2+ week, 6+ day ago   (108+ words) Haaretz The vessel was found 500 meters underwater, over seven decades after it was was brought to Israel's coast by the Irgun militia loaded with weapons and fighters. Ben-Gurion saw it as a threat to the state's sovereignty and ordered it…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (146+ words) The Irgun brought the ship, loaded with weapons, to Israel's shores. In the days after the dismantling of the underground militias, Ben-Gurion viewed the Altalena as a threat to the state's sovereignty and ordered it to be fired upon. Three…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (132+ words) The vessel was found 500 meters underwater, 78 years after it was was brought to Israel's coast by the Irgun militia loaded with weapons and fighters. Ben-Gurion saw it as a threat to the state's sovereignty and ordered it to be fired…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (579+ words) Remains of Denisovans are found with their tools and food scraps, revealing the lifestyle of this enigmatic ancient human species Since the discovery of the Denisovan human species in Siberia in 2010, the world has been agog to know more about…...

4+ week, 14+ hour ago   (654+ words) Under the parking lot of the Winter Stadium in central Israel is a seventh-century complex with streets, shops or storerooms and workshops, but where's the city? Normally, shopping and manufacturing complexes are located in or on the outskirts of cities....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (448+ words) Researchers devise method to determine whether ancient clay artifacts are authentic by analyzing the signal left over millennia by the ambient 'noise' of Earth's magnetic field Our planet's magnetic field has many nifty uses, the main one being keeping us…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1225+ words) Lizards and snakes comprised almost a third of the Natufian diet in northern Israel 15,000 years ago, but that doesn't mean eating them was a choice The snake slithered frantically into the underbrush, but it was too slow. It had been…...