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January 22, 2024

A Soldier-Archaeologist Finds an Ancient Grinding Tool

Settlement always returned to the Western Negev.

A very large portion of the fighting force that the IDF has deployed is made up of reservists, who pursue a host of different careers in their civilian lives. For one such reservist, Lieutenant-Colonel Yair Amitsur, his nonmilitary training proved useful when he and a fellow reserve officer came across a large bowl-shaped item in the staging ground just outside Gaza, which he recognized as an ancient mortar. Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reports:

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