(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Palestine is not a country of earthquakes, as is shown by the fact that for more than ninety years there were no earthquakes in Palestine till now, writes the “Frankfurter Zeitung.” adding that the last earthquake in Palestine, was on January 1st, 1937, when about 4,000 people, mostly Jews, were killed in Safed and Tiberias. Jerusalem was not affected that time.
Yet earthquakes, the writer proceeds, were not unknown in Palestine in Biblical times, as is evident from the fact that the prophets and the pealmists likened every great political change in the life of the people to a shaking of the earth as in Isaiah XIIL, 12., and XXIV, 18, and Pealm XVIII, ?.
The first great earthquake in Palestine spoken of in the Bible was in the days of Uzziah, King of Judah, the memory of which must have remained for many years with the
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