Gil ZoharMay 30, 20223 minA sapling from Anne Frank’s chestnut tree grows at Yad VashemJerusalem and its environs have many historic trees, including the grove of gnarled olives in the Garden of Gethsemane – under which...
Gil ZoharApr 6, 20223 minWill Eilat’s Ramon Airport revolutionize tourism in the Red Sea region?EILAT – With the Ramon Airport beginning service on October 28, officials hope that the state-of-the-art facility will boost tourism to...
Gil ZoharJan 2, 20224 minJordan’s National Gallery of Fine Arts exhibits antique photos of Jerusalem and the Levant showing tAMMAN, Jordan – While the media has depicted the Middle East as roiling in violence since last month’s decision by American President...
Guy Carmeli Sep 25, 20214 minCompetitive bicycle racing immigrant from Montreal helps Israel snag 2018 Giro d'Italia’s ‘Big SJERUSALEM – In Europe, the Giro d'Italia bicycle race ranks in status with baseball’s World Series. Since the beloved Italian sports...
Gil ZoharAug 25, 20214 minToronto developers build luxury compound for the ultra-Orthodox in J’lemJERUSALEM – Having recently acquired Toronto’s troubled 65-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower now being rebranded as The St....
Gil ZoharDec 9, 20214 min30,000 worshippers pack Hebron for Chayei Sarah“And the life of Sarah was 100 years and 20 years and seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died in Kiryat...
Gil ZoharMar 25, 20224 minThe mystery of the Kathisma – where the Virgin Mary sat down, and almost no one visitsAnd Joseph also went up from Galilee... unto ... Bethlehem... with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. - Luke 2: 4-5 Hidden...
Gil ZoharDec 25, 20216 minFrom Iznik to Jerusalem – and now in BeershevaBeersheva’s new Negev Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures opened its second exhibition last Monday (Dec. 14, 2015). Called “From...
Gil ZoharDec 18, 202112 minThe Holocaust that wasn’t How German generals and diplomats, and a future Pope saved the Jews of PalAs the centenary of World War I grinds its way across the calendar, a relentless anniversary of bloodbaths are being memorialized –...
Gil ZoharDec 11, 20214 minBethlehem sculptor fashions Judaica, as well as Christian and Muslim artIf the Nobel Prize offered a category for ecumenicalism in the plastic arts, Akram Anastas would likely be a candidate. The...
Gil ZoharNov 20, 20213 minBethlehem Icon Centre keeps alive an ancient artistic traditionTourists and pilgrims despairing about finding a genuine souvenir of their visit to the Holy Land that wasn’t mass-manufactured in China,...
Gil ZoharOct 9, 20216 minNazareth’s German military cemeteryMany Israeli tour guides tout that they take their clients to off the beaten path sites. But next to none visit Nazareth’s Deutscher...
Gil ZoharSep 1, 20215 minDays of Ticho is an eye-opener about life in Jerusalem during the Ottoman and Mandate erasMost historians writing about Jerusalem in the first half of the twentieth century focus on the city’s multifaceted political and...
Gil ZoharAug 8, 20215 minMonument to Israel’s first aviation crash 100 years agoThe centenary of the outbreak of World War I on August 4, 2021 passed this week. This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the first...
Gil ZoharAug 8, 20218 minIsrael’s classic cars keep on rollingInfamous for the condition of its roads, the Holy Land was hardly a promising destination for motorists at the beginning of the age of...
Gil ZoharAug 6, 20213 minWedding season underway as Kuwait- and Finland-born Jews tie the knotWith Tisha b’Av and the three-week period of mourning associated with the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem over, the summer’s...
Gil ZoharJul 18, 20223 minThe Old City’s landmark Tiferet Israel Synagogue to be rebuiltWhile a cornerstone laying ceremony was held recently for the rebuilding of the Old City of Jerusalem’s Tiferet Israel Synagogue –...
Guy Carmeli Apr 5, 20226 minNazis in Palestine 1933-1948 recounts the demise of the Palästina-DeutscheFor readers of The Jerusalem Report, the noun “diaspora” is inextricably linked to the adjective “Jewish”. But in the 19th and 20th...