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Tour guide seminars: Silwan-City of David

One of the best and most challenging tours which Green Olive offers is our weekly Silwan-City of David tour. You can read more about the tour at this page. In the past month, Green Olive senior Israeli guide Yahav Zohar led two successful and challenging guide seminars around the archeological site and the largely Palestinian […]

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Housing demolitions

Housing demolitions are sadly a regular part of life to be contended with in East Jerusalem. But recently there have been some disturbing developments in an already disturbing field. This week at least 10 buildings (some reports say as many as 16) were demolished in in the Wadi Hummus area of Sur Baher, just to […]

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The Politics of Archaeology in Israel

By Miri – Much of Palestine’s/Israel’s appeal to tourists stems from it constituting the claimed historical site of many of the stories of the holy scriptures and tourists come in flocks to see the numerous excavation sites, many of which seem to confirm the narrative of the bible. But can the material remains that archaeologists […]

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