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This article reminds ourselves of what a miracle it is to have a Jewish country.

“I know not one good example in the world of a city that was split and ever worked.” Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said, during his recent trip to Washington. “There’s no other way than to keep Jerusalem a united city. The costs of dividing the city of Jerusalem along political lines are too great.”

250 members of the Bnei Menashe community of Northern India will start new lives in the Jewish State this summer. The Bnei Menashe trace their roots to the Biblical Jewish tribe of Menashe who were taken into captivity from the Land of Israel by the Assyrians more than 2,700 years ago.

Masa Israel expects over 1,000 college graduates from North America to join a unique program in Israel, providing students with crucial experience — and a closer relationship with Israel.

And this new video shows what visitors might see and hear while they are here.

The party’s founder, Sarhan Bader said that the tentatively named Israeli-Arab Nationalist Party will serve the majority of Arabs inside Israel who want to live here in peace with their Jewish cousins. It would even join a coalition government, which no Arab party has ever done.

So said Ron Evans, chief of the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, Canada, who is currently leading a mission of thirty young aboriginal leaders to Israel to study culture and society in the Jewish state.  Evans continued, “Israel's story demonstrates how an ancient people can maintain their heritage while embracing the modern world, and in so doing achieve self-determination.”

Archaeologists digging under Robinson’s arch have discovered a seal inscribed with a name similar to Israel’s current Prime Minister. The semi-precious stone seal was found in a location close to the foundations of King Solomon's Temple.

Happy Independence Day from Israel’s President Shimon Peres.

The Israel Air Force Museum at Hatzerim contains 150 aircraft including famous exhibits. Spitfires made from abandoned British spare parts; a MIG-21 flown by an Iraqi defector; the Boeing 707 used in the Entebbe rescue and the F-16 flown by Ilan Ramon, in the raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor.