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20 celebrities with unexpected connections to Israel, from Will Smith to J-Lo - ISRAEL21c

Bet you didn't know that Pamela Anderson hosted the Israeli 'Dancing with the Stars' or that Leonard Cohen sang for troops in the Yom Kippur War.

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Israel’s Memorial Day Starts With Moment of Silence, Western Wall Ceremony

Israeli visit a military cemetery before the beginning of a ceremony marking Israel’s Memorial Day, commemorating fallen soldiers of Israel’s …

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Elizaveta Sherstuk, director of a Ukrainian Jewish organization in the town of Sumy, who is one of 12 people chosen to light torches to mark the start of Independence Day, in an undated photograph. (Jewish Distribution Committee)

On March 8, after nearly two weeks of intense Russian bombing, a humanitarian “green corridor” was established in the Ukrainian city of Sumy, allowing the civilians trapped inside to flee to safety. But within just a few short hours, Russian forces violated the negotiated ceasefire, halting the evacuation.

Undeterred, Elizaveta Sherstuk, the head of Sumy’s Jewish community center, set to work to get the most vulnerable members of her community out.

“We managed to evacuate 150 people, mostly the elderly, women, and children. The distance would normally take us three-four hours. It took us seven hours because there was so much traffic. We were lucky that there was a Red Cross column that accompanied it and we managed to join them and security helped us leave the town,” Sherstuk told The Times of Israel through a translator.

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She helped get hundreds to safety in Ukraine; now she’ll light a torch in Jerusalem

Elizaveta Sherstuk was chosen to represent the Diaspora at Israel's main Independence Day ceremony. 'This is the acknowledgment of the importance of what we do'

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What You Should Know About Yom HaZikaron – Israel’s Memorial Day | United with Israel

Israel pays tribute to the soldiers who fell defending their country.

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Leonard Cohen in the Sinai Desert, 1973I

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Leonard Cohen's Songs of the Yom Kippur War

In an appearance that has never quite been explained, the legendary singer arrived in the desert to perform for the troops during one of the bloodiest weeks of the battle

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Yodfat: The Masada You Don't Know About | Honest Reporting

In the autumn of 66 CE, Jews came together in the ancient city of Jerusalem and rebelled against the mighty Roman Empire. Little did they know that

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Hatikvah: The Lyrics, Meaning and History of Israel's National Anthem | Honest Reporting

Few words are as well-known to Jews around the world as the lyrics of Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem. Meaning “the hope,” the anthem echoes 2,000

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KKL-JNF Releases Images of Past IDF Independence Day Parades

The first IDF parade took place during the 1948 War of Independence, on July 27, 1948, on Allenby and Ben Yehuda Streets in Tel Aviv.

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Israel Rings in 74th Independence Day With Jerusalem Torch-Lighting Ceremony

Broadcast of Israel’s 74th Independence Day celebration at Mount Herzl. Photo: YouTube screenshot After a mournful day commemorating its fallen …

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Independence Day: Watch the torch-lighting ceremony

Following Remembrance Day, the annual torch lighting ceremony at Mount Herzl began on Wednesday night.

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74 reasons to love Israel

From Yom Kippur bike-riding to sea turtles, the meditative power of the Negev and good-looking men, Krembos, hummus, wine, and how simply everyone helps everyone else

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The Ebal Amulet – the oldest Israelite text ever found

It was as if I had been finding, and putting together the pieces of a large, difficult jigsaw puzzle – pieces that came from ancient history, archaeology, geography and biblical textual analysis.

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Other participants in the study included PhD student Roy Galili from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Prof. Gideon Avni, Dr. Tali Erickson-Gini and Dr. Yotam Tepper from the Antiquities Authority, Dr. Daniel Fox from Cambridge University and research student Nofar Shamir of the University of Haifa.

“The findings reflect the beginnings of globalization processes in the ancient world and the special importance of the Middle East and the desert expanses in particular, at the crossroads of East and West,” said the researchers.

Bar-Oz noted that the history of the trade route has been known from texts written by the ancient consumers of the products in the West, but nothing has been known about it from the perspective of those in the East, where no texts about the route have been found – until now.

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Ancient garbage reveals new perspective on famed Nabatean trade route

Spices and perfumes weren’t the only things being traded on the long-distance Incense Trade Route, say Israeli researchers.

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What to do and see on Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street - ISRAEL21c

Baubles, bagels, beer and so much more await you on this pedestrian-only thoroughfare in downtown Jerusalem.

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Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel

Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought

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Dazzling undersea array found off Tel Aviv to be protected as marine reserve

Addition of Palmachim Disturbance will double size of Israel's offshore nature reserves, conserving rare corals, squid, sharks, methane springs and other unique flora and fauna

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