Celebrate Israelâs 73rd anniversary with ISRAEL21c. Illustration via Shutterstock
(Israel21c) Â To celebrate Israelâs 73rd birthday on April 15, weâve brought together a list of 73 weird, wacky and remarkable things about this tiny country in the Middle East that you most likely donât know.
The oldest tree in Israel is a jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva on the road to Eilat, which is thought to be between 1,500 to 2,000 years old.
Scientists in Israel managed to grow fresh dates from sixth century seeds found at Masada and Qumran.
The Israel Postal service has a special Letters to God department, for all the letters arriving in Jerusalem from around the world addressed to God. They are opened and placed into the cracks of the Western Wall.
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Dec. 20, 2020
“A number of the prominent youth activists in the Tehiya movement went on to become judges, senior lawyers, academic, journalists and successful businesspeople. Among today’s well-known politicians are Naftali Bennett, Gideon Sa’ar and Zvi Hauser.” The quote is from the Hebrew-language Wikipedia entry for the defunct political party Tehiya. In short, Israel’s great New Hope (the name of Sa’ar’s new party) is – they are – alumni of Tehiya’s youth movement. Sa’ar, Hauser and Bennett – two parties, one strategy: to outflank Benjamin Netanyahu from the right.
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman proposed to Bennett, Sa’ar and Yair Lapid that they form an electoral alliance for the next general election. I don’t know about Lapid. A scalded cat should fear even cold water, no? But an alliance including Bennett (and Ayelet Shaked), Sa’ar (and Hauser, Yoaz Hendel and Yifat Shasha-Biton) and Lieberman – all of them victims of the