Tamar Hayardeni

Tamar Hayardeni A licensed tour guide and research fellow at the Ben-Zvi Institute, Hayardeni has also authored several children’s books
Zoharei Hama sundial, built by Moshe Shapira

Place in the Sun

Autodidact Moshe Shapira emerged from Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Me’a She’arim as an expert in both astronomy and sundials. Two of his...

It Takes a (Hasidic) Village

Who exactly were the Hasidic devotees who gave Kfar Hasidim its name? What led them to leave Poland and settle...

Escape Room

Sara Rosenberg’s flight from British Mandate authorities passed through hospitals and prisons all over Palestine. Who was this underground fighter,...

All-inclusive hotel package, 19th-century-style. Female pilgrims in the Russian Compound hostel

Scent of Freedom

“Bevingrad” was the highest-security British prison in the Middle East, but that didn’t stop Jewish paramilitaries from lying through their...

The Bristol Beaufighter was one of the most effective bombers manufactured in Britain in World War II. Almost six thousand took to the skies during the war, fighting on nearly all fronts for the British, Australian, and American air forces. British Beaufighter

Sky-Heist

In a daring smuggling operation right out of Hollywood, four bombers arrived in Israel just in time to make a...

Akra or not, the fortress exposed in the City of David excavations is clearly a Hellenist structure with impressive defenses, including thick walls, towers, and a glacis, or slope

Cast a Giant Shadow

The giant Akra fortress and its garrison of Hellenist soldiers sowed fear among Jerusalem’s Jewish residents well after Hasmonean victories...

In the 1950s, Eilat was a small, isolated frontier settlement on Israel’s southernmost tip, developing into a town only in the 1960s. After the peace accords with Egypt, it was once again Israel’s only outlet to the Red Sea, and hotel tourism followed apace. Eilat in 2012

Eilat’s Treasures

Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored...

Rock drawings and inscriptions found in Wadi Rum – the longest and deepest stream bed in Jordan – testify to an early Nabatean presence. Prehistoric remains from the area show that humans have been active here for at least twelve millennia

Nabateans in the Bible

The book of Jeremiah describes a mysterious tribe with many seemingly Nabatean customs. Could the Rechabites have been Nabateans?

In the 1950s, Eilat was a small, isolated frontier settlement on Israel’s southernmost tip, developing into a town only in the 1960s. After the peace accords with Egypt, it was once again Israel’s only outlet to the Red Sea, and hotel tourism followed apace. Eilat in 2012

Lost in Eilat

Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored...

The classic façades carved out of Petra’s red rock make it one of the most impressive man-made sites in the world

Lords of the Desert

After dominating the desert landscape of the Middle East and controlling the immensely profitable Incense Route for almost thirteen hundred...

Locking Horns at the Battle of Hattin

The Crusaders lost the Battle of Hattin not because they were fewer, weaker, or less fierce than Saladin’s army. Ill-prepared...

The Kaiser’s Cap

Fact and fiction intertwine in the tale of Jerusalem’s historic Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which tipped its hat to Austria’s Kaiser...

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