Israel Daily News – February 15, 2023

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1,600-year-old rare gold bead discovered in Jerusalem’s City of David

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The gold bead which is from the end of the Roman era and over 1,600 years old is an especially rare find.
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A building on the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David. / (photo credit: KOBY HARATI/CITY OF DAVID)

A unique bead made from pure gold was uncovered at the sifting project at the Archaeological Experience in the Emek Tzurim National Park, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday. It was dated to at least 1,600 years ago, which was the end of the Roman era in Israel.

The bead was found in dirt that was removed from a grandiose Roman structure discovered in the Pilgrimage Road Excavation. It was created using a unique technique that required delicate workmanship to affix tens of tiny balls together in the shape of a ring in order to create one small bead.

Gold items a rare find

The find holds distinctive importance due to the lack of gold items found in archaeological excavations and because beads of this style are not common, due to the unique and complex technique used to create them. The technique most probably originates from the region of Mesopotamia, where it was known from approximately 4500 years ago.

18-year-old Hallel Feidman from Bnei Ayish is the volunteer who found the gold bead. She is a National Service volunteer who is working at the sifting project. “I poured the pail onto the sieve and began to wash the material that was brought from the excavations in the City of David, ” Feidman says as she describes the moment she made the discovery. “And then I saw something shiny in the corner of the sieve, different, that I don’t normally see. I immediately approached the archaeologist and he confirmed that I found a gold bead. Everyone here was very excited. “

“Throughout all my years in archaeology, I have found gold perhaps once or twice, so to find gold jewelry, is something very very special,” said Dr. Amir Golani, an ancient jewelry expert at the Israel Antiquities Authority.

OVER 200,000 volunteers from all facets of society, both Israelis and foreigners, have taken part in sifting earth from the Temple Mount. This tedious task could not have been done without the help of a large number of people. This phenomenon of so many participants has no precedent in the history o (credit: TOMMY CHAMBERLIN)

He points out that the bead, which survived unscathed, is probably only a small part of a necklace or bracelet that included additional beads. “Whoever could afford a piece like this made from gold, was an affluent person, with means.”

Israel Daily News – February 12, 2023

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‘You Are Part of the Problem’: Model Bella Hadid Under Fire for Accusing Israel of ‘Massacring’ Palestinians

Shiryn Ghermezian

Bella Hadid. Photo: YouTube screenshot

Palestinian and Dutch model Bella Hadid is facing criticism for sharing a series of Instagram posts over the weekend where she ignored two deadly terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, in which a 14-year-old boy was among the victims, and instead claimed that Israel was slaughtering innocent Palestinian children and adults.

The same weekend that seven people were shot dead and three were wounded in a terrorist attack near a synagogue in east Jerusalem, Hadid shared a post on her Instagram Stories on Sunday about Palestinian 17-year-old Salah Muhammad Ali, who she said was allegedly “the fifth child and 20th Palestinian killed by Israeli soldiers this month alone.” She failed to mention that majority of those Palestinian victims were terrorists and that Salah was killed after wearing a mask and aiming what appeared to be a gun — which later was found to be fake — at Israeli forces during a clash between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in east Jerusalem.

Hadid also made no mention in her Instagram Story about the 13-year-old Palestinian boy who on Saturday morning opened fire in the City of David area of Jerusalem, wounding a father and son. Instead, she shared a series of posts about nine Palestinians who she claimed were “massacred” during an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. She did not mention that seven of the Palestinians were gunmen.

Photo: Instagram screenshot

“Bella Hadid as usual twists the facts about Israel and continues to spread hatred and incitement,” said Israeli Arab activist Yoseph Haddad in a video he shared on Twitter with his 71,000 followers, which was retweeted by Disturbed frontman David Draiman.

“She presents Israel as a state killing kids, even while the same child terrorist received a life-saving treatment and is still being treated in an Israeli hospital, even though he tried to murder Israeli civilians,” Haddad added. He said the “most outrageous” part about the model’s Instagram posts is that she ignored the fact that among those murdered in the east Jerusalem terrorist attack on Friday night was 14-year-old Asher Nathan, who was laid to rest on Sunday.

“The one who harms innocent children is not Israel, it is the Palestinians. And Bella Hadid — you are part of the problem. Understand? You are part of the problem,” said Haddad.

Israel’s military said its troops went into Jenin to arrest members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group that they suspected have carried out and are continuing to plan “multiple major terror attacks,” and ultimately shot several of them after they opened fire, Reuters reported. Islamic Jihad said two of its men died during the raid, Hamas claimed four of the killed gunmen were part of its terrorist organization, and another was claimed by an armed wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, Reuters added.

Hadid’s mother is Dutch-born former model Yolanda Hadid, her father is Nazareth-born Jordanian real estate magnate Mohamed Hadid and her sister is fellow model Gigi Hadid.

Bella, who is the new face of a Louis Vuitton campaign, has a history of making antisemitic and anti-Israel remarks. In an interview with Vogue magazine she accused Israel of “suppressing” Palestinians and in 2021, she participated in a pro-Palestinian rally that called for the destruction of Israel. The Israeli government’s official Twitter account later charged the model with advocating for the “elimination of the Jewish State.”

Photo: Instagram screenshot

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