15 years ago, a freshman archaeology student stumbled on a fossilized jawbone on a dig in the Mt. Carmel region. Now, Israeli researchers have dated to it to between 177,000-194,000 years ago, which would make it the oldest human remains ever found outside of Africa

David Assaf, the Chair of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, remembers his student: ‘I was deeply fond of him and respected him’

After my valedictory speech at Tel Aviv University went viral, the Egyptian media painted me—an Egyptian—as a betrayer because I spoke of co-existence