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Israel

Top UN Official Calls Jerusalem the Ancient Capital of Israel israeltoday.co.il

Irina Bokova, the director-general of UNESCO, which last year passed a motion denying the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, shocked many last week when she publicly affirmed the Jews’ historic connection to the Holy City.

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Isreal

Rare First Temple-era scroll exposes earliest Hebrew mention of Jerusalem jpost

Written in ancient Hebrew script, and dating back to the Kingdom of Judah during the 7th century BCE, the rare relic made of papyrus is the earliest extra-Biblical source to mention Jerusalem in Hebrew writing.

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Archeaology

Evidence unearthed of Jerusalem’s protective ‘Third Wall’ from Second Temple period jpost

Compelling evidence from the breaching of Jerusalem’s so-called “third wall” – which was said to surround the capital during the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE – may finally help to conclusively prove its existence.

The historian Josephus, a witness to the war, recorded numerous details about the third wall. In his telling, the wall was designed to protect the new quarter of the capital, then known as Beit Zeita, which extended beyond its boundaries, north of the two existing city walls.

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Got a crazy mashup of worldviews today! From bashing Ken Ham because public school students go to his museum, to denying that the Biblical Pharaoh was Egyptian, to Methodists lobbying for whatever-you-say-you-are bathrooms in North Carolina. Also Nelson Mandela has been "raised" in the West Bank with a cry of peace and death to Israel.

Drones

The Hover Camera will follow you around and record your entire life mashable v

The Hover Camera is also unlike drones in that it truly hovers after powering it on. You simply let go of it and it'll hover in the air at the altitude (up to 164 feet high) which you let it go at

Personal, small flying drones that can pick indivduals out of a crowd, follow them, and record what they are doing. What could go wrong? For a fuller story on the company, itself, see Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be a Robot Command Center in the Future v

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Archaeology

American Tourist Sneaks Into Ancient Jerusalem Cave for Private Treasure Hunt jewishpress

During his one-night stay, the tourist dug in search of the legendary treasure of Korah and his followers and other treasures purported to be hidden in the cave.

Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England’s oldest printed bible qmul.ac.uk

The annotations were discovered in England’s first printed Bible, published in 1535 by Henry VIII’s printer. It is one of just seven surviving copies, and is housed in Lambeth Palace Library, London. The secrets hidden in the Lambeth Library copy were revealed during research by Dr Eyal Poleg, a historian from Queen Mary University of London.

Palaeontology

Pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex could contain DNA unexplained-mysteries.com

I had to include this particular article simply because the site is called “unexplained mysteries”. Imagine...DNA...in a 68 million year old dino! How can that be!!! :D But don’t worry - the other news options were equally awestruck at the...mystery of it all.

Bomb Tech

DARPA Will Pay You to Build a Homemade Bomb sputniknews

In an effort to defend against improvised explosive attacks, the Pentagon’s research arm DARPA is looking to pay crafty hobbyists capable of turning household items into bombs.

Unnecessary Tech

Nike's First Power Lacing Shoes gizmodo

Ever since Back to the Future II, people have wanted shoes that tied themselves. Well, Nike has finally made power lacing shoes that tie themselves. In real life. As in, you’ll actually be able to buy them.

Video (lame, but gives you the idea)

Israel

President Rivlin Gets Emergency Briefing for Putin Meeting following Withdrawal Announcement jewishpress

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dramatic announcement on Monday that he is starting to withdraw his forces from Syria on Tuesday (today) has caught the world off guard, but particularly Israeli President Reuven Rivlin who is flying to Moscow for a state visit on Tuesday, and was scheduled for a Wednesday meeting with Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Ma’ariv reported.

North Korea

What We Know About the American Student Held in North Korea abcnews

Today, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea for allegedly attempting to steal a propaganda poster from his Pyongyang hotel room while on a visit to the country.

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