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First Person: Barred from the City of David

I have been writing about the City of David for more than 35 years. The major excavations of Yigal Shiloh between 1978 and 1985 were undertaken as a result of a book I wrote. In that sense, I created the site. So it is no small thing to me that General Shuka Dorfman, the current director of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), has instructed Ronny Reich, who codirects the current excavations near the Pool of Siloam with Eli Shukron, to bar me from the site.a Shuka, as everyone calls him, is mad at me. It has something to do […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, First Person: “Does the Israel Antiquities Authority Want to Destroy BAR?” BAR 33:06.

2.

André Lemaire, “Burial Box of James the Brother of Jesus,” BAR 28:06.

3.

See Hershel Shanks, “Sifting the Temple Mount Dump,” BAR 31:04.

4.

See Update: Finds or Fakes? “Israeli ‘James Bond’ Closes In on His Prey,” BAR 31:02, and Update: Finds or Fakes? “Major Scholars Protest Eshel Arrest,” BAR 32:02.