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  1. Harel13

    The issue of the Israelite riches

    Well, we all know which chag is coming up after Purim... Last night I came across a cool paper by Dr. Aton Holzer. Holzer is a medical doctor who's taken up writing scholarly-level, Torah-related papers in recent years. In this paper he discusses the question of the Israelite right to the...
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    Hebronian Imam opens fire at Jewish community of Hebron

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/386823 Sheikh Mahmoud Nofal, an imam of a mosque (!) in Hebron opened fire at the Jewish neighborhood in Hebron. Fortunately, he was shot by Israeli authorities before he managed to kill anyone. Arab terrorists from the PA never need an excuse to try to...
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    Signature in a book

    I was at a book giveaway earlier today (the archeology institute realized they had too many old books just collecting dust). I found what looks to be a cool find: A book by the renowned pioneering British archeologist Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie called "Seventy Years in Archaeology". What caught...
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    Archeological survey in Tel Safi (Gath)

    Yesterday I joined members of the Tel Safi (Gath of the Philistines) team and a few other students from the archeology department to conduct a survey in the valley near Tel Safi, an extremely large archeological site identified with the city of Gath, largest of the five main Philistine cities...
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    Surprise, surprise. Doctor and UNRWA teacher held Israeli hostages captive

    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381158 According to Israeli Channel 13 correspondent Almog Boker: "Uninvolved," they say, right? Well, read this story carefully. One of the abductees, held for nearly 50 days in an attic, reveals he was held by a UNRWA teacher – a father of ten...
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    IDF releases footage of two non-Israeli hostages being brought into Al-Shifa hospital

    The IDF has released new information regarding the kidnapping of now-deceased Cpl. Noa Marciano, may she rest in peace, as well as footage of two foreign hostages being brought into Al-Shifa hospital.
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    IDF publishes unedited footage showing Hamas equipment in al-Shifa hospital

    The IDF's spokesperson unit released an unedited single-shot tour of some areas of the al-Shifa hospital showing where weapons and other equipment belonging to Hamas were hidden.
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    Weapons Cache from the Bar Kokhba Revolt Found in Israel

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-1900-year-old-roman-swords-discovered-hidden-in-desert-cave/ A couple of months ago, a researcher from Ariel University in Israel explored a cave in the En Gedi area in Israel. The cave had been explored many times before, but he lucked out and found a javelin...
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    Rav Hai Gaon and the Priest

    No...it's not the opening line of a joke. It's an interesting anecdote I first heard in a class a few years ago and came across the actual source a couple of days ago. Thought I'd share. Rabbi Yosef Ibn Aknin, a 12th-13th century thinker, wrote, among other things, a commentary on Song of Songs...
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    First Week of Excavations (Season 2)

    To those who may remember, last year I took part in a full month of archeological excavations at Tel Tibneh in southwestern Samaria and summarized the developments at the end of every week or the middle of the next one. Unfortunately pictures were lost during the fairly-recent software change...
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    Apostumus who burned the Torah

    A famous mishna states that five significant events occurred to our forefathers on the 17th of Tammuz and five on the 9th of Av. One of the five of the 17th of Tammuz is "Apostumus burned the Torah [scroll]". To this day, this event has yet to be properly identified and there are many different...
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    Old beverage can

    The above is one of a number of beverage cans found last summer during our archeological excavations, after having partially cleaned it with lemon juice (due to technical reasons I couldn't leave it any longer in the juice; maybe later this week I'll try again). Does anyone have any idea what...
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    Happy Yom Ha'atzmaut

    No politics, please. This is a thread celebrating Israel. Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. Israel is now 75 years old! The festivities start on the night before with a national ceremony in Jerusalem which includes twelve people from all walks of life who have contributed...
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    Yom Hazikaron

    Today is Yom Hazikaron, Israeli Memorial Day. Memorial Day in Israel is a national day of mourning, of remembering the fallen. The fallen are counted from the year 1860, when the size of the Jewish population in the Land of Israel exhibited sharp climbs in numbers. The fallen include soldiers...
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    Tash (Narnia)

    There's a TL;DR at the end if you don't want to read the entire post. I've had Narnia on mind recently. I'm referring to the books, of course. It was only after reading Narnia several times as a kid that I learned that there were many Christian themes in the book. Other than the celebration of...
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    Translation or text of Pugio Fidei?

    Is anyone aware of an English (or Hebrew...) translation of Raymond Martini's Pugio Fidei (Dagger of Faith)? Or perhaps an online text version in any language that could be translated via Google? Thanks.
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    Whispered in Gaza

    Earlier I came across an article published just yesterday on the Jerusalem Post's website, by Yoseph Haddad, an Arab Israeli: Will the world listen to the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza? From the article: "It has been more than 15 years since the US and EU-designated terror group Hamas...
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    Israel and Sudan to sign peace treaty by year's end

    Israel says peace deal with Sudan to be signed by year’s end From the article: "Israel and Sudan committed on Thursday to completing a normalization agreement in the near future following what Foreign Minister Eli Cohen described as a “historic diplomatic visit” to the Sudanese capital...
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    Bread with bread

    I just discovered this: Toast sandwich - Wikipedia WHY IS THIS A THING??? The Talmud refers a number of times in mocking fashion to a Babylonian custom of eating bread with bread. This custom is the basis of the Talmudic Jewish expression "הני בבלאי טיפשאי דאכלי נהמא בנהמא" - "Those stupid...
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    7 killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem, 2 injured in another attack

    Seven people were killed near a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday night when a 21 year old terrorist with a gun got out of a car and began blasting away. Three more people were injured and taken to the hospital. Palestinian terrorist shoots 7 dead in ‘murderous rampage’ near Jerusalem synagogue...
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