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Russian boy finds 3,000-year-old artifact in earth salvaged from Temple Mount
A rare stone artifact dating to the 10th-century BCE was found in Jerusalem by a 10-year-old volunteer.
30 Years flying under the radar: An interview with Ron Solomon
Once or twice a week, every week, I have the honor of having lunch with a close friend, Ron Solomon.
Pope Francis honored at Vatican by Bar-Ilan University
Pope Francis received the president of Bar-Ilan University at the Vatican and was honored with the Israeli school’s highest award.
By merging with Liberman, Netanyahu knocks out the left and casts his lot with the right
Political pundits long have debated who is the real Benjamin Netanyahu. Is he a pragmatist handcuffed by his right-wing support base and, until his father’s recent death, fealty to his father’s nationalist vision?
Druze professor appointed Israeli envoy to New Zealand
A Druze professor was appointed Israel’s chief diplomat in New Zealand.
An Israeli Win at the L.A. Times Book Prizes
Bar-Ilan University professor Oren Harman won a 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize last weekend for “The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness” (W.W. Norton and Co.), his biography of the tormented American evolutionary theorist who tried to crack the mystery of why humans can be altruistic and was devastated by the results. The book, which was also named by The New York Times as one of the 100 most notable books of 2010, traces previous attempts to discover why people perform selfless acts, in conflict with Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest.