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  • Sussiya

    In disputed Sussiya, old Ottoman law still casts a shadow over the land

    Ottoman law continues to influence court decisions, as the state neglects to act on land disputes.

  • Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along th

    Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

    Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

  • A BOLSHEVIK poster from 1920 shows Lenin sweeping away monarchs, clergy and capitalists. The Russian

    Was the Russian Revolution Jewish?

    A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

  • Hands off Syria poster

    No magic Syrian solution

    The background to Turkey’s current dilemmas with Damascus can be traced back to the ruins of the Ottoman Empire

    By BRUCE MADDY-WEITZMAN

  • Wedding 521

    His Story/Her Story: 16th-century gossip

    Rabbis living in the Ottoman Empire seemed to be extremely concerned about the moral fiber of their communities.

    By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED

  • Australian horsemen riding through Beersheba

    Int'l participants mark 93 years since Battle of Beersheba

    Australian ambassador says her country has special bond with Israeli city because of historic battle, similar climates and scarcity of water.

    By GREER FAY CASHMAN

  • TURKISH PRIME MINISTER Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    ‘Our minarets are our lances’

    Analysis: After the Gaza flotilla clash, it is clear that Israel and the West are confronting not just Iran but a resurgent Turkey.

    By DR. JÜRGEN BÜHLER

  • Beersheva Museum of Archeology

    From ‘mosque’ to museum

    A mosaic of rich Ottoman and British history tells Beersheba’s story

    By YOCHEVED MIRIAM RUSSO

  • ‘At a Crossroads,’ 2012

    It’s all relative

    Etty Lev’s exhibition of paintings ‘Unexpected Encounters’ records her early memories and acts as a sort of family album.

    By CARL HOFFMAN

  • Men on camels near Wadi Rum

    Max of Arabia

    A 100-year-old bestseller managed to predict some of the future.

    By SEAN DURNS

  • World War I

    WWI, in Palestine

    By October 1, 1918, Allied forces were in Damascus; Palestine was free of the 613-year-old Ottoman overlords.

    By STEVE SATTLER

  • Reuven Rivlin

    Grapevine: Happy birthday, Alice

    The German-born Shalvi spent much of her youth in England and graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in English literature.

    By GREER FAY CASHMAN

  • view of the west bank

    Time to apply Israeli law over Judea and Samaria

    An official government decision to adopt the Levy Report will require a significant struggle to change the rules of the game.

    By TZIPI HOTOVELY

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