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Israel's longest serving prime ministers: David Ben Gurion (L) and Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Netanyahu Surpasses Ben-Gurion. But What’s His Legacy?

Cross carved in stone found at el-Araj

Church of the Apostles Found?

Illustration. Women carrying a giant birth control pack.

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Members of the Brit Habiryonim Revisionist underground. Its aim was to get the country’s youth to see the light about nationalism.

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Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft, at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 12, 2019.

How Russian Missiles Shot Down Turkey's F-35 Jets

Liad Agmon and Omri Mendellevich pose for a photo at Dynamic Yield offices in Tel Aviv, June 23, 2019.

Israeli Startup Will Make McDonald’s Fast Food Faster

Illustration: Netanyahu blows Lieberman head like a balloon; Netanyahu and Barak exchange fire.

Lieberman Is Laying a Trap for Netanyahu

Conservative party leadership candidate Boris Johnson answers questions during a Conservative leadership hustings at ExCel Centre in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2019.

How to Deal With Racist Leaders Who 'Love' Jews

Archaeology workers standing beneath a shade on the outskirts of the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel, July 18, 2019.

The Biggest Challenge in Israeli Politics

The 1,300-year-old mosque discovered in Rahat.

One of the Earliest Rural Mosques Found in Israel

Bitcoin change in Tel Aviv

Bitcoin Is a Fraud. Let’s Hope It Stays That Way

Fox News host Tucker Carlson, left, and National Security Adviser John Bolton.

What the American Right Did While Trump Tweeted

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 16, 2019.

Trump’s 'Go Home' Invective Echoes Nazi Incitement

The Turkish drilling ship "Fatih" off the coast of Cyprus.

Turkey's Drilling Could Send Shock Waves Across Region

Ehud Barak speaking at a campaign rally in Tel Aviv for his Democratic Israel party on Wednesday.

Barak Looks Almost Desperate – for Good Reason

People holding up pictures of the victims of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 17, 2015.

Still Seeking Answers 25 Years After AMIA

U.S. President Donald Trump holding up a piece of paper with tweets about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, July 16, 2019.

Who Trump Is Really Wooing With His Tweets

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Palestine refugees initially displaced to Gaza board boats to Lebanon or Egypt, in 1949.

How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of Brutal 1948 Expulsion of Arabs

Mosaic depicting Jonah being swallowed by a fish, Huqoq synagogue.

Israel's Most Beautiful Mosaic Reveals Ancient Liberal Judaism

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is interviewed by Reuters at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2019

Jared Kushner's Plan for Palestine Is Even Crazier Than You Thought

A cyclist passes Hasidic Jews outside of a synagogue on Bedford Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Aug. 13, 2013.

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Fleeing Iran's Modesty Police, Lingerie Model Ends Up on Paris Streets

Smoke and fire following reported Syrian government forces' bombardment on the town of Khan Sheikhun, Idlib, June 6, 2019.

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Rabbis debating

Who Decided What Books the Hebrew Bible Would Contain?

An envelope that held a letter from Janina Iwanska to her father. The hidden message: “Five female Polish political inmates have escaped. We are preparing a new escape.”

Nazis Experimented on These Women. They Told the World, in Brilliant Code

Queen of the Skies: How El Al flight LY001 and the 747 made the Jewish world smaller

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Israel Defense Forces soldiers carrying the coffin of Sgt. Itamar Ilya, one of the members of the elite Shayetet naval commando unit who was killed in a raid in Lebanon on September 4, 1997.

Nasrallah Reveals New Details About Ambush, Killing of 12 Israeli Commandos

Palestinian teen Osama Hajajeh attempting to flee Israeli soldiers, Tuqu, West Bank, April 18, 2019.

Israeli Soldiers Shoot Bound, Blindfolded Palestinian Teen Trying to Flee

Sheshonq's name carved into a block of stone, possibly part of a victory stele, found in Megiddo, northern Israel

Move Over, Moses: A Pharaoh May Have Created the Ancient Kingdom of Israel

Cardinals in the Vatican.

Sex Parties, Drugs and Gay Escorts at the Pope's Residence: Undercover in the Vatican

Then Representative-elect Ilhan Omar attends a press conference in the capitol, Washington D.C., November 30, 2018.

Keep It Up, Ilhan Omar

Jordan Peterson. Has a simple explanation for his extraordinary popularity: In a culture that sanctifies victimhood, he proposes that people confront life’s inevitable pain unflinchingly.

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Jeroboam I praying to the false idols of the golden calves in the temples of Dan and Bethel, lower section of the lancet window of Solomon from under the main North Rose stained glass window, 1233, on the Northern side of the transept of Chartres Cathedral, Eure-et-Loir, France

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FILE Photo: A sloth sleeps while hanging from a tree.

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An electoral campaign poster bearing the portrait of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party. Tel Aviv, April 3, 2019

Netanyahu Deserves to Win the Election. And We Israelis Deserve Him