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A Bottomless Pit: A Rare Discovery – After 3,500 Years More than 100 Impressive and Intact Ancient Cultic Vessels were Found in a Rock-hollow next to the Tishbi (Yoqne’am) Junction

In an excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting along the route of the northern gas pipeline planned by the Israel Natural Gas Lines Company. A natural hollow in the bedrock that was exposed in archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to the installation of the northern gas pipeline by the Israel Natural [...]

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Forty-Five Years to the Execution of Eli Cohen, Israeli Spy in Syria

  Eli Cohen (born 26 December 1924 in Egypt, died 18 May 1965) was an Israeli spy. He was a newcomer to Israel, a Jewish immigrant from Egypt. His will to take part in Israeli society drove him far away to an incredibly successful espionage mission in Syria, until he was captured and executed. He [...]

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Tragedy and Mystery of INS Dakar

The Israeli submarine Dakar disappeared in January 1968 with all 69 crew members. It was found 32 years later in the Mediterranean close to Egypt shores and its remains brought to Israel and put on display in the Israeli Navy Museum in Haifa. Dakar in 1944 as the Royal Navy‘s HMS Totem (credit: Vikepdia) Ins [...]

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