I’m Glad My Son’s Murderers Have Not Been Found
Please, Israeli government, I beg you: Don’t go looking for my son’s killers. The ones who cruelly beat Koby and Yosef to death with rocks, the barbarians who attacked two eighth grade boys — my son and his friend — who were on a hike near our home in Israel. Please don’t find them. Don’t […]
Letter to St. James Church
Dr. Denic MacEoin wrote the following letter to clergy at the St. James Church in Piccadilly, London who have erected a replica of the separation barrier in Israel and incorrectly claim that the barrier surrounds Bethlehem. Dear Revs. Meader, Winkett and Valentine, The last time I was in your beautiful church was for a memorial […]
Overwhelming Number of Israelis Own a Bible, View Bible Education as Important
Even if they do not routinely open them, a recent poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Israelis own a bible and view bible education as an important part of the school curriculum. According to the Smith Research poll, commissioned by the Bible Lands Museum, 93% of respondents keep bibles in their homes, including 87% […]
2,000 Year Old Techelet Fabric Discovered in Israel
A rare find has been revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority this week. Scientists have confirmed that a 2,000 year old fabric was dyed using extract from the murex snail. Archaeologists in Israel have found thousands of pieces of fabric from the Roman period in the Judean Desert, the Negev, and the Arava region. However, […]
Operation Menashe: A Lost Tribe’s Journey Home to Zion
It was after 3:00 a.m. on Thursday of last week, in the small airport outside Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital, and the group of 38 travelers was exhausted. Young and old, these members of the Bnei Menashe community, which traces its descent to a lost tribe of Israel, had just arrived on a late-night flight from India. […]
Top 10 Israeli Innovations of 2013 (Videos)
There’s a reason Israel has been dubbed the “start-up nation,” as innovations coming out of the holy land are so numerous, it’s hard to narrow down the top ten. Israel ranked a close third in the US-Israel Innovation Index this year, an indicator of high-level innovation in cooperation with the US. From Google’s purchase of […]
BIN Readers Believe the U.S. Should Stop Spying on Israel
It was revealed several weeks ago through documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden that the United States has been actively spying on Israel for many years. As early as 2009, U.S. spies were monitoring email traffic from then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and future Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The U.S. is also shown to have […]
The Jordan Valley is Suddenly on Everyone’s Radar Screen – Is it Part of Israel or Isn’t it?
On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted in favor of a bill that would annex the Jordan Valley and place it under full Israeli sovereignty. Israel National News noted that this bill comes weeks after US Secretary of State John Kerry presented a plan to withdraw from Judea and Samaria altogether, and to temporarily […]
Mountain Bike Racing in Israel
This exhilarating mountain bike challenge attracted 1,500 bikers from around the world to Israel’s Dead Sea area. At the lowest point on earth, this Dead Sea race was the lowest-altitude mountain bike race ever!
Come on Aliyah!
The small nation of Israel absorbs immigrants from all over the world. In 1948, the Jewish population of Israel was a mere 600,000, while on the eve of 2013 it stood at virtually 6 million! This emotional video provides a review of the aliyah movement in numbers over the last sixty years.