Despite the need for secrecy, and with production lines under fire, Israel’s first stamps were printed in time for...
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Rediscovered in the 19th century, the Nabateans’ hidden capital, necropolis, and treasure-house at Petra became a forbidden, sometimes fatal...
While Herzl is universally accredited with organising the First Zionist Congress in 1897, meetings and conferences were already...
An international team of archaeological diggers unearthed the remains of two ritual baths formerly used by congregants of the...
Ordered as charity, 'Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz' is considered to be one of Amadeo Modigliani's most sophisticated paintings
Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger (1836–1922) was a controversial, eccentric, passionate, premodern Zionist from Hungary who moved to Ottoman Palestine...
Though few famous names attended the first Zionist Congress in Basel, the enormous energy Herzl invested to ensure the...
Uzi Eilam’s rich and fascinating military career peaked when he commanded his paratrooper unit to retake the Old City...
Among the many worthwhile events in Jerusalem this summer commemorating fifty years since the Six-Day War, an exhibit by...
Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage...
The first place ever to issue stamps showing a synagogue and marked with Hebrew lettering was, surprisingly enough, the...
Certification that a husband and wife are both in fact single? A look at a peculiarly Orthodox method of...
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