The Feldman family came to celebrate their son Amit's Bar Mitzvah in the City of David National Park, and had an exciting experience in the Jerusalem winter
Many finds have been discovered in the City of David excavations, and they provide non-verbal testimony to the destruction of Jerusalem, both in the Babylonian period and in the Roman period. More than a thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, Jerusalem’s walls were breached again on the same date.
A Second Temple Period Ritual Bath Discovered in the City of David
A private ritual bath (mikveh) from the Second Temple period, was recently uncovered in the excavations north of the "Pilgrimage Road," alongside the main drainage channel from the Second Temple period conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David.
A new scientific study has managed to accurately date findings from the First Temple period that were discovered in the city of David
Among the conclusions of the research conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science is that already in the 10th century BCE – the days of King David – extensive activity was carried out in Jerusalem
