פרק 1 - דן בהט: ״הייתה לנו ההרגשה שאנחנו עוסקים בחרדת קודש״
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What stupid Briton is there who comes from Palestine or from the Jews to the Jews? What does he understand by this? What do they not know? They don't. Maybe we'll invite him on a tour of the Western Wall lamps. Dani, just behind our wall, behind the heart. The poem of the Jewish people. Pleasant listening. Professor Dan Batnam grew up in Tel Aviv, but he received his first degree in archaeology and history of the Land of Israel here in Jerusalem and has since been on his way to doctoral studies. He is a and has since been on his way to doctoral studies. He is a world-renowned lecturer and actually speaks only seven languages. eight. eight. So there was a reason to come here today. Professor Dan Bat, the archaeologist and the mustache. Thank you very much for coming here today. Thank you very much. So Professor Dan, we've known each other for enough years that I feel comfortable asking your permission to call you Danny. With joy. Before we dive into the story of the Western Wall lamps and the excavations and the specific story of the place. I'm really curious to go back to the beginning and ask you really curious to go back to the beginning and ask you what was the moment when you realized that you and archaeology were going to be an ongoing story? The truth is, it starts with my Bar Mitzvah. At the time, it was customary for every child in the class to have a bar mitzvah, and I was younger, so my bar mitzvah was not in the seventh grade, but in the eighth grade. I was born in Sukkot, really, at the beginning of the year, and there was a class, they would collect money and give a book as a gift, which would bring good luck. The book
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- 3:38second year. And with that friend I mentioned earlier, who was the head of the Zoology…
- 7:44Nomi Shemer to write a poem about Jerusalem. It really was like a commissioned song and…
- 11:58completely intact Crusader church in a mostly Muslim area. Then I saw that since the 1920s,…
- 16:11almost no serious damage. There are a few small spots because they mostly removed dirt and…
- 20:24and since then no one has come, and things have been going the way we wanted,…
- 25:54one piece of the stone from the first step of the Dome of the Rock. One…
- 30:08Our history of the Palestinians is a 3,000-year history of the Jews. Only since 1948, eight…
- 34:15in the story of the Western Wall tunnels is the opening of the exit from the…
- 38:32they wanted to provoke Muslims, it was in Ma'arot 29, and it all started with the…
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