A protest by hundreds of fervently Orthodox Jews halted work on an Israeli highway. The protesters vandalized tractors and hurled insults at archaeologists attempting to remove ancient graves at the site. Artifacts found there earlier this week indicate that the burial ground contains Christian, not Jewish, graves.
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