal
Chips, a German shepherd-husky cross, attacked enemy soldier by throat, pulled machine gun off its stand during 1943 Sicily landing. He was injured, but survived war
By AP
A coded letter written by a 17th-century Italian nun, who claimed it had been dictated to her by the Devil. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 9, 2017, 7:51 am
17th-century nun’s ‘letter from the Devil’ finally decoded
341 years later, researchers in Sicily turn to the Dark Web for a program to decipher mystery text
By ToI Staff
Palermo Archbishop Corrado Lorefice, left, with Shavei Israel’s emissary to Sicily, Rabbi Pinhas Punturello. (Courtesy of Shavei Israel)
January 10, 2017, 7:47 am
Palermo, Sicily, to get first synagogue in 500 years
In a gesture marking anniversary of expulsion, Catholic Church will finance renovations to create Jewish heritage center
By JTA
Italian coast guard rescues migrants off the coast of Sicily, May 12, 2016. (Italian Navy/Massimo Sestini via UNHCR Italia)
May 13, 2016, 6:45 am
More than 800 migrants rescued off Sicily, many of them Syrian
Alarm raised when coast guard recon plane spots two vessels in difficulty off southeastern coast of Italian island
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a rescue mission to save migrants, September 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Marina Militare)
April 19, 2015, 7:20 pm
Sea of sorrows: Many migrants drown trying to reach Italy
Recent years have seen a seemingly unending stream of Africans risking death in hopes of a better life
By AP
Hanukkah lighting ceremony at the infamous Steri Prison in Palermo, Sicily, the former seat of the local Inquisition. (photo credit: courtesy/ Shavei Israel)
December 5, 2013, 1:43 pm
Hanukkah lighting held at former Inquisition prison
Shavei Israel organization bring together Marranos for a historic event in Sicily at site where Jews were tortured
By Lazar Berman
The casket of one of the migrants who died when their boat capsized off in the Canal of Sicily is carried aboard a Italian Navy ship at the Lampedusa island harbor, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amedeo Fragapane)
October 13, 2013, 1:57 am
Migrant tragedies sharpen calls for safe passage
Humanitarian outcry follows drowning of at least 34 when boat carrying hundreds of Syrians and Palestinians capsizes
By Colleen Barry and Stephen Calleja
March 22, 2013, 11:19 am
Rabbi appointed to work with Bnei Anousim in Italy
Pinchas Punturello will seek to strengthen ties with descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism
December 13, 2012, 8:30 pm
Public menorah vandalized in Sicily
Incident marks second year in a row that assailants have destroyed Hanukkah symbol
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