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A 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath weighing about 25 tons was lifted intact from the ground in the southern city of Kiryat Gat this summer, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Thursday. The Second Temple-period mikveh was uncovered during salvage excavations before construction in the city’s Carmei Gat neighborhood. The discovery provides evidence of a previously unknown Jewish settlement between the Judean Lowlands and the northern Negev, the IAA said. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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The Kaparot ritual involves reciting a brief prayer while swinging a live chicken above one’s head three times in the belief that this transfers one’s sins to the chicken ahead of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Read more:
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Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets in the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the Hamas terror group. Footage appeared to show protesters carrying signs reading, “God willing, Hamas out,” “We are not pawns,” and “We want to live.” Read more on The Times of Israel.
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WATCH: Buried beneath a hilltop village in southern Lebanon, just kilometers from the Israeli border, the Hezbollah terror group built an underground drone “airbase” from which it launched Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles at Israel. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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In this week's episode of What Matters Now, host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaks with the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt. As antisemitism surges worldwide by some 900% over the past decade, Greenblatt explores how the 113-year-old organization’s mission to protect Jews has — and has not — evolved to meet the new challenge. Stream anywhere you get your podcasts.
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The Israel Police announced on Sunday that seven people were arrested over the weekend on suspicion of desecrating Christian and Muslim holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. The suspects were all released under restrictive conditions after officers questioned them on suspicion of conduct that could harm public safety. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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What Matters Now: Join Yossi Klein Halevi, The Hartman Institute senior fellow, writer and thinker, for a probing conversation about Jewish extremism. Klein Halevi is the author of the 1995 "Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist," based on his time spent as a disciple of far-right racist firebrand Meir Kahane. He is uniquely poised to delve into the psyche of the violent fringe terrorizing West Bank Palestinian and shaking members of the settler movement. Stream everywhere you get your podcasts.
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What Matters Now: Author Yossi Klein Halevi discusses why Jewish extremism is so seductive and dangerous. Klein Halevi is the author of the 1995 “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist,” based on his time spent as a disciple of far-right racist firebrand Meir Kahane. He is uniquely poised to delve into the psyche of the violent fringe terrorizing West Bank Palestinian and shaking members of the settler movement. Stream anywhere you get your podcasts.
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Decades after one of Eastern Europe’s most important synagogues was destroyed under Nazi and Soviet rule, archaeologists have uncovered the central dais, or bimah, of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania. Excavators were able to access the site for the first time after a Soviet-era building that stood over it was destroyed about eight months ago, excavation co-director Jon Seligman of the Israel Antiquities Authority told The Times of Israel. The synagogue, which served as the center of the city’s 60,000-strong Jewish community before the Holocaust, was ransacked by the Nazis in 1941 and then destroyed under the Soviet regime in 1957, he said. Read more:
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Over a hundred radical pro-settlement Israelis, accompanied by Economy Minister Nir Barkat, of Likud, breached an IDF checkpoint to enter a closed military zone around the Gaza Strip in a bid to enter the Palestinian enclave. The demonstrators intended to cross into Gaza with the goal of resettling the territory and reestablishing Israel’s Gush Katif settlement bloc there. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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What Matters Now: Join Yossi Klein Halevi, The Hartman Institute senior fellow, writer and thinker, for a probing conversation about Jewish extremism. Klein Halevi is the author of the 1995 “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist,” based on his time spent as a disciple of far-right racist firebrand Meir Kahane. He is uniquely poised to delve into the psyche of the violent fringe terrorizing West Bank Palestinian and shaking members of the settler movement. Stream everywhere you get your podcasts. #Israel #Jewish #podcast #timesofisrael
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WATCH: Palestinian affairs correspondent Nurit Yohanan reporting from Qusra, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, where settlers established an outpost at the entrance to two Palestinian houses. The settler activists’ tent at the site was dismantled Wednesday morning following clashes, but several settlers remained there. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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A routine salvage excavation ahead of the construction of a new bus terminal in Ramat Gan revealed a surprising find: an industrial and commercial complex dating back some 1,300 years. Digging for several months in the parking lot of the city’s Winter Stadium, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) uncovered a network of straight, intersecting streets lined with shops, warehouses, large pottery kilns, and a series of industrial installations that once produced liquids on a considerable scale. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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📹 ToI Political Correspondent Tal Schneider טל שניידר تال شنايدر reports from the Likud primary. Polling stations opened across the country Monday morning as candidates jostled for a limited number of positions on the party slate for the October 27 national election. Some 140,000 party members are eligible to vote in the polls, which opened at 10 a.m. and will close at 9 p.m. One of the few parties to determine its electoral lineup via primary, Likud has long prided itself on its internal democratic process. However, changes to the system this year, pushed by Netanyahu, have shrunk the number of open spots on the roster and turned the vote into an unusually hotly contested race as party politicians jockey for a good enough showing to secure a likely Knesset seat. Read more on The Times of Israel.
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Extremist settlers attacked Palestinians in some 20 locations across the West Bank on Saturday night, a security source told The Times of Israel, with assailants torching homes, vehicles and other property. Earlier on Saturday, Yehuda Sherman, an 18-year-old settler, was killed when a Palestinian-owned pickup truck hit the ATV he and his brother were traveling in close to the illegal settlement outpost where they lived. No casualties were immediately reported from the fires, but the Palestinian Red Crescent said three people were injured in beatings by settlers in the village of Jalud, and six others were injured in beatings in villages in the Jenin area. A statement from the IDF spokesperson said reports were received of “Israeli citizens who burned buildings and property, and disturbed the peace in the area.” The statement said troops were working to restore order, and added that Israel’s security forces “condemn violence of any kind and will continue working to protect residents’ security and order in the area.” There were, however, no reports of arrests, which are highly rare in instances of settler violence. Attacks by extremist settlers have been taking place on a near-daily basis in recent weeks. Continue reading on The Times of Israel:
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A new kind of drone has been wreaking havoc in the north, and Israel was completely unprepared for it. Episode 2 of “Here’s The Thing” explores the drone problem changing modern warfare. What makes them different from traditional drones? And more importantly, why didn’t Israel see the threat coming?
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