Jan. 28, 2021
In June, Roni Katabi had just finished a municipal planning course and was looking for work. She interviewed for positions in Or Yehuda and Ramle, and even considered going farther south to Ashkelon or Sderot. But then the high-tech company where her partner works informed employees that they wouldn’t need to go back into the office for the next several months, and all options became open. “One evening between the lockdowns we were sitting and drinking a beer on the Tel Aviv boardwalk and we suddenly said, ‘Why not Eilat?’” Katabi recalls.
“We were living in a small, old apartment in (the Tel Aviv suburb of) Givatayim, without a patio, without windows, without enough light, and we were paying 4,500 shekels a month before bills. Our first instinct was to say, ‘What high-tech industry does Eilat have?’ and blame the beer for the crazy idea. A week later, we realized that the thought still excited us, and that the pressure in central Israel was only getti
A new bee species is discovered in Israel
Amidst decreasing global bee populations, new finding provides optimism for pollination and bee habitat conservation.
January 10, 2021, 10:17 am
The newly found Lasioglossum dorchini bees – female on left, male on right. Photo by Alain Pauly/Belgian Journal of Entomology
The species was named
Lasioglossum dorchini in tribute to the Israeli bee researcher Achik Dorchin of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University.
Image courtesy of the Belgian Journal of Entomology
This new type of bee is especially exciting because a decline in the world bee population is putting crop pollination in danger.
Traveling through time, darkness and silence to a Hasmonaean wonder
Outside an ancient fortress on the West Bank, an unassuming hole in the ground leads to a 12 meter high hall that was preserved for 2,000 years, from the time of the independent Jewish kingdom of Judea
Assaf Kamar |
Published: 12.18.20 , 19:14
The Artabba, a little known Hasmonaean-Herodion fortress hidden among West Bank olive trees, is still revealing its secrets - including a water cistern used two millennia ago.
The fortress was discovered by Palestinian farmers who stumbled upon its ancient wall and cleared a steep yet accessible road to the site.
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(Photo: Meir Waksman)