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Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Emeritus Ruth Kark was named the 2025 Israel Prize laureate in the fi ...

I like to imagine someone swimming in the Gulf of Mexico when Google unceremoniously renamed it to the Gulf of America. There ...