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Let the Stones Speak The earliest evidence of a grouping of iron blooms has been discovered in a shipwreck off the Carmel coast. A recent study announcing the discovery was published in NPJ Heritage. According to the researchers, the analysis of the ancient cargo "provides unique and unprecedented insight into early bloom production, handling and maritime transport during the Iron Age" -- around 2,600 years ago, the time of the biblical King Josiah. On today's program, host Brent Nagtegaal interviews lead author Prof. Tsilla Eshel of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa, about the discovery. Israeli...

The only evidence of collusion found in General Flynn’s phone calls was between the Obama administration and anti-Israel forces at the United Nations. BY BRENT NAGTEGAAL • JULY 2 One month before President Barack Obama left the White House, the United States infamously broke with its historic precedent of supporting Israel at the United Nations, an institution with systemic bias against the Jewish state. Collective applause erupted in the UN hall when U.S. Ambassador Samantha Powers raised her hand to allow passage of Resolution 2334, which called any Israeli settlement in the land occupied by Jordan before 1967 as illegal....

Jerusalem Early Wednesday morning, 10 rockets struck the United States Al-Asad base in western Iraq’s Anbar province in another direct attack against American forces in Iraq. Coalition troops raced into shelters to wait out the attack. During the barrage, an American contractor embedded with U.S. forces suffered from a heart attack and shortly thereafter died. This was the first death of an American citizen inside Iraq since Joe Biden took office. The rocket attack, at least the fourth by Iran-backed forces in just over two weeks, confirms that America is quickly losing power to deter Iran from attacking its forces...