Israeli sculptor Drora Dominey was born at Kibbutz Merhavia. Many of her pieces focus on her experience of kibbutz life and on Israeli identity. Dominey, who teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, is the recipient of the Israel Education & Culture Minister’s Award (2007).
Born near Mumpf, Switzerland, Rachel (born Elisa-Rachel) Félix (1821–1858) was a prominent French actress. Her parents worked as peddlers, and, as a child, she performed music alongside her sister…
Engraved tridacna (clam) shells like this one from Arad seem to have been used as cosmetic containers in the Near East and Mediterranean worlds in the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE. This…
Hatred can never be good. (Spinoza, Ethics)
The spirit of politics has perhaps never before embraced people as tightly as today. There is an increase in social awareness. The class division of society…