The 11th annual convention of the Israel Explorers Society has concluded at Tiv on near here. More than 1,000 amateur and professional archaeologists attended the sessions and visited the site of diggings at Hatzor, in Galilee, which are being carried out under the direction of Dr. Yigal Yadin, Israel’s most prominent archaeologist, who also presided at the convention.
Among the speakers was Israel President Itzhak Ben Zvi, who lectured on the history of the Druze. Shmarya Gutman, an amateur archeologist, lectured on his finds at Massada where he found the remains of a Jewish group which fled the Romans after Bar Kochba’s rebellion, nearly 2,000 years ago, and were besieged in mountain fastness by Roman legionaires. Dr. Yadin, reporting on the Hatzor diggings, said that they confirmed that Hatzor was, in its time, one of the most important Middle East cities, with a population of 40,000 to 50,000.
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