Apple TV’s New Israeli Thriller ‘Losing Alice’ Is the anti-‘Fauda’
Ayelet Zurer and Lihi Kornowski shine in a Hitchcockian thriller that, unusually for an Israeli genre TV show, puts female characters front and center
Life & Culture
Ronnie Ellenblum, a Pioneering Historian on the Crusades and Climate Change
Colleagues and family agree: The Hebrew University professor who died this month was a mensch who loved Jerusalem as much as he loved his nonstop intellectual inquiry
How COVID Saved Us From Zara and H&M;'s Trap
Has the coronavirus pandemic dealt a mortal blow to fast fashion as we know it?
One of the World's Oldest Mosques Found in Tiberias, Israel
Beneath the city’s ancient mosque is actually an older one from the seventh century, when Judaism, Christianity and Islam lived side by side
Israelis Crack 2-million-year-old Mystery About Stone Tools
Chopping tools were the real original Swiss army knife of the archaic human set, says Prof. Ran Barkai, but nobody knew what they were used for – until now
Food
Israeli Chef Gets First Michelin Star for Parisian 'Shabour' Just Over a Year After Opening
Assaf Granit's eatery is the first Israeli kitchen in France to receive the coveted ranking
Science & Health
The Real Zombie Threat as the Arctic Thaws and Other Climate Briefs
This week's climate change briefs bring grim news for gray whales, those planning their vacation in 2100, and reveal the zombie threat we should be worried about
Television
I Was About to Watch a TV Show Called ‘The Grave’ – and Then My Dad Died
I can’t say I inherited my love of television from my father, though he did make sure we had a color TV set after he saw how the gorillas at the local zoo had one
Archaeology
Inscription to Jesus, Dedicated by the ‘Miserable Thomas', Found in Northern Israel
A piece of the door-frame of an early church was reused in the wall of a luxury house in the late Byzantine or early Islamic period and has now been found during road work
Travel
Israel Reopens Ben-Gurion Airport After Heavy Fog
Cargo flights diverted to Larnaca, Cyprus, but all air traffic has resumed
