Lod (now Ben-Gurion) Airport while under construction Photo: Wikimedia Commons We’d often like to think life was simpler in the 1950s. Israel was just a fledgling country in the midst of an enormous growth spurt and we were focused on building a great place to live. This video, which we got from Road 90, is [...]

Photo: Getty Images Israel has been an important commercial center for thousands of years (it didn’t all start with hi-tech), especially in ports like Yaffo. This weekend, a lifeguard found some pretty neat remnants of these early traders, some of whom, it seems, had some interesting superstitions. The AP has the whole story and discusses [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism Yesterday, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) named two Bahai shrines to the World Heritage List, which is designed to protect areas of natural and cultural heritage around the world. The two shrines, the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh in Acco and the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, are [...]