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To The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO)

One of the many sites UNESCO wants to officially recognize as a Mosque. A painting of Rachel’s Tomb as it looked from the late 1800s to the 1990s. The brick cube with the dome was constructed around 1620 by the Ottomans; the white extension was added in 1860 by Sir Moses Montefiore. Yoram : “Personally I find this UNESCO deceleration particularly disdainful. The Temple mount has already been dug-up and the soil ravaged and its historic contents “dumped”. The Palestinian/Arab/Muslim world already declares as bogus the Jewish claim of there having been a Jewish nation here.That is the fundamental basis of the conflict! I wonder where Jesus went to turn over the tables of the money lenders, where was Bethlehem, where was Nazareth? Steve: The time has come to end this insidious behavior of the UN members to de-legitimize Israel and its Jewish heritage by eradicating any semblance of our archeological and historical past. We strongly urge you to sign this petition today.

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Jews, Arabs Work Together to Save Hevron’s Olive Trees

Working together Tel Hevron

In spite of all the media attention regarding hostility between Jews and Arabs in Hevron a group of Jews and Arabs are working together to save Olive trees over 2000 years old from a parasitic plant known as divkon hazayit at Tel Hevron.

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The Big Lie: The Muslims, Jerusalem and Archaeology, Part Two

This article first appeared at aish.com and is the original source of the material. I want to personally thank the wonderful people at aish.com for giving us permission to reprint this important two part article by Rabbi Leibel Reznick.

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The Big Lie: Moslems, Jerusalem and Archaeology, Part 1

This article first appeared at aish.com and is the original source of the material. I want to personally thank the wonderful people at aish.com for giving us permission to reprint this important two part article by Rabbi Leibel Reznick.

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Revealing History in the Debris

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Sifting the discarded rubble from beneath the Temple Mount Yoram and tour guide Shmuel Browns take a tour of the area.

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Archaeology in Israel: The Find of the Decade!

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Gila was born in Brooklyn and raised in Chicago.  She earned her BSc in Ann Arbor and continued in Assyriology first in Chicago and after making aliya in 1968, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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