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Staff work at the Magen David Adom's (MDA) Marcus National Blood Services Center, in Ramla, October 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
November 4, 2023, 8:17 am
Underground blood bank proves its worth amid rocket barrages
Fortified structure in Ramla has molecular lab, air-filtration system to let staff work even during chemical or biological warfare, safe room to shield against missile attacks
By Alon Bernstein and SAM MEDNICK
Holocaust survivor Sarah Epstein, left, and her daughter Tali arrive at a ceremony awarding the Jewish Rescuers Citation to members of the Zionist youth movement underground in Hungary, at Kibbutz HaZorea, northern Israel, December 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
January 28, 2023, 6:53 am
78 years on, Hungarian Jewish Holocaust rescuers want their story told
Little-known underground youth network smuggled around 7,000 Jews out of Hungary in one of WWII’s largest rescue operations
By Alon Bernstein
Fishermen remove fish from nets after returning from a fishing trip on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Israeli Arab village of Jisr az-Zarqa, in the early morning of Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 26, 2021, 7:42 am
After oil spill, fishermen at Jisr az-Zarqa net catch despite seafood sales ban
At impoverished village, locals hit by the pandemic have taken another blow with the recent environmental disaster, but insist on continuing their work
By Ilan Ben Zion and Alon Bernstein
Nuns, asylum seekers and foreign workers wait in line to receive their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 9, 2021, 5:15 pm
Foreign nationals, asylum seekers get COVID-19 vaccines in Tel Aviv
Initiative by city hall and hospital aims to help Israel ‘vaccinate everybody within the nation’s borders’
By Alon Bernstein and Ariel Schalit
Corals at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences coral farm in the Red Sea city of Eilat, southern Israel, January 17, 2019. (Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences/Dror Komet via AP)
February 20, 2019, 1:52 pm
Northern Red Sea coral reefs may be able to survive a hot, grim future
Israeli researchers find local strains of vital marine invertebrates can resist higher temperatures, opening possibilities of repopulating other areas devastated by global warming
By Alon Bernstein and Isabel Debre
A sandbar shark is caught by researchers near the Orot Rabin power plant in Hadera where the gushing hot water used to cool the turbines draws draws schools of sharks that are increasingly endangered by overfishing. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
January 31, 2019, 11:00 am
Sharks drawn to warm waters of Hadera power plant
Expert say warming Mediterranean Sea stimulates predatory fish’s metabolisms, improves breathing cycles and facilitates pregnancies
By Alon Bernstein and Isabel Debre
In this photo from August 6, 2018, crocodiles rest at a a farm in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
August 10, 2018, 1:26 am
Israel faces crocodile conundrum with 700 stranded reptiles
Hundreds are housed at a defunct tourist attraction and they are multiplying; official warns that a loose croc in the Jordan River could spark ‘an international incident’
By ISAAC SCHARF and Alon Bernstein
Illustrative: Detail from 'Noli me tangere' by Titian, c. 1512, depicting a meeting between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. (public domain via wikipedia)
April 1, 2018, 1:23 am
Long maligned, Mary Magdalene now seen as stalwart disciple
Scholars, pope, and new film rehabilitate image of prominent Jesus follower, casting her as a strong woman rather than reformed ex-prostitute
By Alon Bernstein and ISAAC SCHARF
David Friedman testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine his nomination to be US Ambassador to Israel on Capitol Hill February 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Zach Gibson)
February 17, 2017, 1:03 am
In Beit El, Trump’s Israel envoy pick a well-known figure
David Friedman a major donor to yeshiva in West Bank settlement; residents believe he will be ‘excellent’ choice for ambassadorship
By Alon Bernstein
50,000 mirrors, known as heliostats,encircle the solar tower in the Negev desert, near Ashelim, southern Israel, December 22, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)
January 5, 2017, 1:23 pm
Israel harnessing sunshine with world’s tallest solar tower
Ashalim project in the Negev desert aims to boost renewable energy supplies by providing enough power for 130,000 households
By ISAAC SCHARF and Alon Bernstein
Anett Haskia at her house in Kibbutz Yehiam, Israel, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)
January 1, 2015, 10:58 am
Iconoclast Arab supporter of IDF seeks Knesset seat
Anett Haskia, a Muslim kibbutznik, is a candidate with the right-wing national religious Jewish Home party
By Alon Bernstein and ISAAC SCHARF
In this photo taken Thursday, May 15, 2014, the green sea turtle, named "Hofesh," the Hebrew word for "freedom," receives a new prosthetic fin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, Israel. (Photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)
May 17, 2014, 3:59 pm
Israeli team’s prosthetic fin saves ‘Freedom’ the turtle
Design modeled after wings of a US fighter jet; reptile had two flippers amputated due to fishing net damage
By Alon Bernstein
Palestinian Khaled Zir sits with his children inside a cave in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Zir said the family moved into a cave after their home was demolished by Israeli authorities. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
August 28, 2013, 12:24 am
Palestinian family moves to cave after home demolished
‘I did not have any place to go to,’ says Khalid Zir, a father of five
By Alon Bernstein
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