An extraordinary discovery was unearthed in Jerusalem, according to the excavation directors — Prof. Yuval Gadot of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures and Dr. Yiftah Shalev of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery includes an assemblage of ivory plaques from the First Temple period, among the few found anywhere in the world, and the first of their kind to be found in Jerusalem. The ivories, considered one of the costliest [...]

Shortly before the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, a prominent Jewish family, led by Robert Bing, fled their Paris home. Among the possessions they left behind was a l9th-century work by Gustave Courbet, the French realist painter. The Courbet was seized by the Nazis and, according to a handwritten note that accompanied the seized work, the painting was intended for the collection of Hermann Göring. After the war, a London art dealership acquired the [...]

A ceremony on April 19 in Warsaw marked the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The presidents of Israel, Germany and Poland gathered to commemorate the event. “I stand before you today and ask for your forgiveness for the crimes committed here by Germans,” President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany told a crowd of thousands. Since 1912, when an artist made a floral papercut, the daffodil has become the symbol of the rebellion. This [...]

On March 27, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs hosted an international conference, bringing together think-tank and policy center representatives from 30 Middle East and African states. Panelists and participants discussed the prospects for enlarging and enhancing the Abraham Accords, and the potential areas for Gulf-Africa-Israel partnerships in the fields of counterterrorism and national security, food and water security, and the environment. Photo courtesy Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Jury selection began on Monday, April 24 in USA v. Robert Bowers, the long-delayed trial of the gunman who is accused of killing 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue On Oct. 27, 2018. It was the deadliest antisemitic attack in United States history. The trial is expected to last three months.         Court watchers say the sole goal of the alleged shooter’s lead attorney, Judy Clarke, who has previously defended high-profile attackers [...]