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A document written on two cuneiform tablets around the time of the patriarch Abraham, containing a law code in a style and language similar to parts…

The ninth-grade pupil from the North who was stabbed by another youth Sunday at Haifa’s Denya Center in an apparently unprovoked attack is in stable…

Rabbi Mordechai (Motti) Elon on Tuesday insisted he would keep silent in the face of allegations of inappropriate behavior made against him by a…

When Eric Aiken, 47, a caterer in Florida for many years, decided to make aliya with his family, he began to look for a new way to help the country.…

Although psoriasis - the skin disease that causes itchy red and scaly skin patches in some 200,000 Israelis - is not infectious, a third of the…

More than a thousand families from among those uprooted from 25 settlements in the framework of 2005's disengagement scheme have remained essentially…

The Health Ministry will run a "swine flu" phone information line with answers to questions on Wednesday and Thursday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. as a…

Closely connected with all of Israel's universities, the Marc Rich Foundation for Education, Culture and Welfare enjoys a special long-term…

Young, educated and well-off describes the average Israeli wine tourist, according to a study released by the University of Haifa's Center for…

Article in Issue 21, February 2, 2009 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. After decades of underrepresentation…

Three-quarters of parents of young athletes prefer that their child forego a school exam for an important match, a new study conducted at the…

Few among us would exchange places with Sderot entrepreneurs whose prospects of eking out even a meager living have sharply declined since the…

Kfar Saba is located in the heart of the Sharon region. It is a very old urban entity named after the ancient Capharsaba, an important settlement in…

Bolstering the sense of community and feeling of "coherence" - that life is significant and the world is a place that can be understood - could…

In the year that has elapsed since the end of the Second Lebanon War, nothing has been done to fortify hospitals in the North to withstand missile…

Even as temperatures began to drop on Sunday, the heat wave that has rocked Israel continued to wreak havoc. Electricity consumption in Israel…

Although the state comptroller highly praised the health system - especially hospital and Magen David Adom (MDA) staffers - for working above and…

Recent tensions between the Jewish Agency and the United Jewish Communities have shed a spotlight on what may be the most significant trend in Jewish…

The cabinet voted 15-6 on Sunday to cut NIS 600 million from the 2008 state budget, instead of the NIS 1.3 billion proposed by new Finance Minister…

The making of the world of chemistry is the model on which Professor Nava Ben-Zvi, president of the Hadassah College Jerusalem, has built her…