The "mayor of underground Jerusalem"

INTERVIEW: Meet the man in charge of archaeology in Jerusalem. Yuval Baruch has headed the Jerusalem division at the Israel Antiquities Authority for over ten years (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post).

“Archaeology is not just an academic issue, it has to be part of the society, of the heritage, of the city’s life,” he concluded. “I think the way people are looking at it is completely changing.”

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