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		<title>Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christian followers of a hermit named Mar Maroun have refused to abandon their faith. Sound familiar? While browsing the Internet for information on the Galilee town of Gush Halav, we found these words on a site linked to the Ministry of Tourism: “The Arab village of Gush Halav [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Between east and west: Jerusalem’s No-Man’s Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November of ’48, Moshe Dayan and his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah a-Tal marked up a map. They didn’t intend to divide the city in two One day in 1954, a patient leaning out of the window of Jerusalem’s French Hospital coughed so hard that her false teeth flew out of her mouth and landed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High and mighty: a trip to the Israel Air Force Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; From Avengers and Mirages and Spitfires to blind spots and crash landings, the aircraft on display tell the incredible tale of a young nation’s survival Shortly after Israel declared her independence, a column of Egyptian forces invaded Israel from the south and advanced towards Tel Aviv. Israel’s meager ground forces were unable to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting discovery in Jerusalem!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Second Temple Period Quarry and Iron Key discovered in Jerusalem! During excavations that took place while preparing a new highway in northern Jerusalem, archeologists discovered a huge quarry that dates back to the Second Temple period. And in the quarry, they found a large, unusual key that probably opened a public building from the times. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pre-state struggle remembered at the Underground Prisoners’ Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prison garb was brown for regular prisoners, black if you’d tried to escape, and red for those condemned to hang… This Jerusalem museum makes for a particularly appropriate visit around Independence Day One Friday evening in 1946, British guards dragged 16-year-old Benjamin Kimchi from his cell in Jerusalem’s Central Prison and lashed him 18 times. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masada, tragic fortress in the sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three brave years, the freedom fighters on this rocky plateau — known as the Zealots — managed to hold back 10,000 Roman troops armed with every contemporary siege weapon. Finally, a battering ram breached the wall. When you glance at it from the highway, Masada looks much like any other mountain in the Judean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A German colony in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persecuted and excommunicated, the Templers believed the Day of Judgment was near. Naturally, they headed for the Holy Land “It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Refaim.” (Isaiah 17:5) In 1868, a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip of the Month: Defenders’ Forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2002, a paratroop division commanded by Major Asaf Asolin was sent to Jenin within the framework of the Homat Magen campaign. Asolin was in the middle of advanced military studies, but when his replacement was killed in battle he immediately rejoined his men and took command. He fell in battle on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caves of Arbela: The ultimate hiding place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even Herod could not vanquish the guerrilla cave dwellers who lodged in these extremely steep cliffs atop a very deep valley Forty-five years after my first climb up Mount Arbel, I tried it again this week. How beautiful it is during this almost-spring season, filled with brilliantly red anemones, tall asphodels and the pink and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a walk on the wild side at Huleh Agamon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stroll this former swampland and spot the glossy ibis, the spur-winged plover, the curlew sandpiper, and the furry little coypus basking in the sun Until the beginning of this century, there were basically only two seasons in which Israelis could view the glossy ibis: spring, when the ibis migrated north, and autumn when they flew [...]]]></description>
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