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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Daniel Estrin

In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai hold a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah, the text read around Jewish dinner tables on the Passover holiday, in their home in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)
April 10, 2017, 11:35 am
Jewish family renews fight for world’s oldest illustrated haggadah
13th-century Passover manuscript, owned by German Jewish lawmaker Ludwig Marum until he was taken by the Nazis, now housed in the Israel Museum
By Daniel Estrin
Alan Dershowitz speaks at an event at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on December 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 30, 2017, 3:18 pm
Dershowitz says Trump ‘clearly’ endorsed Palestinian state
After meeting earlier this month, Jewish lawyer says US president ‘anxious to make a deal,’ is surprisingly knowledgeable about complexities of conflict
By Daniel Estrin
Jared Kushner, senior adviser to US President Donald Trump, listens as Trump delivers remarks to auto industry executives at American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Michigan on March 15, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
March 25, 2017, 2:31 pm
Trump son-in-law’s ties to Israel raise questions of bias
Jared Kushner’s personal links to Netanyahu, and his family’s deals with major Israeli companies, could undermine US Mideast peace efforts
By Daniel Estrin
In this March 17, 2017 photo, Jose Luis Garcia embraces and cries as he says goodbye to his little brother that departs to Bogota on his way to Israel, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
March 23, 2017, 7:43 am
After bureaucracy battle, 9 Venezuelan converts immigrate to Israel
New arrivals fly in after fight for government recognition, with a stopover in Colombia for a second ritual conversion
By Daniel Estrin and Joshua Goodman
The renovated Edicule is seen in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be the site of the crucifixion of Jesus, in Jerusalem's Old City March 20, 2017. A Greek restoration team has completed a historic renovation of the Edicule, the shrine that tradition says houses the cave where Jesus was buried and rose to heaven. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)
March 20, 2017, 9:25 pm
Historic restoration of Jesus’s burial shrine in Jerusalem completed
In October, when conservation work was in full swing, experts said they’d found original limestone bed on which Jesus was laid to rest
By Daniel Estrin
An ossuary with an inscription of Hebrew letters forming the word "Yeshua", or Jesus, is stored in Israel's antiquities authority storeroom, in Beit Shemesh, March 19, 2017. Israel's antiquities authority opened up its vast storeroom to reporters Sunday for a peek at select artifacts from the time of Jesus. Experts say they have yet to find direct archaeological evidence of the Jewish preacher who died on the cross and changed the course of history. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
March 20, 2017, 12:30 am
In an Israeli warehouse, clues about Jesus’ life and death
Ahead of Easter, archaeologists discuss wealth of material that helps fill out understanding of his times, exhibit ancient burial box with Hebrew letters forming name ‘Yeshua’
By Daniel Estrin
Israeli children in second grade use computers in a classroom as part of a study program of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Education Ministry (Kobi Gideon / Flash90)
February 4, 2017, 1:21 pm
In Israel, teaching kids cyber skills is a national mission
New training programs aim to prepare children for careers in military intelligence, defense agencies, the high-tech industry and academia
By Daniel Estrin
In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, Natan Sharansky, the Jewish Agency's chairman is seen during a press conference (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
February 1, 2017, 6:18 am
Israel allows 9 Venezuelan Jewish converts to immigrate
Authorities had initially rejected group’s bid, saying they did not meet criteria, but Jewish Agency has mediated a compromise
By Daniel Estrin and Joshua Goodman
General Secretary of the French far-right National Front (FN) political party and European MP Nicolas Bay poses for a picture in Jerusalem on January 26, 2017, during a four day visit to meet with Israeli politicians and members of the French Jewish community. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
January 26, 2017, 8:43 pm
Secretary of French far-right party holds meetings in Israel
Nicolas Bay on ‘private visit’ to gain support for France’s upcoming elections meets with political, military, figures
By Daniel Estrin and Elaine Ganley
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner dance at the Freedom Ball, in Washington, January 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
January 26, 2017, 12:12 pm
Is Ivanka Jewish? In Israel, she has a Trump card
Since Donald Trump’s election, Israel’s rabbinical establishment seems more eager to rethink restrictive conversion rules
By Daniel Estrin
This undated photo released by the Israel Antiquities Authority shows an ancient charred scroll destroyed in a fire centuries ago. (Israel Antiquities Authority via AP)
September 22, 2016, 2:39 am
3D tech proves Hebrew Bible ‘unchanged for 2000 years’
Digital analysis of X ray scan allows researchers to ‘read’ ancient, charred Ein Gedi scroll too fragile to unwrap
By Daniel Estrin
In this March 28, 2016 file photo, Gilbert Chikli, 50, and his wife Shirly Chikli, 31, pose for a photo at their home in Ashdod, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
June 7, 2016, 10:23 pm
Israeli con men steal millions from global companies
In international scam, 8 French and Italian-speaking Israelis trick workers into transferring money to bank accounts in their control
By Daniel Estrin and Erika Kinetz
In this photo taken Wednesday, April 13, 2016, Eli and Shuli Barzilai holds a copy of the Birds' Head Haggadah in their home in Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty)
April 21, 2016, 11:49 am
Jerusalem family lays claim to museum’s famed medieval haggadah
Descendants of German Ludwig Marum, one of Hitler’s earliest victims, allege mysterious Birds’ Head manuscript was stolen by Nazis and sold to Israel Museum
By Daniel Estrin
Police seen at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 10, 2016. (Corina Kern/Flash90)
April 12, 2016, 11:03 am
Violence wanes, but fears linger in scarred Jerusalem
As police note downturn after months of attacks, capital shows signs of return to normalcy, but many residents still avoid opposite side of city
By Daniel Estrin
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the CyberTech 2016 conference in January (Courtesy)
February 17, 2016, 6:42 pm
Covertly, Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online
Jewish state to use technological expertise to fight delegitimization efforts and protect its international image
By Daniel Estrin
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