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jerusalem

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July 15th 2015
still tired but pressing on (so much to see) today we first went to Meresha a tell in the valley of Ajelon where the archioligists are digging and they show people through the digs, in this area they are mostly underground as the houses built above were mostly destroyed and the stones etc thrown into the cellars, we went down into one of these cellars and dug the floor and filled buckets for a ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more