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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 just a rock. It was soft. Tar. Within a minute, the sticky residue that remained on my rubber-gloved ...

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 head of the organization of Jewish communities in Italy. While still a teen, Sereni became one of It...

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 is Kibbutz Yagur, on the slopes of Mount Carmel, southeast of Haifa; the time, the 1940s. This repo...

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 Israel. (Courtesy Orli Bach) Famous photo of 'Avengers' partisan group led by Abba Kovner. Kneeling in t...

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 ONE, is the latest in a series of similar studies that have detected evidence of other ancient tsunami...