The bespectacled man with two pens in his shirt pocket and a black skullcap atop grey hair points to his computer screen and explains an epic project spanning generations. Gabriel Birnbaum, 66, is a ...

Hebrew, to be sure, had never died. But the secular Hebrew in which the ancient Jews farmed, traded, governed and wrote poems had been reduced to a language of liturgy, ritual and scholarship. “To ...

Shin Bet chief David Zini met exiled Gaza chief in UAE ...