Chrono Israel Tours by Avi Abrams

02/09/2026

Aramaic, the language of the Talmud, the kaddish, and the ketuba, was once the living language of the Jewish People for over a thousand years.

How did Jews go from speaking ancient Hebrew to speaking Aramaic? Why did most Jews stop speaking Aramaic? How was one community (the Kurdish Jews) able to continue using it as their native language in everyday use until the 20th century?

Find out in my latest Aish article...

Aramaic, the language of the Talmud and the Kaddish, was supposed to have died out centuries ago. One community in the mountains of Kurdistan never got the memo.

26/05/2026

Just published a new article on Aish. This one is about Joseph Trumpeldor, a Zionist pioneer and war hero, most famous for defending Tel Hai (a Jewish town in the Upper Galilee) against Bedouin raiders. His famous last words "tov lamut be'ad artzeinu" – "it is good to die for our country" became the rallying cry of a generation.

But before he was the superhero we know him as, Joseph Trumpeldor served as a Jewish soldier, both under Russian and British command (at different times). In 1905 during the Ruso-Japanese war, he was taken captive and spent one year in a Japanese POW camp.

Rather than break, he decided to lead. In Takaishi, he built the foundations of Jewish communal life including lending institutions, vocational workshops, and cultural programming. It was in Japanese captivity that Trumpeldor built his own Zionist movement (among other Jewish POWs) and reconnected with his own Jewish identity.

If you're interested to learn more, click on the link below and read the article.

Joseph Trumpeldor spent a year in a Japanese POW camp and came out a Zionist legend.

19/05/2026

30/04/2026

Oldest seeds ever planted (after 2000 years) germinates into a date palm in Kibbutz Ketura near Eilat. We called it Methuselah, named after the oldest person in the Bible ever to live!

26/04/2026

2,000 year old date seeds discovered at Masada! Find out what happens next...

22/04/2026

Happy 78 to the State of Israel.
Happy 3,298 to the Land of Israel!
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15/04/2026

Most of us are aware that the entire Jewish People lived in the Land of Israel for more than a thousand years before being exiled or migrating to other parts of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, establishing long-standing Diaspora communities.

What many people don’t realize is that a significant population of Jews remained in the Holy Land throughout history, from Biblical times until the modern era. You can read about them in my newest article published on Aish.com

https://aish.com/the-jews-who-never-left-the-land-of-israel/

For 2,000 years, while Jews scattered across the globe, a small group never left the Land of Israel. Almost no one has heard of them.