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April 28, 2021

A 1,600-Year-Old Mosaic Unearthed in Northern Israel

With colorful, geometric patterns.

According to the Talmud, Rabbi Yoḥanan ben Zakkai convinced the Roman emperor to spare “Yavneh and its sages” before destroying Jerusalem in 70 CE. As a result, this city in the Galilee became for a time the major center of Jewish intellectual life. Archaeologists recently discovered a Byzantine-era mosaic there, JNS reports:

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