Ari Shavit’s “My Promised Land” is arguably the most important book to come out of Israel in the last twenty-five years (see my review from January 14, 2014 ...
This week marks the 70th anniversary of the single largest mass expulsion of Arabs from Palestine during the Jewish ethnic cleansing campaign of 1948-49, the infamous Lydda Death March, in which ...
The town of Lydda posed an early test of how the Israeli state would treat Palestinians. It is a legacy playing out today in violence between Jews and Arabs in Lod, as it’s now known. By Max Fisher On ...
This is the twenty-ninth entry in the Bible Junkies Online Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. This entry deals with Peter’s missionary travels to Lydda and Joppa and his powerful encounter with ...
On April 9, 1948, members of the underground Jewish terrorist group, the Irgun, or IZL, led by Menachem Begin, who was to become the Israeli prime minister in 1977, entered the peaceful Arab village ...
A huge fire, said to have been caused by short circuit, destroyed the main passenger terminal at Lydda Airport today but disrupted flights only briefly. No injuries were reported but damage was ...
Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land may well be the most commercially successful, yet also critically acclaimed book by an Israeli writer explaining his country’s complicated history to American readers. It ...
Cactus is in front of a stone wall. Stone buildings and a minaret are in the background. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I.Chronicles, viii:12.).--'And Lod, ...
Stone buildings and a minaret are in the background and cactus is in front of a stone wall in the foreground. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I. Chronicles, ...
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