Israeli Indecision on the Palestinian Issue Is a Sign of Strength, Not Weakness
What a new book about Israeli prime ministers gets wrong, and right, about today.
October 11, 2019
A 5,000-Year-Old Metropolis North of Tel Aviv
The region’s largest city in its day.
While there have been archaeological digs since the 1960s at the site of the ancient settlement of En Esur—located in the Sharon region north of Tel Aviv—a major excavation begun two years ago has revealed a city far larger than expected. Archaeologists say that in the 4th millennium BCE the city covered an area of some 160 acres and had a population of about 6,000, making it much greater in size than Jericho or Megiddo, heretofore thought the biggest cities in the southern Levant at the time. Yasemin Saplakoglu reports. (Photographs and video can be found at the link below.)
October 11, 2019
The Yom Kippur Attack at a German Synagogue Is Not an Isolated Event
A result of the failure of the authorities.
America’s Dangerous Abandonment of the Kurds, and the Five Years of Confusion That Led Up to It
Two very problematic allies.
The Israel Museum Features the Recovered Manuscripts of Two Middle Eastern Space Explorers, One Modern and One Mythical
Ilan Ramon and the book of Enoch.
A 5,000-Year-Old Metropolis North of Tel Aviv
The region’s largest city in its day.