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Stories behind the signs

The history behind the names of Israeli streets.

|ByYEHUDIT COLLINS
A once-elegant public building on the corner of Herzl and Bialik streets, in the heart of the Hadar
THESE SEALS fell during the destruction of the Second Temple

Archeological finds, City of David bolster Jewish claim to J’lem

“If all that stuff is built on the notion that none of this ever happened, and then you pull a seal out of the ground with the names of the ministers straight out of the Bible one after the next."

|ByKATHERINE KEENAN