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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Judah Hanasi

1,800-year-old grave marker for 'Yaakov the Convert' discovered at Beit She'arim. (Yevgeny Ostrovsky/Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 1, 2022, 2:04 pm
Do not open: Odd 1,800-year-old grave marker for Jacob the Convert found in Galilee
Ominously worded Greek-language inscription warns against opening the grave of a 60-year-old ‘proselyte’; marker stumbled upon during conservation work at Beit She’arim park
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Tzvika Tzuk, Israel Nature and Parks Authority's director of the department of archaeology, holds a tiny bronze bull. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
December 11, 2018, 7:21 pm
At Zippori pool where Judah Hanasi may have bathed, a rare tiny pagan bull found
Archaeologists believe they can connect a peculiar Talmudic story about the Sanhedrin head questioning the need for a fast day to a recently excavated site in a national park
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An emblem of a menorah carved in the stone, inside a structure at Beit She'arim National Park, an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
July 5, 2015, 5:21 pm
Ancient Jewish necropolis named World Heritage Site
UNESCO adds Beit She’arim’s Roman-era catacombs, where author of Mishnah is buried, to list of protected locales
By Stuart Winer
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