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Will Orthodox Jews say good-bye to Sabbath elevators?
(Photo: Posters for protest in Jerusalem against parking lot open on Sabbath, 8 July 2009/Baz Ratner) In a move that may literally take the breath away from many of the world’s Orthodox Jews, a group...
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Will Orthodox Jews say good-bye to Sabbath elevators?
(Photo: Posters for protest in Jerusalem against parking lot open on Sabbath, 8 July 2009/Baz Ratner) In a move that may literally take the breath away from many of the world’s Orthodox Jews, a group...
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High-flying drones and ocean-bottom tanks feature at Israeli water show
Israeli companies will unveil this month an array of new technologies that will save and maximize use of the world’s most valuable resource… water.The systems range from a drone that flies 300 metres...
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Out of the spotlight, Israel and Vatican negotiate holy sites
Vatican flags raised outside Jerusalem's Old City before Pope Benedict's visit, 6 May 2009/Baz Rattner There have been a series of significant and highly publicised events recently in Vatican-Jewish...
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Israel Museum takes a new look at the history of the Holy Land
A new Jerusalem exhibit displaying a million years of history in the Holy Land offers Bible buffs and skeptics alike a chance to say: “I told you so!” The Israel Museum, fresh-faced after a...
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Israel charges imam with incitement against pope
(Photo: Pope Benedict meets religious leaders in Nazareth, May 14, 2009, with many Muslim clerics in white and red turbans in the audience/Atef Safadi) Israeli authorities have charged the imam of a...
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Gas in the Holy Land: energy prospecting with the Bible as guide
Using the Bible as its guide, Texas-based energy company Zion Oil and Gas has searched for oil in the Holy Land for a decade. The company uses a map of the 12 ancient tribes of Israel and the biblical...
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New Israeli film claims discovery of nails from Jesus’s cross
(Filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici at a news conference in New York, February 26, 2007/Mike Segar) Could two of the nails used to crucify Jesus have been discovered in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jerusalem? And...
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Jerusalem trial fails to end the “brother of Jesus” burial mystery
(Israel Antiquities Authority workers prepare ossuaries, found during an excavation in Jerusalem 27 years ago, for display in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh February 27, 2007. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)...
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Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial amends text on Pope Pius XII
(An image depicting Pope Pius XII is displayed at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem April 15, 2007. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman) Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has amended its account of...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Israel charged with spying for Iran
(Members of Neturei Karta, a fringe ultra-Orthodox movement within the anti-Zionist bloc, pose with Turkish and Palestinian flags during a protest against Israel organized by Turkey’s pro-Islamic...
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest after funds cut in Israel conscription row
(Israeli border policemen scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a demonstration in Jerusalem February 6, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner) Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel blocked...
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Israel’s top court says mother need not have son circumcised
By Ari Rabinovitch (Relatives look at a baby after his circumcision in Jerusalem September 24, 2012. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun) Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned a ruling by a court of rabbis that would...
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