Experts: Tombs found at Jaffa excavation site not Jewish

28.03.2011                      22.Adar ll, 5771

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Experts: Tombs found at Jaffa excavation site not Jewish

Announcement comes after examination of site revealed burials contained pig bones, allowing archaeologists to conclude they were not Jewish burials; excavation has been site of ultra-Orthodox demonstrations.

The Israel Antiquities Authority has established that the tombs uncovered in the area of the French Hospital near the Andromeda housing complex in Jaffa are not Jewish.

This was announced after an examination of the site revealed that the burials contained pig bones, allowing archaeologists to conclude that they were not Jewish burials….