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Archaeologists from The Hebrew University have found 3000-year-old artefacts that shed light on the design of the First Temple in Jerusalem. The models utilize important architectural designs written in the Torah that describe how the Temple should be built.

Renowned jeweller Henri Padani has passed away aged 92. He fled Antwerp with nothing when World War II began. Post WW2, he came to pre-State Tel Aviv working as a fruit picker and a barman. His pre-war jewellery design skills slowly allowed him to build a flourishing business and a home.

Celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, who was committed to fighting anti-Semitism and fought in Israel's War of Independence, has died age 84. Sassoon passed away on the eve of the Jewish minor festival of Lag B’Omer – the day when traditionally Jewish boys have their first haircut.

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.”