Les progrès de la technologie mettent l’archéologie sous-marine en effervescence. La recherche d’épaves et de cités englouties n’a jamais été plus facile, grâce aux drones. Voici un tour d’horizon de découvertes récentes dans le domaine.
Israel s wealthiest are moving out of the city
From beach homes near Nahariya, to country estates in farming villages and homes in pastoral Ein Kerem, Covid-19 has pushed up demand for Israeli houses. Leaving the city for a house, as a second home, not the main residence, was something that very much developed over many years and was slowing down, because it involves a lot, such as maintenance and employing workers, says real estate agent Noam Dzialdow of the Neot Shiran agency for luxury homes. People would say why do I need this headache? Coronavirus reshuffled the deck within a month. People began buying even when movement was restricted.
When the Nazis came, not everyone divided neatly into âgoodâ neighbors and âbadâ
Lessons from my fatherâs German village about those who helped the Jews.
By Mimi SchwartzUpdated April 8, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
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The author s father, Arthur Loewengart, returning to Rexingen c. 1970.Loewengart family.
His letter came from South Australia, out of the blue. He wanted to thank me for my book about Christian and Jewish neighbors in the tiny German village of Rexingen, where my fatherâs family was from. âYour father was right,â his letter assured me, âwe all got along before Hitler.â
This man, Max Sayer, was 88 and had grown up five houses from where my fatherâs family had lived for generations. Maxâs Catholic family moved into their house in 1937, a few months after my uncle Julius, the last of our Jewish family to leave Nazi Germany, had sold our familyâs house and fled to America.
Israelis rally to clean tar spill and avert future crises
Israel’s largest environmental disaster brings out thousands of volunteers to clean beaches and brings renewed call for prevention and monitoring.
Photo of volunteers cleaning tar from Ga ’ash Beach by Dafna Ben Nun Photography
Why did 1,200 tons of sticky tar begin washing up on Israel’s Mediterranean beaches on the stormy day of February 17? The answer is not yet clear.
Experts say that no matter what caused Israel’s worst environmental disaster, it should have been contained as much as possible before contaminating 160 kilometers (nearly 100 miles) of Israel’s 190-kilometer seashore. They agree that Israel must formulate better ways of preventing, detecting and clearing oil spills.