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Mar. 3, 2021 Yossi, a 40-year-old from Atlit, has been unemployed for about a year, a victim of the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. But he has no complaints about COVID ruining his life; on the contrary, it’s enabled him to fulfill a dream. For employers, however, it’s been a nightmare. Until last March, Yossi worked in a packaging-goods factory, but orders dried up and they put him on unpaid leave. Later, the factory itself closed altogether, exactly a week after his wife gave bi...

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. Pieces of tar that washed up onto the beach at the Gador Nature Reserve in northern Israel on March 1, 2021. (Yossi Aharoni) Eleven days after tar began to wash up on Israel’s Mediterranean shore, apparently as a result of a marine oil spill, the Environmental Protection Ministry on Monday  called on companies specializing in mapping and cleaning up of the marine environment to help local authorities find ways of getting the tar off ha...

The economy is at a standstill, people are out of work and stuck home — and big Israel-support organizations are having a banner year. The Jewish National Fund raised a record $100.8 million last year in the United States, even as the pandemic canceled live fundraising events and JNF-sponsored trips to Israel. Courtesy of Facebook Finance Ministry Accountant General, Yali Rothenberg, addressing global Israel Bonds leadership and staff February 9 via Zoom. At the same time, State of Israel Bo...

Ten fabulous fortresses in Israel feature Ten fabulous fortresses in Israel With its palaces hanging off a cliff in the desert to knights’ halls and imposing castles, Israel is the place to imagine yourself in shining armor. By Naama Barak (February 25, 2021 / Israel21C) When you think of Israel, castles aren’t the first thing that comes to mind, which is a shame considering that the country boasts some truly magnificent ones. Some date back thousands of years, while others are more recent....

More than half of the Jewish state's Mediterranean coastline has been affected by the spill, which has caused damage to wildlife

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, A sticky, poisonous blob of tar (Revital Goldschmidt) The first little black blob in the sand I saw was about the size of a shekel. I reached down to poke it to determine whether it was tar or j...

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Enzo Chaim Sereni (1905-1944) was an Italian Zionist, co-founder of Kibbutz Givat Brenner, a celebrated intellectual, and a Jewish Brigade officer best known for his heroism in parachuting into Nazi-occupied Italy in World War II, where he was captured and executed in Dachau. Sereni’s wealthy assimilated Italian family was both culturally eminent and Jewishly involved; for example, his father was physician to the Italian king Victor Emanuel III and his uncle was ...

Follow Jan. 30, 2021 “Today one of the partisans who came from the Diaspora got drunk, and they tied up his legs and left him in some room. Some mean kids went over to him and started to taunt and curse him, and all the little kids gathered around and enjoyed the spectacle. M. and D. used a candle to illuminate the partisan comrade and wanted to see him, and I knocked the candle down and it went out. N., the kibbutz member, was there, too, and enjoyed it and didn’t stop them.” The setting...

907 shares Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” The Wedgwood arriving in Haifa, 1 July 1946. (Donated to the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa by Brigadier General Nir Maor/ Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0) Rabbi Abraham Klausner, hatless, center-left, with survivors in the displaced persons camp. (Courtesy Amos Klausner) Yehuda Arazi with David and Paula Ben-Gurion in Isra...

Follow Dec. 23, 2020 A mega-tsunami slammed into what is today Israel’s northern shore nearly 10,000 years ago, reaching a height of up 40 meters and traveling inland for kilometers, researchers have discovered. This massive wave would have wiped out prehistoric villages along a segment of the coast and might explain why archaeologists have found no evidence of habitation in this area for a span of millennia during the early Neolithic. The discovery, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ON...