Archaeologists say they have never before seen this type of a cremation tomb from the Hellenistic period.
Of the Jewish community leaders who said they had contemplated leaving, roughly two thirds said they would make aliyah, or immigrate to Israel.
The earring features a horned animal dating back to the early Hellenistic period.
Second century BCE relic dates to Judah Maccabee’s battles against ruler of Antiochus.
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