07 Apr 2012 09:50 AM PDT
Dror Eydar..
Israel Hayom..
06 April ’12..

On the summit of the mountain, between Joshua’s altar and the spectacular view, a Canadian tourist approached and asked Professor Adam Zertal a question. Why, in light of these amazing findings, which no one has contradicted but many, many people continue to ignore, does the Israeli education system not make this site into a permanent location for studying Israel’s beginnings as a nation? Zertal looked at him with a serene smile that nevertheless betrayed inner struggle and answered, “That’s a good question. Go ask Bibi. Go ask [Education Minister] Gideon Saar.”

Indeed, 27 years since the sensational discovery of “Joshua’s altar” and approximately 20 years after it was made public, the world’s most important Biblical archaeological site still lies shrouded in darkness. How many Israelis know about it? How many of them have visited it? This site is the Holy Grail of Biblical archaeology, the most significant site to be discovered in centuries. But it is significant not only scientifically and archaeologically. Rather, Zertal claims and proves through his knowledge that in that place, we became a nation 3,200 years ago, shortly after the Israelite tribes entered Canaan.
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