History

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

Historic discovery: New species of ancient shark discovered in Kentucky cave

Graphic depicting a prehistoric shark with large, jagged teeth about to bite a small, large-eyed sea creature. Proposed reconstruction of the new to science species Macadens olsoni, discovered through fossil research at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Divers discover World War I cruiser HMS Nottingham in the North Sea

This week in Jewish history: Israel and Jordan end state of enmity

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein shake hands, as then-US president Bill Clinton applauds, at the peace treaty signing ceremony at the border between the two countries, in 1994.

Team behind Nazi Gold Train 'discovery' cite pseudoscientific radiesthesia as main tool

The team asserts a hidden tunnel contains three wagons of Nazi treasures.

JULY 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Entrance to Nazi complex "Riese", underground factories of Walim Part, Rzeczka. Walim, Lower Silesia, Poland.

Shipwreck of Japanese destroyer Teruzuki found off Guadalcanal

Discovery of the wreck was announced on July 12 by the Ocean Exploration Trust.

JULY 21, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Shipwreck of Japanese destroyer Teruzuki found off Guadalcanal.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 19, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER

THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

'The Illegals': Soviet infiltration, observation, and subversion into the West - review

Shortly after the 1917 October Revolution, Meir Abramovich Trilisser, the forerunner of the KGB, introduced the “illegals” as a weapon into an anti-Communist West

JULY 19, 2025ByCOLIN SHINDLER

ELENA VAVILOVA, photographed in the 1980s, was a colonel in the KGB First Chief Directorate Foreign Intelligence Service until 2010.

Inside the Tuam Dig: Archaeologists battle time to identify babies buried under St. Mary's

The two-year forensic dig, led by an 18-member international team, will probe the disused septic tank where the Bon Secours order is believed to have buried the children between 1925 and 1961.

JULY 15, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF