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Excavations in Israel are offering a rare window into Christian pilgrimage in the Byzantine era.

The excavations are part of a town’s expansion program for opening a new neighborhood for Rahat and suburban residents led by the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Bedouin in the Negev.

During excavations south of Rahat, remnants of an ancient Byzantine church were uncovered, with etchings of ships on its walls; 'While the ship is an ancient Christian symbol, these carvings likely illustrate the actual vessels that brought the pilgrims to the Holy Land,' say researchers

From the blog of Harriet Gimpel at The Times of Israel

'I have not lost sight of the fact that there is a legal proceeding against Netanyahu, and I do not take it lightly at all,' Israeli President Isaac Herzog said during the ceremony.

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Archaeologists in Israel recently uncovered a 1,200-year-old estate from the early Islamic era during an excavation in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat.

New discovery joins a second very early mosque dated to the 7th century, when Islam was just beginning to spread in the Holy Land

Findings sheds light on the beginnings of Islam in the southern Levant as it replaced the old Byzantine rulers and Christianity.

The move to seize land in the Negev desert is of 'security importance,' Israel's interior minister argues