-1111111111111111111.7 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 4, 1975 19 King David Saw Need for Defensible Israel Borders By JOEL GALLOB (Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.) The defense of Israel has been a primary source of concern for the Jewish peo- ple, not only since 1948 but for many thousands of years. Discoveries made by the Tel Aviv University team of archeologists and 'volunteer. students headed by Dr. Yohanon Aharoni, working since 1969 at Tel Beersheba, indicate that the planning and fortification of border cities in Eretz Israel began in the time of King David, according to a report received_ here by Rabbi Avraham Soltes, special as- . :.gistant to the president of the American Friends of Tel Aviv University. It appears that the city was defended by massive walls and a moat, was sur- rounded by a road within the walls, and provided wa- ter for itself through a so- phisticated system of rain- water channels leading to a well. The details of the city unearthed at the dig, a few miles outside of present-day Beersheba, suggest revision of archeological theories about city. planning and de- fense, as well as about bibli- cal history. time. The Solomonic city gate consisted of three rooms on either side of the entrance, and those at Beersheba and Dan had only two rooms. (While the size of the building was the same with either two or three rooms, it appears that the three-room gates — mentioned in Ezek- iel 20:10 — were less satis- factory, for after their de- struction, the two-room gate once again appear's.) Thus it seems that David, after winning his historic wars, concerned himself with securing the borders of his land. "It was from this time," the Tel Aviv Univer- sity professor believes, "that the classical biblical defini- tion of the borders of Eretz Israel derive — 'from Dan to Beersheba.' " The nature of these defen- ses. as well as the sophisti- cation of the city planning, have been clarified by the work at Tel Beersheba. Two layers of defenses around the city have been unearthed, 'dating from the 10th and ninth centuries BCE. their every-day lives. •••••••• • ♦ BINGO AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL SANS SOUCI HALL ON 9 MILE AT MIDDLEBELT EVERY SUNDAY 7:15 P.M. ....... B INGO CONGREGATION BETH ACHIM 21100 W. 12 MILE SOUTHFIELD WED., 7:30 P.M. Their order of construc- tion is significant, because it has shed new light on an old debate concerning the chronology of,,their usage. At Hazor, a 10th Century Solomonic casement wall was found, overlaid by a solid wall dating from the ninth Century. This led scholars to accept the idea that the casemate wall was Israelis Await Outcome of New Fiscal Policies From similarities in the structure of the uncovered city wall and defenses at Beersheba and at the an- TEL AVIV (JTA) — cient city of Dan, and the differences between them Thousands of Israeli wage and those at. Solomonic ci- earners, salaried employes, ties like Gezer, Megiddo businessmen and profes- and Hazor, Dr. Aharoni sionals were left in a state concludes that Beersheba of uncertainty as the old fis- and Dan were not of Solo- cal year ended without the monic origin, but rather settlement of any of the ma- were built in King David's jor fiscal matters that affect BINGO CONGREGATION 13 .11A1 DAVID EVERY THURS. 7:45 24350 SOUTHFIELD RD. SOUTHFIELD, MICH. Two city walls, each built of sun-dried bricks on a stone foundation, were uncovered, the ear- lier and 14rger one about 13 feet thick, both with brick insets and offsets. Houses attached to the lower wall, containing hand-burnished artifacts from the 10th Century, were found, thus enabling a relatively easy dating of the finds. After its de- struction, early in the ninth Century, a second, casemate wall (i.e., double wall with rooms between them) was built. The width of the two parallel walls in this later defense is identical with others found at such Israeli sites as Hazor and Samaria. But they are still in the Knesset Finance Committee undergoing preparation for final reading before the full Knesset. Treasury officials said that since July salaries are usually paid at the end of the month, the new tax regulations would be ap- plied provided the Knesset approves them by July 12. Otherwise they will not take effect until Septem- ber. Normally, the last day of June terminates existing labor agreements and cost- of-living allowances. But the labor agreements have not been officially extended or Although the tax reforms renewed and the COL scale greatly reduce the rate of has not been recalculated; taxation, virtually all ex- nor was their any decision emptions have been abol- as to what portion of the al- ished and loopholes closed. lowance for higher living costs will be tax free — if Meanwhile, Histadrut any. and the Treasury have agreed tentatiYely to con- The new tax reform mea- tinue existing labor con- sures were supposed to tracts on a day-to-day basis come into effect with the until the tax reforms are ap- start of the new fiscal year. proved. Flint Area News the older kind, and upon this belief other datings, such as that of the Megiddo strata, were based. The finds at Tel Beer- sheba'call for caution, since the order of construction there is reversed. This indi- cates that bbth types of walls were used throughout the United Monarchy pe- riod, with the choice of type evidently being dictated by specific local conditions. The city itself was built according to "a clearly pre- conceived overall plan, the first instance of true city planning in early Israel," ac- cording to Dr. Aharoni. Two streets led from the gate to the center of the city, in which several important buildings, including a tem- ple, stood. The dominant feature of the city was a circular street, starting from the gate, that surrounded the entire city. It had rows of buildings on both sides, and the remains of these that have been dug up re- veal the typical "four- room house" of the period. They have one broad room and three long ones, with a central divider consisting of a row of pillars. Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the city was its complex water sys- tem. In an area where droughts are frequent — .and the city was just north of where the Negev begins — it .is natural that the city's planners should plate a high priority on the provi- sion of water. Channels covered by stone slabs were built under the street surface; these were fed by rain water from plas- tered gutters in the walls of the houses in the area west . ..of the gate. The channels be- come larger as they ap- proach the gate, and after merging somewhat before there,. the single channel MONDAYS 7:30 P.M. BINGO CONG. BETH SHALOM 14001 WEST LINCOLN OAK PARK EVERY TIlES. 7:30 P.M. Annummemmowp _ EVERY MONDAY BINGO CONG. BNAI MOSHE 14390 W. 10 Mile Corner Church, Oak Park Every Monday 7:30 p.m. Flint Minister Tours Israel Rev. Roger Sharp of Flint's Woodside Church participated in the World Zionist Organization's mis- sion to Israel for Christian clergy and reporte•.his ob- servations to the Flint Jew- ish Community. 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