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Articles
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Tel Aviv on Track
Tracking history, City launches new railway park
By David E. Kaplan
The writer’s stroll in Tel Aviv’s new “Train Track Park” was as much a walk into the past as an embrace of the future, as he “tracks” earlier travelers from the Theodore Herzl and reflects on the words of the “father of modern Hebrew”, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who saw the laying of the original track as a symbol of “the victory of enlightenment”.
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Israel’s Earth Shot
Tiny in size – giant in efforts to protect the environment, Israel is leading by example
By Rolene Marks
With the quest to “Save Our Planet’ promoted by such global luminaries as Sir David Attenborough and the inspirational Earthshot Prize initiator, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, Israel standsin the vanguard to ensure that future generations inherit a healthier environment.
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A Lone Soldier on a Mission in Syrian Territory
During the Yom Kippur War
By Jonathan Davis
Strong leadership, top training, camaraderie and remaining calm under extreme life-threatening danger, is what saved this group of Israeli fighters surrounded by the enemy in the heat of battle 47 years ago this month. A personal insight by one of the young warriors at the time.
A Lone Soldier on a Mission in Syrian Territory
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