Six Day War breaks out, this time on Twitter: Over six days in June, the Israeli army will reenact the 1967 war with minute-by-minute updates from the front on its Twitter page.
A new Israeli film debunks the myth that Nazis made soap from the bodies of Jews. The legend was apparently spread by guards as psychological torture of Jewish inmates, according to the film ‘Soaps’ by director Eyal Balas.
A new Palestinian prime minister was appointed Sunday: Rami Hamdallah, a 54-year-old linguistics professor and president of An-Najah National University. Given the severe economic crisis in the Palestinian Authority, is he on a suicide mission?
Google technology has shed new light on the Dead Sea Scrolls: A website featuring ultra-high resolution photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls has allowed experts to see faded and hidden letters that led to a different reading of a passage from Genesis that was used to justify slavery. Read more.
In Turkey, thousands of protesters clash with riot police for second day in fiercest anti-government demonstrations for years.
Meet Mehdi Hasan, Britain’s go-to guy for all things Islam: One of only a tiny handful of visible Muslims in British national media, the political commentator juggles pragmatism and nuance with an obligation to articulate his community’s concerns. Read more.
Alice Walker, the renowned author of “The Color Purple,” has published an open letter urging singer Alicia Keys to cancel her scheduled July concert in Israel.
Walker, a proponent of the BDS campaign, called on Keys to boycott Israel and visit Gaza instead. Read more.
An Italian university has found what it claims to be the oldest complete Torah scroll known to exist, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The scroll was previously believed to be no more than a few hundred years old, the report said. But recent carbon dating tests suggest it was written some 850 years ago, making it the oldest complete Torah ever found, Mauro Perani, the university’s Hebrew professor said.
