Thursday, May 25, 2006

THAT MODEL OF SECOND TEMPLE JERUSALEM has been moved to the Israel Museum and opens to the public on 12 June.
Second Temple Model moves to Israel Museum
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS (Jerusalem Post)

On a crest of Jerusalem's Hill of Tranquility
overlooking the Valley of the Cross, the Knesset, the Supreme Court, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the National Library, a model of the Second Temple has been relocated adjacent to the Shrine of the Book on the campus of the Israel Museum, in a spot where history and archeology intersect.

The Second Temple Model, which was located for the
last four decades since its construction in the mid 1960's on the grounds of Jerusalem's Holyland Hotel, was moved to the Israel Museum this winter due to the construction of a new residential complex on the slopes of the city's Holyland hill.

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