{"id":63192,"date":"2021-04-15T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=63192"},"modified":"2021-04-15T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:40:10","slug":"731-reasons-why-i-love-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/731-reasons-why-i-love-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"73+1 Reasons Why I Love Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are imitations, but here is the original Jerusalem Post 17th straight year of new \u201cReasons I love Israel,\u201d even though 2020 was a year of challenges.<br \/>\nIn no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>1. Rappelling, spelunking and droning: Archaeologists rappelled into Dead Sea caves and recently found 2,000-year-old biblical texts of Prophets Zecharia and Nahum. Fighters in the Bar-Kochba revolt against the Romans likely treasured their parchments and hid them for safekeeping. The Israeli archaeologists also used cave-scouting drones in their search.<\/p>\n<p>2. According to tradition, the sandals the Israelites wore on the Exodus never wore out in their decades in the wilderness. Ancient sandals were also found in the caves.<\/p>\n<p>3. A-tisket a-tasket, the world\u2019s oldest basket, maybe 10,000 years old, was found by the cliff-rappelling archaeologists, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/731-reasons-why-i-love-israel-opinion-664569\">Continue reading at the Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there are imitations, but here is the original Jerusalem Post 17th straight year of new \u201cReasons I love Israel,\u201d even though 2020 was a year of challenges. In no particular order: 1. Rappelling, spelunking and droning: Archaeologists rappelled into Dead Sea caves and recently found 2,000-year-old biblical texts of Prophets Zecharia and Nahum. 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