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Post-Script | Village Mail

Itamar Atzmon

In the early Zionist villages, postal services were under European auspices but had their own unique flavor – until the Turks cracked down The first Jewish agricultural colonies were established in the Holy Land in...

Coins and StampsColumnsIssue 26 | May 2015Land of IsraelPre-state of Israel

Heads and Tales | The Hole in the Coin

Itamar Atzmon

The Jewish population was agog at the thought of exchanging their Ottoman and Egyptian currency for British Mandate coins stamped with Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic characters. The Arabs, on the other hand, were more inclined...

Coins and StampsColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Land of IsraelPre-state of Israel

Where Bar Kokhba meets Hadrian

Dov Kesselman

Back to the article Bar Kokhba – The Fighters’ Antique The coins from the Te’omim cave are part of the Israel Museum’s new permanent exhibit, featuring a copper statue of Hadrian and a triumphal arch...

AntiquityIssue 1 | April 2010Land of Israel

The Samaritan Stories

Zeev H. Ehrlich

Back to the article Sacrifice in Samaria – Samaritans Cuthites from the Tribe of Benjamin | The creed of the Holy Mountain | Similar but Different – the Samaritan Calendar | Matchmakers’ Night Cuthites from...

Issue 10 | April 2012Jewish CommunitiesLand of IsraelPost-1948Religions

Sacrifice in Samaria – Samaritans

Zeev H. Ehrlich

The paschal lambs are bleating on the road to Nablus. The community elders are decked out in white and the final preparations for the sacrifice on Mt. Gerizim are nearing completion. Is this what the...

ArticlesIssue 10 | April 2012Jewish CommunitiesLand of IsraelPesachPost-1948

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Tamar HaYardeni

The dream of discovering a wealth of natural resources beneath the soil of the land of Israel is as old as the state itself. What actually happened when this dream briefly came true and hope...

ColumnsHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 64 | March 2023Land of IsraelPost-1948

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Moshe Chaim Shapira

Very few people are aware that Gershon Salomon, the veteran activist of the Temple Mount Faithful, is the scion of an old Jerusalemite family of millers. The preservation folder of a simple-looking house in the...

19th centuryColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010Land of Israel

Births of a Nation – Jewish Birth Rate in Mandate Palestine

Lilach Rosenberg-Fridman

Thanks to its high birth rate, Israel is one of the West’s only growing societies. Under the British Mandate, however, the Zionist campaign for large Jewish families largely flopped. What factors outweighed the urgent demographic...

ArticlesIssue 70 | September 2024Land of IsraelPre-state of IsraelZionism

Dancing to Bar Yohai’s Tomb – Meron Pilgrimage

Dotan Goren

Over the centuries, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai’s grave on Mount Meron has drawn pilgrims in increasing numbers, peaking with both celebrations and controversy on the anniversary of his death. The pre-state procession of musicians and...

20th centuryArticlesHistoric Walks in IsraelIssue 64 | March 2023Lag B'OmerLand of Israel

Caesar’s Footprints

Henry Goldblum

Back to the article That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar In the second half of the first century BCE, Judea played host to some of the ancient world’s greatest celebrities. Cleopatra and Mark Antony left...

AntiquityGeneralsIssue 26 | May 2015Land of Israel

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

Henry Goldblum

Was the fate of Judea as a Roman province sealed from the moment Julius Caesar switched sides in the Hasmonean leadership struggle? Or could Herod’s brutal path to kingship still have been blocked? Either way,...

AntiquityArticlesGeneralsIssue 26 | May 2015Land of Israel

Middle East

Post-Script | Village Mail

Heads and Tales | The Hole in the Coin

Where Bar Kokhba meets Hadrian

The Samaritan Stories

Sacrifice in Samaria – Samaritans

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Births of a Nation – Jewish Birth Rate in Mandate Palestine

Dancing to Bar Yohai’s Tomb – Meron Pilgrimage

Caesar’s Footprints

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

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Post-Script | Village Mail

Heads and Tales | The Hole in the Coin

Where Bar Kokhba meets Hadrian

The Samaritan Stories

Sacrifice in Samaria – Samaritans

Tale of a Trail | Heletz

Preservation – Salomon’s Mill

Births of a Nation – Jewish Birth Rate in Mandate Palestine

Dancing to Bar Yohai’s Tomb – Meron Pilgrimage

Caesar’s Footprints

That Galilee Affair – Julius Caesar

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