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A new basketball court built as part of a bar mitzvah project by a New York boy was dedicated in Beersheba. The court was dedicated Sunday in the “Yud Alef” neighborhood of Beersheba, a neighborhood ...

The Ashdod Municipality announced the closure of all the city's beaches after beachgoers saw an approximately 5-meter (16 feet)-long shark at the Yud Alef Beach in the southern Israeli city. The shark ...

Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not demanding to start the Old Testament. In Hebrew the Bible begins with the second letter of the alphabet, Bet. In this folktale, ...

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at Ashdod’s Beach Yud-Alef on Friday afternoon when lifeguards spotted a large dorsal fin cutting through the waves. The municipality’s Coastal Department ...