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While the US is rocked by anti-racism protests, a situation exists in Jerusalem that is even more racist than the US before the civil rights movement. The water fountains on the Temple Mount were reserved for the exclusive use of Muslims while Jews were not permitted to drink at all. But thanks to a group of determined Jews, that situation is slowly changing. Following Israel’s capture of the Temple Mount in the 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli government handed day-to-day control of the area to the Muslim Waqf religious authorities, overseen by the Jordanian government. Israel retains security control of...

LUCAS Haynes can't read or write because chronic dyslexia tumbles the letters and jumbles his words. But the gifted primary school student is a genius at taming his wild cat's jungle habits. A cross between an Asian leopard and a domestic moggie, Lucas's rare bengal cat, Simha, is genetically driven to drink only running water. Worried his family was wasting water by leaving a tap running for their cat, eight-year-old Lucas set about solving the problem. He invented and built an infra-red water saver – a device that detects Simha approaching the bath and turns on the tap for him....