Stories: Israel

Stories connected to Israel.

• One very old sentence is a wish against lice.A roughly 3,700-year-old Canaanite ivory comb bears a plea to remove lice from hair and beard. Its inscriptio…
• Her supporters wanted her to leave Guy. She crowned Guy king anyway.In 1186, nobles backing Sibylla's claim to Jerusalem's throne required her to set aside her husband Guy. She…
• AI predicts the next frame. The scenery and inventory may change.Released in 2024, Oasis is an unofficial Minecraft-like experiment driven by AI. It generates the next image…
• A legal word meant 'unowned'. Poets made it mean 'abandoned'.In Jewish law, hefker refers to ownerless property. In twentieth-century Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, writers a…
• He was expected to succeed the king. Then the king outlived him.In 12th-century Jerusalem, William of Montferrat was considered a likely successor to the ill King Baldwin IV…
• She thought her film was gone. It resurfaced 35 years later.A 1973 short film of singer Zeinab Shaath was among cultural materials seized by Israeli forces during the 19…
• He visited friends for three days. Then signed to play basketball there.American basketball player Barry Leibowitz stopped in Israel for a three-day visit with friends during a vaca…
• This wild herb is protected. People still gather it for food.Aromatic Thymbra spicata grows around the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia and can be used in zaatar sp…
• Nearby plants can look different, while faraway plants look alike.The succulent Petrosedum sediforme grows around the Mediterranean. In Spain's Sierra Nevada, plants growing s…