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Archaeologists looking for evidence of the existence of biblical characters and events are succeeding. They can almost search with a bible in one hand and a trowel in the other!

A tiny clay seal impression inscribed in ancient Hebrew script, 'Belonging to the governor of the city' was found in ongoing excavations at Jerusalem’s Western Wall plaza. It has been dated to 700 BCE – i.e. 2,700 years old, when the First Temple stood in Jerusalem.

Quick action by Shlomi Bergman saved the life of Gadi Rimon who was shot by a terrorist. Gadi’s mother Tamari searched in vain to thank the savior of Gadi. A year later, Shlomi’s mother Anat visited Ashdod and discovered Tamari in her grocery store. Anat then realized they had met 22 years earlier. Please don’t miss this amazing story…..

Guatemala’s foreign minister Sandra Lovel not only hopes other countries will move their embassies to Jerusalem, but she indicated her government’s readiness to help them. “We as a country are willing to support other countries who want to follow Guatemala’s example,” she said.

At least 3,633 Jews from the USA and Canada immigrated to Israel this year, according to Aliya organization Nefesh B’Nefesh. 93 new immigrants arrived at Ben Gurion airport on 27 Dec, joining 103 who were already residing in Israel and made Aliya on the same day.

"Wherever you come from, whatever you look like, however you pray, Israel is your home. Israel is your birthright," PM Netanyahu told thousands of young Jews at an event celebrating 18th years of the Taglit-Birthright program. A record number of participants, 48,000, took part in the program in 2017.

A new synagogue has been inaugurated in the Western Wall tunnels - the result of 12 years of structural support, construction, and archeology work. The synagogue is located opposite the 'Great Stone' in the Western Wall tunnels, near the site of the Holy of Holies.

IDF combat veterans will receive full scholarships to help them prepare and complete their high school matriculation courses and exams. Israelis need to pass their matriculation exams before they can enter college.

How can Liron - an Israeli - be a perfect DNA match on Israeli charity Ezer Mitzion’s bone marrow donor database for Jonathan - a South African with leukemia?  Even Jonathan’s siblings aren’t a match.  When they meet this Pesach they may discover that their Litvak grandparents were not strangers at all.

After buying ice cream in Jerusalem, David and Tzipporah Speyer WhatsApp’d photos to their parents. Their mum then decided to buy ice cream for Israeli soldiers – 40 of them. Videos and photos were posted onto Facebook and went viral – and became a real “scoop” when they hit the Israeli media.