Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national EMS organization, and Hatzolah Air, an American aviation organization that provides emergency medical air transport, have formed a partnership that will put MDA’s flight paramedics aboard Hatzolah Air and MDA Medevac helicopters to provide medical evacuations in Israel.
At least five people were killed and several others were injured in a shooting attack on a synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem on Friday evening.
The Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered elements of the city’s fortifications and an intriguing carved hand imprint as they dug along Sultan Suleiman Street, between the Damascus Gate and the Lions’ Gate.
A fine bronze coin, dating from the second year of the Bar Kochba Revolt (133 CE), was discovered in the Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological excavations carried out with the help of volunteers in four caves in the Nahal Darga Nature Reserve.
The Pool of Siloam, located at the southern end of the City of David, and within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, is an archaeological and historical site of national and worldwide importance. According to the Bible, the pool was first built in the 8th century BCE in the reign of King Hezekiah, some 2,700 years ago, as part of Jerusalem’s water system:
The story of the dreidel (spinning top for Hanukkah games) begins with the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation directed by Eliran Oren in 2020–2021 at the Neve Yamin site, near Kefar Saba in the Sharon region, prior to the construction of an industrial area.
Hundreds of thousands of families in Tel Aviv-Yafo are exposed to the light of 156 central Chanukah menorahs that illuminate the city.
A Chabad Chossid driving in Eretz Yisroel came under direct gunfire from a terrorist, and despite having his car shot up, walked away miraculously uninjured.
In recent days, a high level delegation from Misrad HaPnim (Interior Ministry) visited Chaim V’Chessed. The delegation was led by Mr. Erez Melamed, the recently installed manager of the Shlomzion Hamalka branch of Misrad HaPnim. Several new rules and changes were announced at the meeting.
Agency tasked with helping “Palestinian refugees”, condemns tunnel found underneath one of its schools, but makes no mention of Hamas.
A female soldier was seriously injured in a terrorist ramming attack in Samaria Tuesday morning. The terrorist was killed.
In the course of Border Police activity northwest of Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, a 33-year-old resident of Kiryat Shemona was spotted using a metal detector in a registered archaeological site. One find was especially interesting – an ancient coin of Antiochos IV, dated to 169–164 BCE. “Antiochos IV was designated ‘Epiphanes’, meaning ‘God Manifest”, but behind his back, his subjects called him ‘Epimanes’ – The Madman”.
Man who suffered critical injuries in Jerusalem bombing attack dies of his wounds, bringing death toll from attack to two.
Two of the victims injured in today’s terror bombings in Jerusalem have been identified as US citizens by the US Ambassador to Israel.
The Azerbaijani parliament on Friday made the historic decision to open an embassy in Israel. The embassy in Tel Aviv will be the first embassy in Israel of a country with a Shiite majority and a Shiite government.
Three people were killed and four more wounded in a stabbing attack at three separate locations in and around the Israeli city of Ariel in Samaria Tuesday morning.
In 2019, an excavation led by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Dr. Uzi Ad and Dr. Anna Eirich uncovered an ancient pottery kiln in Motza, near Jerusalem. Broken clay oil lamps with fingerprints, were found scattered all around the kiln dated it to the Byzantine period, about 1500 years ago.
