By Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post— Some 2,000 years ago, an individual scribe wrote at least eight of the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts, making him the most prolific scribe ever identified, a group of scholars have found out. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a corpus of some 25,000 fragments unearthed in caves on the shores of…
By Yair Altman, Israel Hayom— State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman announced Monday that he will launch a special review of the events leading to the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron. The tragedy saw 45 people killed and 150 wounded in a stampede that took place in a narrow passageway at the prayer compound, where over…
By Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel— The Israel Defense Forces declared itself coronavirus-free on Sunday as it recorded zero active cases of the disease among its ranks for the first time since the outbreak of the virus. The military reported its first coronavirus case on March 2, 2020, when a soldier who worked part-time…
By Eric Teitelman, House of David Ministries—- We read in Jeremiah: “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He shall recompense her” (Jeremiah 51:6, NKJV). There are varying theological opinions about this verse.…