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Jewish ethnic divisions- threads👇🏼

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

1,900 year old Iron swords were found in a cave in the Judean Desert in Israel.
The iron swords were hidden by Jewish rebels during the revolt against the Roman Empire.

During the revolt, many rebels fled to the desert and hid weapons, coins and ancient writings.

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

Mawza Exile was the most traumatic event experienced by the Yemenite Jewish community which took the lives of 70% of the Jews (THREAD)

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Sad news

The bodies or Rut & Erik Perez have been found

Erik had brought his 17-year-old daughter to the music festival so that she could enjoy some fun with people her own age

Their family were hoping that they were held hostage by Hamas, but they were killed at the festival

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

This is not a scene from a horror movie.

This is a children's room at home in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. It will take a long time for the sights and smells in this whole area to disappear.

Photo by Kobi Richter/ Israel Fire & Rescue Authority

[Lance Forman @LanceForman]

Reports from the massacre in Israel. 🥲

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

My grandmother was forced out of Tunisia in 1951 with her children because she was Jewish.

She came to Israel.

Yesterday, hundreds of Tunisians burnt the el-Hamma Synagogue, reminding my family why we need a country of our own.

All that’s left from the synagogue:

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

Hanukkah is the most known Jewish holiday, what is the background behind the holiday and what are its customs? (THREAD)

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@BackCountryBH Yes! The scroll was discovered during an inspection of the Qumran caves with 15 more scrolls. To be specific, it was found in cave 3 out of 53 caves and was the last scroll to be discovered in that cave.

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

The treasure that was never found.

A scroll found in the Qumran cave in the 1950s and is believed to lead towards a great treasure of gold and silver, buried all across Jerusalem.

About the strange and mysterious scroll, The Copper Scroll 📜 (Thread)

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

Either way, the story of the scroll indicates the panic and fear that prevailed among the Jews at that time, and leaves us and the researchers with many questions.

[Jewish History @HistoricalJW]

If the treasure does exist, it may have already been found and used by various locals who found it hundreds of years ago, or it may be buried deep under established neighborhoods.