The World Best Wishes to all of our family, friends and customers for a new year filled with good health and much happiness. Ark May Lie In West Bank DOUGLAS DAVIS Special to The Jewish News A L'Shanah Tova 4, NLES R. SCHUBOT JEWELLERS / GEMOLOGISTS Across Coolidge from The Sonierset Collection 3001 West Big Beaver Road • Troy, MI 48084 • (248) 649-1122 • 800-SCHUBOT 4111111. --11 ral l.11111S110•111111liedallip T Has Your Teen Visited Israel in 1998? o help celebrate Israel's 50th Anniversary and Promote Teen Travel to Eretz Yisrael, the Detroit Jewish News would like to share your teen's special memories with our readers in our new Israel Album feature. Send us the following information plus a photograph of your teenager with name address and phone number printed on the back (school photo is fine, but not the tiny wallet size pictures). What We Need to Know: Name, age, address with zip code, phone number, school, city, grade, parents' first and last names, siblings' names and ages. Answer the following questions in 75 words or less: 1) What experience most influenced your ,feeling of being Jewish? How do you plan to become and stay in Detroit's Jewish community? Al Mail answers, information, and photo to: Israel Album c/o Detroit Jewish News 27676 Franklin Road Southfield, MI 48034 Q uestions .? Call (248)354-6060 and ask for the editorial department. 9/18 1998 70 Detroit Jewish News latter-day Indiana Jones believes he has found the burial site of the Ten Commandments — in a part of the West Bank that Israel has already handed over to the Palestinian Authority. Michael Sanders, 58, bases his theory on satellite images, coupled with a study of ancient Egyptian papyrus documents from the British Museum in London and other accounts. The British-born Sanders, a pub- lisher of classical university texts who now lives in Irvine, Calif., has spent more than 25 years researching bibli- cal history. Now he is planning to excavate the site, where he has detected the contours of an Egyptian temple that he believes may have been built over the burial site of the biblical Ark of the Covenant. , "There will be archeologists with us," he told the London Sunday Times, "but the search for the ark is bound to be more of a treasure hunt than a classical archeological dig." The Ark of the Covenant — and the Ten Commandments that were inscribed at Mount Sinai around 1250 BCE — disappeared from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem after a raid by an Egyptian king in the 10th century BCE. It was never recovered, and its location is one of the most enduring and fascinating biblical mysteries. Sanders believes the ark was seized by Egyptian King Shishak when Solomon's Temple was plundered in 925 BCE, the first in a series of Egyptian raids on Jerusalem. He says papyrus documents in the British Museum have identified an Egyptian temple at the southern end of the West Bank, beneath which the ark may have been buried. "This temple is referred to in the papyrus as a 'mysterious house in the land of Zahi,' " which Sanders said is a reference to the god Amuna Ra. In 1830, the American explorer Edward Robinson walked the route Douglas Davis writes for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.