86 Friday, September 29, 1918
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Best wishes for a happy and healthy
New Year to all our friends and relatives
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Ash
Archeology Proceeds
Aggressively in Israel
Best wishes for a happy, healthy
New Year to all our friends
and relptives
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Berch
Ilene and Joni
Judith and Bernard Feldman
wish their friends and relatives a
happy, healthy New Year
To all our family and friends a
very happy and healthy New Year
Mandy & Joel Fisher
Ari & Kevin
Mr. and Mrs. David lwrey
of Southfield, Mich.
wish their family and friends a
happy and healthy New Year"
David and Debbie Kalisher
from Margate, Fla.
wish their family and friends a
healthy and happy New Year
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wish their relatives and friends
the best of health and happiness
for the coming year
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Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kuczynski
and Family
extend best wishes to all their
family and friends for a year filled
with health and happiness
Mr. and Mrs. Bendet Lewkowicz
and Family
wish all their relatives and friends
a.healthy, happy & prosperous New Year
Best wishes for a happy and healthy
New Year to all our family and friends
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maslowsky
and Family
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IDA DIAMOND
wishes her family and
friends a,happy and
peaceful New Year
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wish their friends and relatives
a year of good health and happiness
MARV, JEFF,- DONNY & RANDY KAY
wish their friends and relatives
a happy, healthy New Year
Wishing all our friends and family
peace, health and happiness in the New Ye.
The Lefkofskys
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Bill, Sandy, Jodi, Steve & Eric
To all our friends we hold so dear
The ones far away and those right here
Good health and happiness the whole
year through. That's our New Year's wish for you
Arlene, Joe, Lori , and Robert Crystal
Mr. and Mrs. Gedale Elbaum and Family
extend their best wishes for a year
filled with happiness, good health
and peace to all their
friends and customers
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Joseph
and Sons
An Israeli archeologist stands amid one of the mas-
sive and eltorate bath systems in the Herodian
Palace in Wi Kelt — Jericho area. The bath system
pictured above is about 2,000 years old.
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By ROBERT D.
much later. Also, half a
KAPLAN
dozen jars have been dis-
World Zionist
covered and completely put
Press Service
together bearing the seal of
The events at Masada, Hebrew King Hezekiah,
where Jews chose mass who reigned at the time of
suicide rather than capture, the Prophet Isaiah. Dr.
derive their power from the David Ussishkin, head of
veracity given them by the Tel Aviv University's
archeological expedition of archeology department,
the mid-1960's, conducted plans -to concentrate on a
by Prof. Yigael Yadin (now Canaanite palace on the
Deputy Prime Minister of site.
Israel).
An excavation begun in
And at Gamla too; this
Year's investigators have 1973 has illuminated
shown that a story of cour- Jericho's beauties in the
age is history and not just late Second Temple period.
mythology. An on-going Significant discoveries in-
dig, being carried out by Dr. clude: the first Hasmonean
Shmaryahu Gutman of the palace ever unearthed, the
Israeli Department of An- oldest mikva yet found
tiquities, has uncovered the anywhere, an aqueduct sys-
remains of a wall battered tem, and the grandeur of the
by stones and iron ar- Herodian Palace (whose
rowheads, evoking the final existence at the spot was
massacre. Experts consider previously known), a large
the expedition the most im- Herodian swimming pool,,
portant Roman period dig ornate reception hall,
elaborate baths and hippod-
still in progress in Israel.
(race track) have been
rome
Driving along the north-
west shore of the Dead Sea cleared.
in the vicinity of the Ein
Swiss archeologist
Feshka beach area, one can Fanny Vitto has found
spot a few Nahal settle- the oldest Jewish tal-
ments where Israeli soldiers mudic text at the site of a
have started communal Byzantine era synagogue
farms, combining agricul- she is excavating in the
tural needs with those of de- Jordan Valley near Beit
fense.
She'an.
Archeologist Pessah
Meanwhile, back in the
Bar-Adon believes he has
countryside,
the combined
found the forerunner of
these Nahal posts in the results of a number of digs
which include Tel Arad and
same area. His continu
ing excavation has un- Tel Masos, suggest that the
covered a series of Dead Israelites led by Joshua
Sea miniforts that were conquered Palestine less
both military and ag- through military exploits,
ricultural outposts in the than through gradual set-
days of Hasmonean' tlement in empty areas ad-
Greek ruler John Hyr- jacent to large concentra-
tions of Canaanites. Recent
canus.
Few excavations have finds indicate that Bronze
gone so far in verifying the Age Cannanite cities were
Old Testament as the four- abandoned and not de-
year-old dig at Tel Lachish stroyed, while Iron Age Is-
near Kiryat Gat ,in central raelite sites are found
Israel. The site was the most mostly in the Negev and
important Judean town Galilee regions, where
after Jerusalem, destroyed Canaanite remains are
by Assyrian ruler Sen- sparse.
In addition to all this, one
nacherib in 701 BCE and by
Babylonian • King should realize that with
Nebuchadnezzar in 586 thousands of known ancient
sites, there are more of them
BCE.
Some of the finds have in- in Israel still to be dug than
cluded a Bronze Age there- are qualified ar-
Canaanite temple with the cheologists and financial
same floor plan as the First resources to carry out the
Temple of Solomon, built excavations. •
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Wishing all our friends and family
peace, health and happiness in
the New Year
Mini and Norman Levine
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Denny & Sheri Lisagor
Cottonwood Knoll, W. Bloomfield
wish their family and friends a
happy and healthy New Year
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wish their family and friends a
happy, healthy New Year
Wishing our family and friends a
very happy and healthy New Year
Tut and Anita Mentzel
Rovner Lachowitcher Aid Society
wishes all their members and friends
and Kal Israel a very happy and
healthy New Year
Abe'Saginaw,
Pres. Abe Young, Vice-Pres.
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To all our family and friends a
healthy and happy New Year
Saul & Bessie Rott and Family
Allan, Irene, Carol and Shelly Sparage
wish their family and friends a
happy, healthy & prosperous New Year and may
there be everlasting peice for our people
Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year to
all our relatives and friends
Esther & Lou Stybel
Peace, Good Health & Joy
The Williams
Richard, Marian, Judy,
Margie, Janet
Ardmore Shoe Repair
and the Sherberg Family
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