Prof Yehuda Elitzur of the Tel Aviv University had some disappointing news for the Israeli forces on the west bank of the Suez Canal. This area is unofficially referred to by the soldiers as “Eretz Goshen” -that part of Egypt where the ancient Israelites were dwelling while in Egypt, According to Elitzur, this area cannot be the ancient Goshen region because that area was, according to the Bible, a fertile area while the west bank now held by Israelis has only recently become fertile. Hence, the deduction of the scholar is the Goshen lies some 35 miles west or northwest.
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