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Israeli Sprinter Wins Gold Medal in European Under-23 Championship - Algemeiner.com Israeli Sprinter Wins Gold Medal in European Under-23 Championship, Narrowly Beating The Netherlands

Israeli sprinter Blessing Akwasi Afrifah won the gold medal in the men's 200 meter relay race at the 2023 European Athletics Under-23 Championships that recently concluded in Espoo, Finland. The 19-year-old athlete completed the race in Leppävaara stadium in 20.67 seconds. Raphael Bouju from The...
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The ancient gate..

An ancient gate—the earliest known in the Land of Israel—was discovered recently at Tell Erani, near the Kiryat Gat Industrial Zone. Over the past month, the Israel Antiquities Authority carried out an excavation funded by the Mekorot, the national water company, before laying down a major water pipe. In the excavation, a gate and part of a fortification system of the ancient city, dated to the Early Bronze (around 3300 BCE), were uncovered. These structures reflect the beginning of urbanization in the Land of Israel and the Southern Levant.

The earliest gate that was known to date was found in Tel Arad, an estimated 300 years later than the Tel Erani gate.

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The area of the Tel Erani dig. / Emil Algam, Israel Antiquities Authority




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5,500-Year-Old Gate Uncovered in Kiryat Gat

The earliest gate that was known to date was found in Tel Arad, an estimated 300 years later than the Tel Erani gate.
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The Jerusalem Post reports:


The remnants of a Second Temple era synagogue have been uncovered in Russia, according to a Tuesday archaeological news release.

The remains of a synagogue from the time of the Second Temple were discovered in the ancient Grecian city of Phanagoria, located in what is today Southwestern Russia between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

The finding marks the discovery of one of the world’s oldest synagogues and, according to analysis of fragments found at the site, it likely stood for over half a millennium after being constructed around the beginning of the first century BCE.
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Among the findings were the remains of several menorahs that were clearly depicting the menorah in the Temple.


There has been somewhat of a controversy in Jewish circles about whether the Temple menorah had rounded or straight branches. The Lubavitcher Rebbe, apparently based on a drawing by Maimonides, had insisted that the menorah had diagonal straight branches.




But there are numerous examples of depictions of the menorah that date from when the Temple existed, or shortly thereafter, and are - as far as I can tell - consistent in showing the menorah with rounded branches.

This Hasmonean coin dates from Second Temple times:




The Magdala Stone, discovered in a synagogue built while the Temple was still there, also makes no mistake as to its shape:



And, of course, the most famous depiction is in the Arch of Titus, celebrating the looting of the Temple.



Now this new discovery adds even more proof that the Temple menorah had rounded branches, based on artwork of people who lived while the Temple existed.

The earliest (possible) menorah I can find with straight branches comes from a piece of pottery discovered on the Temple Mount from Byzantine times, hundreds of years after the destruction:





With all due respect to Maimonides' picture and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the overwhelming evidence is that the menorah had rounded branches.

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The synagogue discovered in Russia helps prove the Temple Menorah branches were round

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