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You ask. Saladin answers (Ha'aretz)
By Irit Rosenblum


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The shows are part of the Caesarea Port Project to promote the site as an international tourism center. They offer a reenactment of events and figures in the ancient city and can handle some 3,000 visitors a day. The first screening room, in a refurbished building with Crusader foundations, shows a 10-minute film describing the changes Caesarea has undergone through different eras with the aid of animated segments and computerized imaging. The film depicts the site starting in the Herodian era, and then continues through the Byzantine, Crusader and Mameluke periods, up until the beginnings of Zionism and Baron Rothschild's settlement enterprise.

After this film, visitors continue to a room where one can see 3-D images of heroes of Caesarea's past - King Herod, Rabbi Akiva, Paul the Apostle, Saladin, Baron Rothschild, Hanna Szenesh and others. Visitors stand beside a control panel covered by a transparent screen on which the figures are screened. It is possible to converse with the heroes of the past, ask them questions (designated) and receive answers. The historical figures are played by modern-day public figures such as Alex Ansky (Herod), Oded Teomi (Baron Rothschild), Emmanuel Halperin (King Louis IX), Dina Doron (Hanna Senesh's mother) and Juliano Moore (Saladin).

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