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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

The Land of Israel

Cpt. Amichai Friedman, rabbi of the Nahal battalion military base, speaks to soldiers from a stage, November 4, 2023. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 5, 2023, 5:29 pm
IDF disavows comments by military rabbi calling for conquering Gaza and Lebanon
Rabbi Amichai Friedman tells soldiers that past month has been ‘happiest of my life’ because nation is ‘finally understanding who we are’ following Hamas’s October 7 atrocities
By Michael Horovitz
The Temple Mount depicted in the Florence Scroll, currently on display at the Israel Museum (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
October 8, 2021, 9:34 am
Museum unveils 14th century hand-painted scroll depicting ancient Israel
The Florence Scroll, painted by an Egyptian Jewish pilgrim, is unrolled and displayed at the Israel Museum in the ‘Painting a Pilgrimage’ exhibit
By Jessica Steinberg
Samaritans sitting under their Sukkah decorated with fruits and vegetables during Sukkot holiday. Nablus, Palestinian territories, October 2017. (Yadid Levy)
April 3, 2021, 8:01 am
Samaritan cookbook introduces ancient people’s cuisine to new global audiences
Filled by recipes, gorgeous photographs and historical background, ‘Samaritan Cookbook’ provides taste of life in enigmatic community split between Israel and Palestinian Authority
By Renee Ghert-Zand
"Plague in Rome" Jules Elie Delaunay, 1869. (Public domain)
April 18, 2020, 6:43 pm
When an ancient pandemic killed millions in Roman Empire, crippled world economy
The Israel Museum highlights the story of the Antonine Plague, which erupted in 165 CE, wreaked devastation for a decade
By ToI Staff
Inscribed late 9th or early 8th century BCE altar that was discovered in a Moabite sanctuary at the Khirbat Ataruz site in central Jordan in 2010. (Courtesy of Adam Bean)
August 28, 2019, 7:24 pm
Newly deciphered Moabite inscription may be first use of written word ‘Hebrews’
Cylindrical altar from 3,000 years ago found in Jordan also offers first evidence of early Moabite script — and could repaint picture of geopolitics in the ancient Levantine world
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A lithograph depicting Abraham making an oath to the Philistine King Abimelech. (University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection)
July 9, 2019, 2:49 am
PM: Palestinian ties to land ‘nothing compared to 4,000-year Jewish connection’
Tweets by Netanyahu, noting evidence of European origin of the Philistines, coincide with Sarsour’s ‘Jesus was Palestinian’ claims, in debate over ancient history and modern rights
By Ben Sales
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a memorial ceremony marking 21 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Israeli parliament on November 13, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 19, 2017, 9:32 pm
Netanyahu lambasted for incitement in insider’s Rabin biography
Former diplomat Itamar Rabinovich paints a dark ‘j’accuse’ against the Israeli right, leading up to and following the prime minister’s assassination
By JP O’ Malley
Education Minister and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 6, 2016, 5:05 am
Likud slams ‘hypocritical’ Bennett over Palestinian statehood kerfuffle
Jewish Home leader has accused PM Netanyahu of opposing a Palestinian state in Hebrew while supporting it in English
By ToI Staff
Naftali Bennett (left) and Aryeh Deri (center) with Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (right) ahead of Yosef's daughter's wedding, on June 2, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)
June 5, 2016, 10:57 pm
Bennett charges PM with two-faced stance on Palestinian state
Jewish Home leader doubles down on rejection of two-state solution, claims Netanyahu says one thing in English, another in Hebrew
By ToI Staff
A new Israeli immigrant receiving an identification card, Jerusalem, May 3, 2010. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)
September 9, 2014, 10:54 pm
The end of aliya?
The vast majority of the Jewish Diaspora is now prosperous, safe and English-speaking; such people won’t immigrate because Israeli bureaucrats tell them to
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The old invitation to the exhibition, as sent out before the event in June 2014 (courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
June 10, 2014, 4:53 pm
UNESCO’s nixed exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel finally goes on display
Canceled in January due to Arab pressure, the exhibition, now cosponsored by US government, opens Wednesday in Paris
By Raphael Ahren
Atlanta native and Knesset hopeful Jeremy Gimpel (photo credit: courtesy Jeremy Gimpel campaign)
January 21, 2013, 2:41 pm
Gimpel has said Dome of the Rock ‘doesn’t belong there,’ but not that it must be blown up
US-born Jewish Home candidate, under fire for apparently relishing golden dome’s replacement by Jewish temple, has a history of hardline pronouncements
By Raphael Ahren
The 'virtual forest' (photo credit: Courtesy)
January 16, 2013, 10:28 am
When planting a virtual tree, say a real prayer
A tree planted online ‘counts’ as much as one planted in the ground, says Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger
By David Shamah
Death to America, from Iran (photo credit: screen capture, The Land of Israel Youtube video)
April 22, 2012, 6:13 pm
Israel’s ‘right’ to hit Iran goes viral
YouTube clips, viewed by over 2 million people, compare Iranian threat to the Holocaust
By Michal Shmulovich
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