ADRIAN J BOAS

There was a boy in my class at school whom I held in great admiration. He was well-liked and got top grades, and he was always...

When I grew up in Melbourne, one of the most popular sports was Australian Rules Football. For me, never a great sportsman, footy was...

During our excavation seasons at Montfort we generally rent a house or apartment in the village of Mi’ilya, located conveniently close to...

Returning home from six years of war service in the Australian Infantry, my father, an engineer by trade, found work on the Tarrago River...

History never exactly repeats itself, but it sometimes makes a reasonably good attempt at doing so. In the spring of 1945, the Russian...

I would not say that I am a highly organised or particularly tidy person. If I was to say that it would no doubt raise some eyebrows...

Was there any truth to it? I had my doubts when our guide, who during a recent visit to Australia took us on a tour of the Daintree...

During a brief stop-over at Hong Kong this week I found that the two things that made a particular impression on me on my last brief...

Selah Merrill, an American clergyman, consul in Jerusalem, part-time archaeologist and full-time anti-Semite, published a brief note in...

When many years ago I took part in a team examining the ceramic finds from a certain excavation, we held an internal competition, a joke...

When I first came to Israel a half century ago it was very different from today, and the city of Tel Aviv, while certainly not a...

Some memories are so ethereal that to recover them is like trying to grasp hold of vapour. My father once took my brothers and me on a...

When I was growing up in Melbourne there would occasionally appear on a fence or building façade a large sign informing anyone who might...

There is much to actually fear in the world, so it is remarkable how often we seek out things to frighten us. As children we delight in...

I used to pass daily by an abattoir on my way into Jerusalem. The cattle could be seen forlornly trudging single file along a narrow...

Since childhood I have been fascinated by nature, by creatures and plants. But, like most people I have a detestation for certain small...

Twice a week for two and a half decades I have driven the two-hour commute from my home in Jerusalem to the University in Haifa. Now that...

In the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Hozevim, today a High-Tech industrial area, there is a large stone building known as the Beck...

We have a broken vault, and we have graffiti. We have sardine tins, soft drink bottles from the 70s just beginning to develop a silvery...

I am not suggesting that the Germanic eagle, the Reichsadler, a powerful icon that came to be adopted by many states and nations in its...