An archaeological expedition, under the leadership of Abraham Dotan, deputy director of the Israel Department of Antiquities, left for Sinai today. The expedition will search for the site of the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai and other evidence of the Israelites’ 40 years of wandering in the desert.
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