Patch cultivation, or box fields, in the Judean Lowlands. Image is from the 2017 article “The Origin of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields” by Shimon Gibson and Rafael Lewis in the Journal of Landscape Ecology. (photo…
A mosaic revealed during the excavation of the “Burnt Church” in Hippos. (photos by Michael Eisenberg via Ashernet) A mosaic was revealed during the excavation of the “Burnt Church” in Hippos, which was built in the second half of the…
(photo from Ashernet) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin talks to Rabbi Eitan Shnerb at Hadassah Medical Centre in Ein Kerem on Aug 26. On the right is Shnerb’s son, Dvir, 19, who was also seriously wounded in a bomb blast near…
A participant in Playing Fair, Leading Peace in Jaffa. (photo from Peres Center) “I did not know I could play with Jews or talk to them. Now I want to and I can,” wrote an Arab middle school student whose…
(photos from Ashernet) A few years ago, the sight of a parrot in the Israeli sky was a rare event but invasive species have arrived, causing agricultural and other damage and threatening native biodiversity. Brought to the Middle East and…
Lea Gottlieb at work. (photo from Lea Gottlieb Archive via Design Museum Holon) Summertime … bathing suit season. As a child, I fondly remember our family trips to Israel. Among all the memories is the treat of a scrumptious falafel…
(photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet) This pre-Columbian cultural artifact at the University of Haifa is one of the mysterious art objects from Puerto Rico that were alleged to have been made by members of the Ten Lost Tribes.…
Mira Weigensberg and her husband, Oren Kessler, started Tekoa Farms in 1986. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) When Mira Weigensberg, who was born and raised in Montreal, and her husband, Oren Kessler, from Brooklyn, moved to Israel in 1979, she…
Dozens of undamaged pottery vessels have been discovered so far at the site. (photos from Israel Antiquities Authority via Ashernet) In 2015, archeologists began an excavation in the Judean Foothills, between Kiryat Gat and Lachish. In research conducted in a…
(photo from Haifa University via Ashernet) “Until now, there has not been any meaningful direct archeological evidence of workshops for the production of purple-coloured textiles from the Iron Age – the biblical period – not even in Tyre and Sidon…
