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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...

Damned If You Do

Correspondence by and about a Jewish U.S. Army chaplain working in Dachau reveals a hero battling bureaucracy to help his...

Harbinger of nationalism. Yaqub James Sanua

Egypt’s Jewish Molière

Banished from Egypt time and again for promoting nationalism and exposing government corruption, James Sanua harnessed humor and drama to...

סר אייזק ניוטון בשיא הקריירה שלו. גודפרי קנלר, שמן על בד, 1702

Newton’s Fourth Law

For Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of motion and mathematics were not personal discoveries, but divine gifts, encoded into the...

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