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Opium dating back to 14th century BC found in ancient grave site in Israel

Opium traces have been discovered in Israel in vessels used in burial rituals by the ancient Canaanites, providing one of the world's earliest evidences of use of the drug.

Reuters

Palestinian schools in Jerusalem strike over Israel-imposed books

Hundreds of Palestinian schools strike in protest at Israeli efforts to censor Palestinian textbooks.

Al Jazeera

Settler High-rises Risk 'Palestinian Island' In Jerusalem

From his home in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, Palestinian Farid Salman enjoys a clear, unobstructed view of the city, but new residential tower blocs for Jewish settlers could box him in. Salman lives in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa where Israeli authorities recently granted pre-approval for 700 settler homes in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Palestinian man left beaten, bloodied by Israeli police

An amateur video shows a Palestinian man lying face down, bloody and unconscious, as an Israeli policeman kneels on his neck

The Independent UK

Mysterious Dead Sea Scroll thought to be lost to history turns up over 6,000 miles away

After an extensive search the fragment was eventually found in the US state of Montana, where its owner explained that his mother had received it as a gift while visiting Jerusalem in 1965

Daily Mirror

Israel Unveils ‘Extremely Rare’ Iron Age Papyrus Note

Israel's Antiquities Authority displayed Wednesday a rare papyrus note in ancient Hebrew dating back 2,700 years, recently brought back to Jerusalem after its chance discovery in the United States. The letter fragment, written in the Palaeo-Hebrew used during the First Temple era, constitutes four lines beginning "To Ishmael send", with…

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Israel acquires papyrus with Hebrew inscription from Montana

The Israel Antiquities Authority says it's acquired a previously unknown ancient papyrus bearing a Hebrew inscription dated to around 2,700 years ago that had long been in the possession of a Montana resident

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Man arrested after letting dog driving his car and posting video on social media

Police have shared the idiotic footage of the brazen motorist driving past a number of pedestrians and other cars with his dog at the wheel in Jerusalem, Israel

Daily Mirror

Israel Advances Plans for Another East Jerusalem Settlement

Israeli authorities on Monday advanced a plan to build nearly 500 homes in a new Jewish settlement in Jerusalem that rights groups say will further sever it from the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem and the southern West Bank. The planned Givat HaShaked settlement is part of a cluster of…

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Anti-empire, anti-fascist, pro-suffragist: the stunning secret life of Proms staple Jerusalem

Why is Jerusalem lumped in with the jingoism of Last Night of the Proms? William Blake wrote a heretical, anti-establishment anthem that was later gifted to the suffragists and used to rouse fighters in the Spanish civil war

The Guardian - UK

Israel extends detention of Palestinian French rights lawyer

Salah Hammouri, 37, has been held by Israel without trial or charge since March based on ‘secret evidence’.

Al Jazeera

In Tree of Life death penalty case, US prosecutors outline evidence of Bowers' history of hate ahead of 2023 trial

PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors this week gave notice to Robert Bowers' legal team that they will use his antisemitic vitriol on Gab.com at his trial as well as evidence from his phone, including a video of Jared Kushner in Jerusalem, images of Bowers making white supremacist gestures and antisemitic emails…

Tribune News Service

Two Palestinians Killed in West Bank Clashes

Two Palestinians were killed early Thursday in separate clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that Samer Khaled, 25, from Al-Ain camp in Nablus, suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the neck, and Yazan Afana, 26,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Healing with Humor, Palestinian Comedians Strike a Chord in Occupied Cities

Palestinian American Amer Zahr is on a mission to heal through humor. In 2015 he started bringing fellow Arab American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian cities including Nablus, Bethlehem and Ramallah. Seven years later, Zahr's now annual Palestine Comedy Festival is still going strong.…

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The Independent UK

Israel country guide: Everything you need to know before you go

From party capital Tel Aviv to Jerusalem’s spiritual Old City, here’s where to go and what to see

The Independent UK

Giant eye murals bear witness to Palestinians in Jerusalem

A group of artists has filled a Palestinian area of east Jerusalem with paintings of large, wide-open eyes

The Guardian - UK

Meet Liz Truss’s biggest fan – a man whose blind faith reveals a party increasingly driven by ideology

The end is nigh when Conservative stalwarts put a vision of a free-market new Jerusalem above winning elections, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Israel’s Premier Urges West to Reject Iran Nuclear Deal

Israel's prime minister urged President Joe Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks and that an agreement would reward Israel's enemies. Yair Lapid called the emerging agreement a “bad deal” and suggested that Biden has…

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The battle to remain Palestinian in Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter

A legal battle over the ownership of historic properties belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church has turned political.

The Independent UK

Judge rules against Ben & Jerry's in fight over Israel sales

A federal judge has rejected a request by Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's to block a plan by its corporate parent to have an intermediary sell its products in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank

Asharq Al-Awsat

Spiritual Leader of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Party Dies

Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the spiritual leader of Israel's largest ultra-Orthodox political party, died in hospital on Monday at the age of 91, his family said. Cohen, who headed the Council of Torah Sages, the highest body in the Shas party, had been at the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem when his…

The Independent UK

Polio in US, UK and Israel reveals rare risk of oral vaccine

The polio viruses recently found in the sewer systems of Jerusalem, New York and London were mutated versions of viruses that first originated in vaccines meant to stamp out the paralytic disease

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Advances New Settlement Plan in Jerusalem

Israel has advanced a new statement plan in Jerusalem after postponing it for several weeks due to US President Joe Biden’s recent visit to the region. Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality issued a tender to establish 434 settlement units on lands belonging to the Palestinian town of Sur Baher, southeast of Jerusalem.…

The Independent UK

Israel, Turkey to exchange ambassadors in diplomatic reset

Israel and Turkey will restore full diplomatic relations and dispatch ambassadors for the first time in years, the latest step in months of reconciliation between the two countries

The Independent UK

Brooklyn man among five Americans shot in Israel says it’s ‘the safest place in the world’

Crown Heights resident was visiting Jerusalem on birthright trip

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