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File photo: Members of the Saudi royal family carry the body of King Abdullah during his funeral in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 23, 2015.

43 Brothers Who Want to Be the King: How the Royal Saudi Rivalry Rattles the Mideast

Saudi Arabia, a kingdom in turmoil | Special project

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Imagining the Exodus, Edward Poynter

For You Were (Not) Slaves in Egypt

Illustration: Ministers and Knesset members in loin clothes carry pharaoh Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara.

Israel's Supreme Court Is Now in the Crosshairs

A sign warning people of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, two days after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency, April 11, 2019.

N.Y.C.’s Orthodox Jews' War Against Measles

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses AIPAC in Washington via satellite feed from Israel. Washington D.C. March 26, 2019

How to Push Back Against Netanyahu's Israel

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the the Arab Summit in Tunis, Tunisia, March 31, 2019.

The Price of Rewarding Hamas, Ignoring Abbas

Inside the secret world of Indonesia’s Jewish community

Inside Indonesia’s Jewish Community

The Dead Sea, from the Jordanian side

Saving Jordan but Killing Dead Sea

File photo: A monitor transitions from a still image to a video satellite feed from Israel of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing AIPAC in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019.

For Many U.S. Jews, Next Bibi Gov't Is End of the Line

Iran's streets flooded with water and mud, 2019.

Iran Floods Drown Regime

The Israeli Apartheid Week stand at Columbia University, April 2019.

War Breaks Out Among Israel Scholars

Jerusalem during the War of Independence in 1948. “Our situation grew more desperate by the day. Every day we sent calls for help to the city. Apparently, from so many calls for help they stopped believing us.”

Long-lost Account From a Doomed '48 Battle

File photo: Aviv Kochavi shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his inauguration as IDF chief of staff in Tel Aviv, January 15, 2019.

The Uphill Battle Awaiting New IDF Chief

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Inside the secret world of Indonesia’s Jewish community

Inside the Secret World of Indonesia’s Jewish Community

Earth Day 2019

Jack "Tato" Bigio, CEO and founder of UBQ, sitting by unsorted garbage that the company will convert into plastic and construction materials

Israeli Startup Finds Holy Grail of Garbage Disposal

Humor also sells misshapen products, like this sign reading “I’m kind of freaky for a cucumber, but let’s keep this between us”.

Kinky Cukes and Bent Cookies: French Anti-waste Stores Sell Damaged Food

Circus artists Diego Brailovsky (left), Carolina Crevecoeur (right) and Mariana Dince lead the show.

Bring in the Clowns: The Recycled Circus

Ecoserv employee dismantling hazardous e-waste

Rescuing Lebanon From Electronic Waste

Kwangpil Kim, CEO of Yeonjigonji, an alternative straw maker, holds the world’s first edible straws made of rice and tapioca in his office in Seoul, South Korea

Don't Sacrifice Straws: Use Edible Ones Made of Rice

Dolphins, Utila

Paving Roads With Plastic Bottles Extracted From the Sea

Workers sort garbage from more than 100 industries at Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA) Solid Waste Management Facility, at Doddathogur village, near Electronics City, in Bengaluru, India on March 02, 2019

I Got Garbage, the App: Making Cities Cleaner and Rag-pickers Better Off

Residents in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga take part in the implementation of the
city’s solid waste management program.

How San Fernando Is Turning Itself Into a Litter-free City

How garbage and plastic reach the Ciliwung

How to Stop Plastic Before It Reaches the Sea? Build Giant Barriers

Sean Van Doornum buys produce at Precycle, a package-free grocery store in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn

Proving That Packaging Is Unnecessary for Food

Children collect plastic water bottles among the garbage washed ashore as a result of a storm surge of typhoon Haima at the Manila Bay on October 20, 2016.

Opinion Ensuring the Earth Beats On

Chair named Anak ng Tupa ("Son of a Sheep") was made of 15 kilos of plastic and was dedicated to all sheep that died from plastic waste.

Junking Not in the Philippines: Making Furniture From Plastic

Israel

Israel Election 2019

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Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) with a couple of dragons in "Game of Thrones."

Why 'Game of Thrones' is the perfect gateway drug to CNN (but not Fox News)

Muqata’a on stage.

This is the godfather of Palestinian hip hop

Jerusalem during the War of Independence in 1948. “Our situation grew more desperate by the day. Every day we sent calls for help to the city. Apparently, from so many calls for help they stopped believing us.”

A long-lost account from the doomed '48 battle for Jerusalem's Old City

Fumio Sasaki, who owns just one towel, at home in Tokyo. “A little inconvenience can make us happier.”

I tidied my house, and it really did change my life

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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

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

Meet the Real King David

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

Why Do We Need Sleep? Israeli Scientists Solve the Mystery

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.

The Enlightment According to Jordan Peterson

Cyclone Numa

The Forecast: Stronger Hurricanes in the Mediterranean

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019.

With Poland, Netanyahu Discovers the Limits of Playing With History

ILLUSTRATION: Amos Oz

Between Zionism and Hellenism: Amos Oz on Secular Judaism

“Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel in Rome (c. 1508-1512).

In the Bigynnyng: A Brief History of the English Bible

Benny Gantz outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin during a protest by members of Israel's Druze community, January 14, 2019.

Benny Gantz, the General Coming to End the Netanyahu Era

Benny Morris and his wife Leah at their home in Srigim.

'Israel Will Decline, and Jews Will Be a Persecuted Minority. Those Who Can Will Flee to America'

An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua. “It waited in place, like a buoy in the ocean, until the ‘ship’ of the solar system ran into it.”

If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History

Iraqi and foreign mercenary members of a private security company, stand on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September, 2007.

Infamous Private Paramilitary Firm Blackwater Planning Comeback. First Stop: Syria

The Arous brochure for European tourists.

The Mossad Ran a Fake Diving Resort for Tourists in Sudan. This Is the Incredible Story Behind It

Top Secret Israeli Cyberattack Firm, Revealed

Discovery of a missing piece of Antikythera Mechanism on the Aegean sea floor

Missing Piece of World's Oldest Computer Found on Aegean Seabed

Consulate staff seen behind the entrance of the Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul. Oct. 17, 2018

The Grisly Hit-job on Khashoggi Is a Disaster for Israel

Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017

Ex-Mossad Chief: Russia Ran Trump for President

Relief of throne-bearing soldiers in their native clothing at the tomb of Xerxes I, demonstrating the satrapies under his rule: List of soldiers under Xerxes' rule: Persian, Median, Elamite, Parthian, Arian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Choresmian, Zarangian, Arachosian, Sattagydian, Gandharan, Hindush, Sakahaumavarga, Sakatigraxauda, Babyloan, Assyrian, Arab, Egyptian, Armenia, Cappadocian, Lydian, Ionian, Saka, Skudrian, anotehr Ionian tribe, Libyan and Ethiopian

2,500-year-old Persian Military Base Found in Israel

An evangelical woman from the U.S. picking grapes in the West Bank. Free volunteers is just one of the ways Christians help settlers

Revealed: The Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank