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Prof. Judah Pearl, the father of the late journalist Daniel Pearl will light one of the memorial flames at the Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) ceremony in Jerusalem, the day before Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day).

Nautical archaeologists have claimed to discover the "monumental" conical stone pile built of large, natural, unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders, on the floor of the Sea of Galilee.  According to the nautical archaeologists, the cone shaped structure may have been built onshore and then submerged by the sea.

An archeological discovery is always exciting in Israel. Excavation for new roads seems to frequently exhume history. This time, however they struck it rich by finding a rare mikvah (ritual bath) dating back to the late Second Temple Period.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Prof. Alexander Levitzki of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the winner of their 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.

Israel has dedicated the annual Holocaust Memorial Day. Israelis across the country, including Holocaust survivors have gathered to commiserate the 6 million Jews that perished during the Holocaust, a tragedy that occurred 70 years ago. They have also marked the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II that resonates deeply in Israel to this day.

Amid the violence in the Middle East, there is always an act of heroism that overcomes all differences. An Israeli Jew who saved two Bedouin brothers from the fate of three other brothers, who nearly drowned last Thursday, was brought to light this week.

Natural gas from the Tamar field off Israel’s Mediterranean shores has begun flowing on Saturday, according to the head of one of the partners in the field.

Israel’s Jewish population has reached its 6 million mark during Passover, a symbolic sign of peaceful vengeance for the approximately same number of Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Thousands of worshipers have gathered at the Western Wall plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday to celebrate the traditional priestly blessing performed during the Passover festival.

A senior government official in the Ministry of Industry has called to fight unemployment by mandating equal employment opportunity for the handicapped and the disabled. People with physical and mental disabilities often face the problem of discrimination and have difficulties finding employment in Israel’s job sector.