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{image_1}“Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!…Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed…and gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south” (Psalm 107:1–3). In August, 27 American youths came to Israel to enlist in the army. They were among 210 new immigrants from North America, who were greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Their flight was the third of 15 planned this past summer by Nefesh B’Nefesh, who announced that 3,200 will arrive from the United States and Canada this year.
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{image_1}Etrog is Hebrew for citron, but what’s a citron? It is not a mystery in Israel, but it is for most of the world. An etrog is a lemon-like fruit, not commonly eaten by Israelis, but used during the harvest festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees [citron], branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days” (Lev. 23:40). The citron and lulav (branches) are waved before the Lord to the east, west, south, and north, up and down, acknowledging that God is everywhere.
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{image_1}“Now the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of meeting there. And the land was subdued before them.” Joshua 18:1
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{image_1}The third season of renewed excavations at Ramat Rachel––a kibbutz (communal settlement) and popular conference center southeast of Jerusalem’s city center––has come to a close with several exceptional finds, including a piece of a proto-Ionic (or proto-Aeolic) capital from the Iron Age (seventh to sixth centuries BC). To date, only 12 such capitals have been found in Judea, with one from the City of David in Jerusalem and now 11 from Ramat Rachel. The proto-Ionic capital was also used on seals in the Early Iron Age before writing in the Israelite kingdom and can be seen today on the back of the five-shekel coin.
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{image_1}In August, Israeli army units operating in the village of Salim, near the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus (Shechem, Samaria), discovered a 22-lb (10-kg) bomb hidden inside the carcass of a lamb. Similar bombs were also found packed inside an old car battery and a gas cylinder. All these terrorist devices were safely diffused by sappers.
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{image_1}During the summer, Arab workers began extensive work on the Temple Mount itself, with hardly a mention hitting the press. Workers dug a two-foot deep trench running the length from the northern part of the platform, where the golden Dome of the Rock Mosque is located, to the southern end of the Temple Mount complex. The work was to lay new telephone and cable lines. While the police sanctioned the work, there was no archaeological supervision, meaning that the extent of the damage done to any antiquities is unknown.
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{image_1}Joseph Cory, an Israeli scientist at Haifa’s Technion Israel Institute of Technology, has developed a new way to produce electricity using helium balloons made from fabric coated with photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. These balloons are much cheaper to build and install than existing solar panels and also take up far less room, a significant factor in an urban environment.
Continue Reading »An Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system is the talk of the town in Israel. Rafael, the national authority for the development of weapons and military technology, has said that the Iron Dome can be operational in 18 months. Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes a future pullout from the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) depends heavily on the Iron Dome being operative. During an inspection of the project at Rafael, Barak said the system was of “national importance.”
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However, as Israelis evaluate and recover from one war, they must train and prepare for any future threats against the Jewish state. Syria, supported by Iran, has given several warnings to Israel that if a peace is not achieved soon, then they may have no option but to go to war in order to “liberate” the Golan Heights. The war could be fought directly by Syria, by proxy through the Hizbullah, or by a new Syrian terror group using Hizbullah-style tactics.
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{image_1}Laying out his foreign policy positions, US Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said it “is not in the interest of the United States, at a time when it is being threatened by Islamist terrorists, to assist the creation of another state that will support terrorism.”
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